Welcome to Week in Review, our Sunday round-up of the last 7 days of activity here at Contemporary Art Daily.
This week’s featured exhibitions:
Bernd and Hilla Becher at Konrad Fischer
Oscar Tuazon at Kunsthalle Bern
Ann Veronica Janssens at Alfonso Artiaco
Thomas Eggerer at Daniel Buchholz
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Dia at the Hispanic Society
Tony Just …

Tuscan art
Writers and poets have tried their best to describe the wonders and beauty of Tuscany. Their words are, for the most part, insufficiently shallow. But where the pen has failed, the eye and the brush reveal what can only be captured through the lines and form of color. Only …

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Published online 5 Mar 10

The Art …

Artist: Thomas Eggerer
Venue: Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
Exhibition Title: Fence Romance
Date: February 5 – April 17, 2010
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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin

Press Release:
Thomas Eggerer’s new paintings feature figures in ambivalent spaces that are both expansive …

Artist: Ann Veronica Janssens
Venue: Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Date: February 12 – March 23, 2010
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Full gallery of images and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Link: Ann Veronica Janssens at Alfonso Artiaco
Tags: Alfonso Artiaco, Ann Veronica Janssens, Europe, Italy, Naples
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The …

Artist: Oscar Tuazon
Venue: Kunsthalle Bern
Date: February 13 – April 25, 2010
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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Kunsthalle Bern. Photos by Dominique Uldry.

Press Release:
Radical interventions in the exhibition-galleries of Kunsthalle Bern were manifest in recent exhibition …

Artists: Bernd and Hilla Becher
Venue: Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
Exhibition Title: Wassertürme, Kühltürme, Gasbehälter, Kohlebunker
Date: January 22 – March 13, 2010
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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf
Press Release:
We are very pleased to present now in Düsseldorf …

Painting is a term applied to the deliberate application of paint to a surface, whether for decoration and protection of that surface, or in order to create an image upon that surface.
Many attempts have been made since the late 20th Century to define what painting is, partly for the threat …

Drawing has a number of primary functions that differ according to the intended outcome. Primarily, drawing is seen to be any form of marking a surface with a view to creating a two-dimensional image.
Common tools used for drawing upon a two-dimensional surface include pencil, coloured pencils, graphite, charcoal, compressed charcoal, …

Drawing and painting are about observing, seeing and communicating information. At one time drawing and painting were the most advanced ways of communicating data from one person to another! For this reason ’seeing’ and interpreting the world is at the heart of learning to draw and paint. The eyes and, …