Rona Pondick’s work, Head in Tree, is Exhibited in Nasher Sculpture Center

Head in Tree, 2006-2008, Stainless Steel, 266.7 x 106.7 x 94 cm｜105 x 42 x 37 inches, Antonio Homem, Antonio Homem, Promised gift to the Nasher Sculpture Center

Exhibition

Rona Pondick was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952. Since 1984 she has had many solo exhibitions of her work in museums and galleries internationally. Her sculptures have been included in over 200 group exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of many institutions worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); Centre Pompidou (Paris) and others. One of her work, Head in Tree in 2006-2008, is exhibited by the Nasher Sculpture Center,  US recently. The Nasher Sculpture Center located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District, and is one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary sculptures in the world where featuring more than 300 masterpieces by Calder, de Kooning, di Suvero, Giacometti, Hepworth, Kelly, Matisse, Miró, Moore, Picasso, Rodin, Serra and more.

Rona Pondick's Selected Works Will Be Exhibited by American Academy of Arts and Letters

Image Credit: Rona Pondick's official website

The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898 as an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers, and writers. Early members include famous impressionist painter William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, writer Mark Twain, Edith Wharton and many more. The Academy seeks to foster and sustain an interest in Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts by administering over 70 awards and prizes, exhibiting art and manuscripts, funding performances of new works of musical theater, and purchasing artwork for donation to museums across the country.

From March 5 through Sunday, April 5, 2020, paintings, sculptures, video, photographs, and works on paper by 28 contemporary artists will be exhibited in the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on historic Audubon Terrace. The Exhibiting artists were chosen from over 150 nominees submitted by the members of the Academy. Nunu Fine Art’s represented artist Rona Pondick is very honored to be among the 28 artists. Besides catching the sight of the artist’s desires of pursuing the knowledge and understanding the universe, the visitors may also experience the experimental courage and the charming variety in her sculpture.

Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin 2020

Taiwanese Artist Hsu Che-Yu's "Single Copy" Exhibited in Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin 2020

Image: Single Copy, Single channel video, FRP sculpture, 21'17''，2019，1/6+2AP

This year's "Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin" will be held in the Louvre, the Grand Palace and the Pompidou Centre in Paris, France. As the European benchmark video art platform, "Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin" is dedicated to the contemporary practice and critical reflection of moving images. Filmmakers, contemporary / digital artists, scholars, guest curators, supervisors of cultural Institutions and of emerging organizations will gather together, using multiple forms of participation such as debates, round tables, forums, project-based creations, etc., in an attempt to construct a polysemous performance towards the educational turn, as a vagrancy of heterogeneous media which is open to the public. 

Hsu Che-Yu, the Taiwanese artist who won the ”HUGO BOSS Asia Art Award for emerging Asian artist” in 2019, is more honored to be invited to exhibit his work “Single Copy”. He hybridized the image projection with the sculptural form, and used his unique and ridiculous representational method to convey the alienated visual language, and further performed the open interpretation of social events and artistic events.

Peter Zimmermann’s Catalog is produced by Nunu Fine Art and Leopold-Hoesch-Museum

Image: Peter Zimmermann’s latest catalog “Abstractness”

Nunu Fine Art cooperated with Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in Düren, Germany to produce our represented artist Peter Zimmermann’s latest catalog “Abtractness”.  In this catalog, we can see Peter Zimmermann started his art career by expressing how the images open up the access to the world but also limit our perception with his epoxy resin paintings of Michelin and Polyglott travel guides. Discovering on how the images form our relationship to art and how new representational possibilities shape our imagination, we may also get a glimpse on his reflection on the development of digital media and the associated multiplication in the early 1990s.

In order to create more opportunities for people getting the access to appreciate Peter Zimmermann’s works and to know the concept behind them, it is a delight for Nunu Fine Art to support Leopold-Hoesch-Museum producing this publication, which brings together Zimmermann ‘s early works and a selection of current productions.  

Petah Coyne is lecturing at the Frost Art Museum in Miami

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is one of the largest academic art museums in South Florida, providing the community with free access to world-class art that spans cultures and time periods. The Frost Art Museum’s permanent collection includes over 6,000 objects with a strong representation of American printmaking from the 1960s and 1970s, photography, pre-Columbian objects dating from 200-500 AD, and a growing number of works by contemporary artists, especially from Latin American and Caribbean countries.

This is the 15th annual Breakfast in the Park, an official Art Basel Miami Beach event. Each year since 2004, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum has welcomed guests to enjoy a complimentary breakfast, a lecture by a noted sculptor, and guided tours of our Sculpture Park and exhibitions. Contemporary sculptor and photographer Petah Coyne will be the featured speaker this year. Known for her elaborately detailed assemblages that hang from ceilings and erupt from the floor, Coyne uses molten wax, silk flowers, sumptuous fabric, and pristine taxidermy to create works that evoke gothic narratives and the excess of the Rococo.

