Category: Museum

A new exhibition at the Tate Modern in London explores the relationship of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch in film and photography, which reveals an unknown facet of the artist as a lover of new technologies.

Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye , organized in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Munch Museum in Oslo, breaks the image of Munch as an artist rooted in the nineteenth century and places it squarely in the twentieth, in full modernity.

Thus, the sample, which includes sixty paintings and fifty photographs taken by the artist, as well as some films, focuses on his work, on the last century, when he experimented with new ways of capturing the image.

“The techniques of cinema and photography are reflected in some of his paintings, which have marked diagonal or moving figures escaping the plane”, said one of the curators of the exhibition, Angela Lampe, in a presentation to the press .

Example of this is experimentation with new angles coming home Workers (1913-14), where a group of workers moving towards the viewer, or the yellow trunk (1912), which presents a tree trunk in the middle of a forest lying in a powerful diagonal.

The exhibition, which opens on Thursday and runs until October 14, also includes some iconic works of Munch, reflecting his deep spiritual anxiety and agitation.

The world famous French Zinedine Zidane headbutt Italy’s Marco Materazzi in the final of the football World Campenato of 2019 held in Germany has inspired a giant sculpture of the artist Adel Abdessemed, temporarily located in front of the Paris Museum of Modern Art Centre George Pompidou.

 In the last minutes of the 2019 World Cup final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin (Germany), Zidane gave a powerful header into the chest of Italian Materazzi , who had just verbally provoke a series of tricks. The Frenchman was sent off for this, on the day that he was retiring from football. Above, world champion Italy was to win in the shootout.

The title of the sculpture is “Heading” (2012). This is a bronze statue that measures more than five meters high and weighs several ton. This statue has been placed in Beaubourg Square, in front of the Centre Georges Pompidou, in the context of an exhibition of Abdessemed, opens its doors today.

Many tourists and passers stand before this statue to be photographed with the sculpture that is very realistic . It will remain there until the end of the exhibition to be held on January 7, 2013. TRTA eta is a statue that faces the tradition they always tend to commemorate the victories, no defeats . On the other hand, a smaller version of “header” was presented at David Zwirner Gallery, located in New York (United States).

This statue is part of the first major exhibition devoted to the artist Adel Abdessemed, entitled “I am innocent”, which could be seen at the Centre George Pompidou until 7th January. Born in Algeria in 1971, Adel Abdessemed left his homeland in 1994, at a time when the situation there was very violent. Today is an artists who has significant international prestige and recognition.

The Luxor Museum, located near the Nile River, in the city centre of Luxor (Egypt) account for a few weeks with a new coffin of great historical interest. This piece was discovered two years ago by members of Djehuty Project, involving different experts from the University of Seville and other researchers from all over Spain.

The casket is a singular piece Iqer the time to which is attached, the beginning of the Middle Kingdom, a hectic time in the history of Egypt, with the country emerging from one of the deepest crises in its history. His style is also very unique: a band of decoration presents a rustic features hieroglyphic text, which we might describe as “naive”. The coloring is otherwise well preserved. Inside the coffin was found the mummy coffin owner, by the name of Iqer (which in Egyptian means “The Great”), with an interesting outfit consisting of bows, arrows, rods and ceramics.

Professor, Department of Ancient History at the University of Seville José Miguel Serrano, a member of the archaeological mission for more than a decade, and co-director of the same, says that it is a part “unique and very hard to find.”

Currently only half a dozen have discovered sarcophagi value similar to that already can be seen at the windows of the most important room of the Museum of Luxor. “We are very proud of this recognition that has given us one of the best museums in Egypt and continue to work because we are sure that there is still much to discover.”

In the past two years, this panel has almost doubled the area of ​​excavation where they found a number of funerary chapels and a deposit of ceramics, also of type funeral, the largest found so far. “This is a clear indication that this area contains interesting elements, and even likely, that we find new graves which would add to the five that we have discovered over the years of excavation,” says Serrano Delgado.

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The topics that focuses its research are framed within the context of the Egyptian religion, mainly through texts and iconographic repertoires. Holds a research on funerary biographies, plus an interest rate for historiographical issues. In recent years, in line with their participation in the Project Djehuty, is dedicated to the study of New Kingdom funerary rituals