Pablo Picasso, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, autumn 1910, 1910 LOANED BY THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ©COPYRIGHT: SUCCESSION PICASSO/DACS LONDON, 2016; 2015 ESTATE OF PABLO PICASSO/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS) NEW YORK
164 Annual Open Exhibition
RWA, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1PX October 9 to November 27
Picasso Portraits
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place London WC2H 0HE October 6 to February 5, 2017 A major exhibition, in association with the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, of 75 works by the artist in all media, ranging from well-known masterpieces to works that have never been shown in Britain before. Because Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1903) didn’t work to commission, he depicted people in his intimate circle and enjoyed exceptional freedom as a portraitist, working in different modes and many different styles. Formal posed portraits coexist with witty caricatures, classic drawings from life with expressive paintings created from memory, reflecting his understanding of the sitter’s identity and character. It includes the 1910 cubist portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art dealer and early champion of Picasso’s work, loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago.
Put October 9 in your calendar, and pencil “Bristol”. Now in its 164th year, the Royal West of England Academy’s selling exhibition (prices start at just £25) includes painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, illustration and architecture from UK and international artists, all competing for the Annual Open Exhibition Prize. Last year 593 works by 387 artists were selected from over 2,500 works by more than 1,000 artists, and the 2016 display is expected to be even larger. The invited artists are the internationally respected British artists Susan Derges (b 1955), whose stunning photographic works are achieved without a camera, and Royal Academician sculptor Tim Shaw (b 1964), whose work is often monumental, and politically motivated. The RWA 162 Annual Open Exhibition, 2014 PHOTO ©ALICE HENDY
Dalton M Ghetti, Giraffe PHOTO SLOAN HOWARD
Radical Crafts: Alternative Ways of Making Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend* September 10 to November 5
This touring* exhibition by 37 artists includes pieces by historically renowned artists associated with the ‘Outsider Art’ genre and contemporary artists, many of whom are self-taught, who see themselves as facing barriers to the art world for reasons including health, disability, social circumstance or isolation; 21 of whom have been selected from open submissions. It includes Brazilian born American artist Dalton M Ghetti’s extreme miniature forms sculpted into discarded pencil leads, Finnish Erkki Pekkarinen’s folkloric life size woven birch bark figures and German artist Julia Krause-Harder’s large mixed media dinosaurs. * 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe (Nov 19-Jan 28, 2017); Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle (Feb 11, 2017 to Mar 26); The Barony Centre, West Kilbride(Apr 8, 2017 to Jun 10);Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Jun 24, 2017 to Sep 2); Walford Mill, Dorset (Sep 16, 2017 to Nov 12).
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