Coyne’s work can be found in numerous permanent museum collections, including MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and many more. She is also the recipient of numerous prestigious national awards, including The Rockefeller Foundation Award, three National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, among others.

Ana Teresa Barboza will be in the Residence Program in Australian Tapestry Workshop

樹中之環｜Rings in Tree Trunks

掛毯、刺繡於布料及棉線｜Tapestry, embroidery on cloth with cotton threads，150 x 90 cm｜59 x 35.4 inches，2015

Established in 1976, Australian Tapestry Workshop is regarded as the most famous workshop and creating institution in the international hand-woven tapestry industry. Australian Tapestry Workshop is dedicated in promoting the art of woven tapestries. For the purpose of reserve and innovate the traditional textile culture, Australian Tapestry Workshop uses the same techniques employed since the 15th century, at the same time, it collaborates with contemporary artists, architects and designers actively, such as the architect of Sydney Opera House, Jorn Utzon, British abstract artist, Patrick Heron and the leading Australian painter, Arthur Boyd. Although the resurgence in the art of contemporary tapestry continues to grow worldwide, the Australian Tapestry Workshop remains deeply committed to its role as an international leader and produces exhibition in Australian. Furthermore, the tapestries that is produced by Australian Tapestry Workshop is collected by public and private institution, such as the National Gallery of Australia, Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne and Parliament House and so on. The Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza who is going to be in Nunu Fine Art's exhibition "Fear No More, Says the Heart: Female Artists Group Exhibition" in this month is invited to be in a residence program in Australian Tapestry Workshop. Barboza's works often combine traditional textile and other medias such as panting and photography. This creating concept happens to match with Australian Tapestry Workshop's development idea. Thus , the traditional textile is given the element of contemporary innovation.

Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan's work, is Exhibited in Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival 2019

艾佛雷多和伊莎貝爾．阿奎禮贊的裝置藝術作品｜Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan's installation artwork

圖片來源 Image Credit：Yavuz Gallery

Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival 2019 establish a unique exhibition format over past years with its use of the sea—Busan's definitive natural environment—as its venue. The Sea Art Festival is going to look back on nature and ecology co-existing with humankind, attempting with its 2019 edition to reflect concerns about nature and ecology that have recently become major issues throughout the world. Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival 2019 will not only broaden the environmental issues into the realms of the individual, society, and humankind but will also examine the hidden scars underneath. 20 artists and artist teams from 12 countries will present 21 artworks. Including Filipino artists, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, who are going to attend this art festival  with their unique installation art.

Rona Pondick's Work, Dog, is Exhibited in Remai Modern

狗 | Dog

羅娜．龐迪克 Rona Pondick，黃色不鏽鋼 | Yellow stainless steel，71.12 x 41.91 x 81.28 cm | 28 x 16.5 x 32 inches，1998-2001

圖片來源 Image Credit：雷米現代藝術館 Remai Modern

Remai Modern are going to present The Sonnabend Collection on 5th October, 2019 to 22nd March, 2020. Developed through the vision of influential art dealer Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) her husband Michael Sonnabend (1900-2001), and their adopted son Antonio Homem, the Collection is among the most significant private holdings of modern and contemporary art in the world.

Through their galleries in Paris and New York, the Sonnabends established an international presence, fostering creative exchanges and new audiences for American artists in Europe and vice versa. Often, they championed artists early in their careers. They anticipated and influenced developments in art including Pop, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Nouveau Réalisme, Arte Povera, Neo-Expressionism, Neo-Geo, Photo Conceptualism and beyond. Above all, they believed deeply in artists.

The Sonnabend Collection at Remai Modern features over 100 works by 67 artists. Including the American artist, Rona Pondick, who once collaborated with Nunu Fine Art. Her work, "Dog" will be exhibited on the show. The Sonnabend Collection will exhibit artworks that spans seven decades of artistic production. This will be the Collection's first exposure in Canada, and its most comprehensive presentation to date in North America.  

Peter Zimmermann Solo Exhibition at Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany

Peter Zimmermann's latest work series is currently presented at Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany. As one of the representative contemporary artists, he often combines complex image algorithms with media such as epoxy, acrylic and oil paint. In fact, the abstract works are actually created with digital patterns, and then he emulates the patterns with hundreds of brushstrokes layer by layer. Zimmemann is also constantly trying new media. In addition to his highly recognizable epoxy paintings, this solo exhibition presents his animated piece of video art that illustrates the production process of all his works undergo. Besides, there is also a long frieze that looks like a 3-D wall object made from stickers running though the entire exhibition. The grand retrospective occupies a total of eleven gallery spaces, showing a variety of media and together constructs an overall creative conception.

