A year has gone by since his departure, the Metropolitan art Museum di New York celebrates Alexander McQueen with an outstanding retrospective. “Savage Beauty” sets out to honero the scottish stylist’s extraordinary contribution to last century fashion: nearly 200 of his outfits and accessories sheding light on the artist’s career, spanning from the first collecction in 1992 to the last catwalk, posthumous, in February 2010.

A real master who would find in fashion his ultimate way to shape hos

own world, McQueen touched fashion design boundaries off, to inglobe in it also a conceputal rapprrsentation of culture, politics, and nationalidentity. By portioning Mc Queens’ career trajectoring accordig to major themes, the exhibit identifies the milestones of his “poetics”, which transpires in his collections over time: from a stressed esotism to the fascination for gothic and the tark side of ordinary things; again, from nature seen as a reservoir where to find intuitions and materials, to the historical and cultural honor of his own scottish roots.

met 2011 SPRING EXHIBITS

ALEXANDER MAC QUEEN: A JOURNEY

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SUNDARAM TAGORE GALLERY, NEW YORK

Susan Weil’s fans will surely appraise her solo held in Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Chelsea, NewYork,. In “Reflections” the viewer will recognize some of her latest deeds: tri-dimentional paintings which made of mirrors, wooden veneers, coated plexiglas and collages.

Susan Weil is undoubtly one of the most bold an innovative artists in the contemporary american panorama. Since her arrival in New York, in the far ‘50s, she has been contributing to the artistic boom of the city, together with Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning, sticking out of the crowd of her post-war collegues by virtue of a quiet unconventionality. Pivotal in her works is the relationship between the images and the intangible qualities of time. Her shapes may be faceted, chopped, provisionally put back together: the result is never chaos and dissonance, but instead fluid movements and harmony.

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MOMA MUSEUM OF NEW YORK

Humour and reflection are the code of Francis Alys exhibit at Modern Art Museum of New York. Born in Belgium in 1959 and emigrated now to Mexico City,Alys makes large use of both peoetry and allegory to handle complex and crucial themes of contemporary times:

national boundaries, globalisation, sustainability, economic cycles and urbanisation.

Encompassing video editing, photography, drawing and performance), its multi-faceted body of works reflects primarly on the crisis and development of South America in the last 25 years. With the firm belief that the human destiny consists in seeking forever something that will never be achievable, Alys put in place actions which hint at the process of progressing and regressing and honor our perseverance, such as chasing a tornado in the desert or recruiting hundreds of volounteers in order to “move” a sand dune. A meditation on human condition which can echo the famous motto bySamuel Beckett: “You have always tried, you have always failed. It doesn’t matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better”.