Surrealism goes global, artists open their studios and Damien Hirst shows a macabre master – the week in art

Exhibition of the week

Surrealism Past Borders
An bold try and see surrealism not simply as one thing that occurred in Paris, Belgium and Spain however as a world motion with branches from Egypt to Mexico.
Tate Trendy, London, 24 February to 29 August.

Additionally displaying

A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020
How artists create their very own caves of creativity, from Picasso to Walead Beshty and Kerry James Marshall.
Whitechapel Artwork Gallery, London, 24 February to 29 June.

Carlo Crivelli: Shadows on the Sky
This very likeble Renaissance artist who crammed his work with fruit, whatever the event, will get a present at a gallery normally devoted to the modern.
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 23 February to 29 Could.

David Nash: Full Circle
The sculptor reveals his drawings and watercolours of timber and nature.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 19 February to five June.

Keith Cunningham: The Cloud of Witness
Damien Hirst displays macabre and melancholy works by a lesser-known Faculty of London painter.
Newport Road Gallery, London, till 21 August.

Picture of the week

The Burrell Collection exterior image at night
The Burrell Assortment exterior picture at night time Photograph: Shepherd/Copyright (c) CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collections

After a five-year, £68m renovation, the distinctive and prized Seventies constructing housing the majestic and considerable Burrell Assortment in Pollok Nation Park, Glasgow, is now extra spacious and visitor-friendly – however at a value to its authentic design, argues Rowan Moore within the Observer. “In vital methods it’s higher than earlier than,” he writes, “nevertheless it has grow to be a bit of extra regular.” Learn the complete evaluate right here.

What we realized

Daniel Lismore is a dwelling sculpture

Graphic designer Klaus Staeck’s posters attacked automotive tradition

French artwork impressed Disney animators

Tate Britain’s “unequivocally offensive” Whistler mural could have new work alongside it

… whereas references to Van Gogh’s psychological well being in souvenirs at a London’s Courtauld Gallery have drawn criticism

Landmark postage stamp designer David Gents has been recognised with a set in his honour

The LensCulture Artwork images awards 2022 push boundaries

“I don’t wish to have my life in management. I by no means go to the studio,” says artist Marina Abramović

Empty retailers might be studios for the subsequent Bacon or Hirst, says the Whitechapel Gallery’s director

Nigerian artist Ekene Stanley Emecheta removes pores and skin color and limits from his work

Masterpiece of the week

The Death of Eurydice by Niccolò dell’Abate about 1552-71
The Dying of Eurydice by Niccolò dell’Abate about 1552-71 Photograph: The Nationwide Gallery, London

The Dying of Eurydice by Niccolò dell’Abate, c 1552-71
Whereas the poet Orpheus hypnotises wild beasts together with his lyre, his spouse, Eurydice, is chased by a shepherd known as Aristaeus, will get bitten by a snake, and dies. The traditional fable of Eurydice’s demise, and its eerie aftermath when Orpheus tries to avoid wasting her from Hades, anticipates the surrealists with its imagery of need, demise and the underworld. Its most lovely fashionable telling is Jean Cocteau’s movie Orphée. This portray is a type of prehistory of Cocteau’s imaginative and prescient because it reveals how the parable of Orpheus got here to France: Niccolò dell’Abate was certainly one of a bunch of Italian artists employed by the French monarchy at Fontainebleau, who injected a sensual classicism into French tradition. In fact, we see the figures right here as a parade of cavorting our bodies and barely discover the story in opposition to the huge, blue, dreamy panorama.
Nationwide Gallery, London

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