Ari exhibits in Esplanade Theatres On The Bay, Singapore

The Face, Charcoal on paper, 130 x 150 cm｜51 x 59 inches, 2018

Montreal based Indonesian artist Ari Bayuaji is going to present ’Self Portrait' which is a commissioned project by 'Esplanade Theatres On The Bay' Singapore. The art installation constructed with the sculpture, drawing, and painting works located in 98 meters long tunnel that connected the main building with The City Link. The show will be opened on January 17, 2019.

Ting Ting Cheng participates in the exhibition “A Tree Fell in the Forest, and No One's There” in Emerging Curators Project 2018

Photo credit to Artist & South Ho

Since its inception in 2014, the Power of Art’s Emerging Curators Project has now grown to be the contemporary art museum’s annual academic undertaking, whose mission is to explore present-day meanings of art exhibition as well as new possibilities of curation. On the display of one of the winning curatorial plans “A Tree Fell in the Forest, and No One’s There,” Hong Kong artist Ting Ting Cheng presented her artworks, which the themes focus on personal observations and memorial reimaginations. Curated by André Chan and Jing CY Chong, the exhibition title originates from an ancient philosophical conundrum – is the observed reality confined to people’s sum of available perceptions but not the totality of the material noumenon? Artists produce their artworks in the process reiterate the way they understand the world. The resulting works thus are the product of the linkage between personal cognition and reality, demonstrating the artists’ system of thinking and expression.

Petah Coyne is honored by the Bruce Museum

Untitled #1408 (The Lost Landscape), 2015-18

Petah Coyne receives the artist's honor from the Bruce Museum's 10th Icon Awards in the Arts. The Bruce Museum's Icon Awards in the Arts recognizes the contributions of distinguished figures in the art world who enrich the cultural life of the community. Coyne was also recently inducted into National Academy of Design, one of the highest honors in American art and architecture that is earned through nomination.

Director Bill Page filmed a documentary film for Rodney Dickson

Left: Rodney Dickson, Right: Bill Page

 New York director Bill Page shot a documentary film for Rodney Dickson lately. In this documentary, Dickson told Page that his creation motive is not about telling stories but sharing the inside self. When the “Aura” comes to his mind, it doesn’t lead him to shape the concrete topics and objects but to respond the fleeting ideas and feelings. If viewers are willing to spend time on the artworks, their lives may somehow be modified during the appreciation and meditation. More real than the so-called Realism, Dickson believes the technique he adopted can strikes one’s mind and brings views the profound purification.

The premiere of the documentary film will be held in January 2019 at the same time when the solo exhibition of Rodney Dickson is in display. We sincerely invite all of you to come around.

Ari Bayuaji on show in The Stewart Museum, Montreal

Bayuaji’s work on progress of sculptures that are going to be suspended from the ceiling as an art installation.

Ari Bayuaji is in the midst of the preparation for the exhibition in Montreal, Canada, presenting in March next year. Different from the past projects using mixed media to present, in this exhibition, Bayuaji uses wood as a main media, and matches some old ready-made objects, such as marble base, ceramics and even wood components that are painted and hand-cut on their surface. It is expected to exhibit six sculptures, four wall sculptures, two large installation artworks, two paintings, four photography works, and a video installation.

It is worth mentioning that, curator Iris Amizlev also invites Chinese Canadian visual artist Hua Jin to exhibit with Bayuaji in "Flowers and Monsters" exhibition. Jin’s works focuses on a worldview that embraces the concept of transience: of time, of life, and of everyday objects. Although both artists have settled in Montreal for a long time, the content of their creations have not been fully westernized, so we can still expect to see the oriental philosophy between different medias in the exhibition.

Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan participate in Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, Chengdu

 “Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence”, opening on November 2 in Chengdu, in south-west China, in collaboration with Centre Pompidou, France and Mao Jihong Arts Foundation. Presenting artworks and programs by 60 artists and groups, as well as philosophers, sociologists, writers, architects, and musicians. In the title of “Enlarged Intelligence”, exploring ecology, technology, and envisioning how we today may draw on intelligent technologies to advance social values. Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan who are known to Nunu Fine Art friends are presenting a specially-commissioned installation based from their “In-Habit: Project Another Country” series. As usual they invite Chengdu residents to participate in the creation, using 200 pieces of paper and 100 cartons to build a “future city” within 7200 seconds. Each small house made by the participants will eventually be grouped together by the Aquilizans creatinga city that gathers the participants’ imagination. In the view of Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, the future city should not be in single form, in addition to the alienation of high-rise buildings and straight avenues, the human homeland also needs an ecological community that can communicate and co-exist.

