Art Bites

An exhibition of paintings by Nashvillebased filmmaker and artist Harmony Korine will be on view at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts from November 4, 2016, to January 16, 2017. Korine, who is best known as the filmmaker/auteur of such films as Kids, Gummo, Trash Humpers, and Spring Breakers, is also an accomplished painter, having shown works in museums throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and Japan, since 1999. The twelve large and dynamic works of Shadows and Loops have the improvisatory spirit of outsider art and share some of the disruptive qualities of his films. Seen together, the crudely painted figures, shadowy sublayers, and psychedelic looping patterns of the paintings offer up an environment of alienated weirdness, with an emphasis on raw expression and impulsivity rather than intellectual clarity. “His figurative works have the spontaneity of old-school graffiti, with patches of color, rough textural elements, and random marks developed into characters ...

On November 22th, Christie’s Paris will organise a thematic sale dedicated to Rembrandt Bugatti. This sale will commemorate the 100 years anniversary of the artist’s death and the new edition of Véronique Fromanger’s monography on the artist. The 17 lots offered in this sale will pay tribute to this remarkable artist, including exceptional pieces selected from the collection of Alain Delon. Véronique Fromanger: “In celebration of the centenary of Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916) Christie’s Paris presents at auction seventeen of the artist’s sculptures. The subjects, in bronze and in marble, include several big cats, birds, a group of yaks, an elephant and three gazelles, a gasping deer, a resting dog, and three female figures – all cast by one of the greatest founders of all time, Adrien Aurélien Hébrard. The present, unique assembly of collections, brought together by Christie’s, Paris, embraces every aspect of Rembrandt Bugatti’s creativity, both in the stylistic range of the subje...