DOP Foundation
The D.O.P. Foundation is a non-profit institution with spaces and documentary archives. It's headquarters are located in Paris (France), Madrid (Spain), Miami (U.S.A.) and Caracas (Venezuela). They operate as an educational and lending resource for modern and contemporary art. The Foundation is dedicated to building a collection that reflects the scope and diversity of contemporary art.
Description[edit]
The foundation facilitates museums in presenting modern and contemporary art in a complex economic and cultural environment. Works in its collection (D.O.P. Collection or Colección D.O.P.) are available for loan to museums and university galleries.
The Foundation provides art professionals and scholars the opportunity to view, study, and consider the collection’s artworks for exhibitions worldwide. Since 1999, their artworks have appeared in exhibitions in nearly 50 museums, universities, web sites and other public venues, which are viewed by approximately one million people per year.
The main educational initiatives of the D.O.P. Foundation are: The D.O.P. Collection, the Lending Library Programme and its ArteDOP/ArtDOP Educational Initiative. These initiatives are aimed at achieving excellence in education through exhibitions, grant & scholarship programs and activities that allow direct access for individuals and communities.[citation needed]
Exhibitions[edit]
The exhibitions change often.
Some exhibitions on D.O.P. Foundation:
- 2009 : Arturo Herrera - "Ruinas Circulares" - José Antonío Hernández Diez en la Colección D.O.P. -
- 2010 : Cy Twombly - "Grey Paintings" - Alejandro Otero - " Presence and Color at the D.O.P. Foundation" -
- 2011 : Jesús Rafael Soto - " Abstraction, Pasión & Mouvement" - Nobuyoshi Araki - "Desire Objects" - Maria Fernanda Cardoso - "Appearance and Content" - Chema Madoz - "Metamorphosis of Thought" - Robert Longo - "A Short Fiction"
- 2012 : Still:Life /Naturaleza:Muerta (Includes work by Sam Taylor-Wood and Vik Muniz) - Abstraction and Geometry from Southern Cone (include works by Rogelio Polesello, Fernando Maza, J.A. Fernandez Muro and others)- Ramsés Larzábal - "Ser, To Be, Être" - Paul Signac - "L´Olympe: Impressions intimes d´une âme errante" - Alberto Asprino - "Antropometrías Indelebles" - Omer Fast - "Omer Fast artworks from the D.O.P. Collection"
- 2013 : The Landscape. Contemporary & Cutting Edge (Includes work by Jean-Marc Bustamante, Vik Muniz, Nayland Blake, Nicholas Hakebourne and others) - Tony Oursler - "Tony Oursler artworks from the D.O.P. Collection"
- 2014: "ZERO Exhibition" (in collaboration with) Fundação Iberê Camargo,[1] Museu Oscar Niemeyer[2] y Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.- "Deconstruction & Postmodernism - Session I" (Includes work by Jeff Koons, Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Desire Obtain Cherish) - Sigfredo Chacón Artworks from The D.O.P. Collection" - "Framing (Enmarcando a) Gerd Leufert" (in collaboration with Sala TAC)[3] -
- 2015: "Vik Muniz" - MOMA Equivalents - Fundación D.O.P. (D.O.P. Foundation), Caracas, Venezuela. - "POP" Peña - Obregón - Perna (in collaboration with Odalys Galería) [4] - "Oswaldo Vigas - Witches y Personages".
- 2016: "Crying Man Series by Sam Taylor-Johnson at D.O.P. Collection" - Roberto Obregón "Collages" - "Gego: Autobiography of a line" (in collaboration with Dominique Levy Gallery). - "The Delightfully Bizarre World Of Contemporary Ceramics".
References[edit]
- ↑ Von den Valentyn, Heike (2013). Museu Oscar Niemayer, Iberê Camargo Foundation & Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, ed. Zero. Museu Oscar Niemeyer. pp. 92, 221, 227, 228, 230. ISBN 978-856063837-6. Search this book on
- ↑ "Zero". Artnexus. 13 (92): 120, 121, 122. 2014.
- ↑ Auerbach, Ruth (2014). T.A.C. Trasnocho Arte Contacto, ed. Enmarcando a Gerd Leufert. pp. 32, 37, 46. ISBN 9789806654433. Search this book on
- ↑ Odalys Ediciones de Arte, ed. (2015). POP (Peña, Obregón, Perna). pp. 3, 66, 67, 68, 71, 75. ISBN 978-84-608-1307-1. Search this book on
- [1][permanent dead link], page 7, ISBN 978-980-6416-27-7 Search this book on .
Rolando G. Marrero (Aug. 22, 2012) "Fundacion D.O.P. expone obras de Paul Signac" - Arte en la Red
TAL CUAL (Aug.08, 2011) Yohana Silveira "Erotismo y Muerte en Fundacion D.O.P." Caracas, Back cover,
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