Francesca Woodman, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work since Woodman's untimely death in 1981 at the age of 22, will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum through June 13, 2012. Spanning the breadth of her production, the exhibition includes more than 120 vintage photographs, artist books, and a selection of recently discovered and rarely seen short videos, presenting a historical reconsideration of Woodman’s brief but extraordinary career.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents Projects 97: Mark Boulos, the New York premiere of the artist’s video installation All That Is Solid Melts into Air (2008), on view through July 16, 2012.
The Museum of Costume. CIPE (Madrid, Spain) hosts the exhibition Haute Couture on paper. Illustrations by Pedro Rodríguez (1940-1976), dedicated to highlight the Spanish designer's creative process. The show features an extensive collection of original small and large format illustrations in chronological order, a series that reflects not only the work of Pedro Rodriguez but the savoir-faire of haute couture houses in the so-called Golden Age of Spanish haute couture.
The research project on the drawings of Gustav Klimt took its first steps in 1963, starting with the comprehensive Klimt collection of the Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria), now on view until June 10, 2012.
The Kunsthaus Zürich (Switzerland) showcases the politically charged work of Mexican artists. The exhibition begins with graphic plates by José Guadalupe Posada, one of the most important artists and caricaturists in 19th-century Mexico. His motto – 'art against violence' – has lost none of its topicality and continues to guide the work of his present-day successors.