Making of "The Garden" by Peter Zimmermann

Hallmark, the biggest greeting card company in the world, is also known as its dedication to collecting artworks for more than 60 years. This time, Hallmark company is pleased to commission Peter Zimmermann, a famous contemporary artist from Germany to create a gigantic epoxy installation in the length of 14 meters. The documentary records the whole process of the creation. And, the artwork ends up to be Hallmark’s permanent collection.

Peter Zimmermann at Hallmark Collection

Photo credit to Peter Zimmermann’s website

Hallmark, the biggest greeting card company in the world, is also recognized for its art collection which leads an established history for over sixty years. With the guidance of current curator, Hallmark Art Collection commissioned Peter Zimmermann, whose works have been admired worldwide, to create an epoxy installation in length of 14 meters as their permanent collection. The installation of the work has just been done. 

Kees Goudzwaard participates in the Magical Riso 2018

基斯・古祖瓦德工作室｜Kees Goudzwaard’s studio

Nunu Fine Art is pleased to announce one of our new artists Kees Goudzwaard is invited to participate in the Magical Riso 2018, which is going to exhibit at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands from November 16 to December 23, 2018.

Magical Riso takes place in Netherlands is an influential Art Biennale in the global art scene. Every two years, the Magical Riso presents different themes and installation. This year, the artists will focus on a new art agenda - The Art of Forgetting. As tradition, after the discussion and creation by the participants, the art works and conclusion will be displayed during the show. This year, following his own practice Dutch artist Kees Goudzwaard will complete a large-scale printmaking masterpiece in Magical Riso exhibition.

（https://www.janvaneyck.nl/nieuws/magical-riso-2018/)

Duration：2018 / 11 / 16 – 2018 / 12 / 23

Rona Pondick's〈Granite Bed〉 is in permanent collection at Yale University

Rona Pondick who is expected to have an exhibition in Nunu Fine. Her work was invited by the Yale University New Haven Campus in Connecticut and will be permanently on display in the campus. This piece is located just two blocks away from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library which features a Noguchi Sculpture Garden, and not far from Alexander Calder's Gallows and Lollipops.
　　　　
In this work, Rona fills the entire surface with the handwritten text "I want" to express human pursuit of desire: "Wanting" is a fundamental wish, a desire that propels us in life. Our wanting is drawn from both deep and shallow emotions, and desires, that exerts a profound influence on all facets of human behavior. I want what? Another person? To eat? Money? Power?........ To want is the foundation; the building block of human emotions. But once the words "I want" are taken out of context, how do we attach meaning to them? You think you know what wanting is. But do we? What are the objects of desire? What is desire itself?” The dedication for the building and sculpture will take place on September 20th, 2018. When it's finished, Nunu Fine Art’s friends are welcome to visit.
　　　　
羅娜・龐迪克，〈花崗岩床〉，1998，黑色印度花崗岩，92.71 x 91.44 x 670.56 cm
Rona Pondick, 〈Granite Bed〉, 1998, Black Indian granite, 36.5 x 36 x 264"

Thailand Biennale Karabi 2018:Edge of the Wonderland

In the “Thailand Biennale Karabi 2018” artist shortlist, artists cooperated with Nunu Fine Art including art group—Vertical Submarine that made the exhibition “John Martin: The butcher and the surgeon,” artists Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, who had been working closely with us in “The Left Wings Project in Taiwan”, and artist Ben Rivers, who made the film “What Means Something” of artist Rose Wylie, are going to display their artworks in Krabi, Thailand from November this year to February next year. 
　　　　
As the most important international exhibition in Thailand, the first Thailand Biennale is coming soon at Krabi’s outdoor venues. “Edge of the Wonderland” is this year’s biennale theme. Like the renowned story “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,” the land connects to our everyday reality and yet, it’s special atmosphere and aura makes us fall into a world of fantasy and imaginary. Located in Thailand’s border, as if Krabi is the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland, creating a boundary between reality and illusion, real and imaginary, material and spirit, and known and unknown. “Thailand Biennale Karabi 2018” will at the same time promote this wonderland in Andaman Sea as a world art city.
　　　　
In the four months exhibition, Thailand Biennale encourages creative strategies and innovative practices for site-specific installations. Different from the static structure, the biennale’s exhibition space varies from one day to another depends on weather and environment condition. Artists’ artworks are also based on the theme “Edge of the Wonderland,” and combined Krabi’s unique landscapes and exhibition forms. The first Thailand biennale is a cutting-edge exploration driven by visual practice, and a new way of thinking, providing opportunities for nature and art to meet together, and at the same time let us start our creative and imaginative trip from “Edge of the Wonderland.”

http://thailandbiennale.org/en_US/