Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (BGFA) in Las Vegas announced today that it will debut its next exhibit, “A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney” on April 16. Through a juxtaposition of images, “A Sense of Place” will present more than 30 artworks ranging from paintings, photographs and a video installation that contrast and compare both approach and expressionism in art. The exhibit will showcase landscapes by artists including Claude Monet, Marc Chagall, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo, Vik Muniz and many others.From Monet’s impressionistic haystacks painted in 1885 to Muniz’s carefully rendered pigment prints created in 2006, precise representational paintings will be placed alongside austere abstract works in order to reveal how landscape has been portrayed by artists throughout history.
“A natural follow-up to the successful figurative exhibition currently at Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art through March 27, ‘A Sense of Place’ explores another subject matter synonymous with art: landscapes,” said Tarissa Tiberti, director of BGFA. “The pieces we’ve curated for this collection truly complement one another and together they create a thorough exploration of landscape art.”
“A Sense of Place” is organized in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and includes selections from the MGM Resorts International Fine Art Collection.
Malcolm Rogers, director of MFA, said “The exhibition at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art is set to offer a superb stylistic range of landscapes. We are delighted to share treasures by Millet, Monet, Hockney, Lichtenstein and so many others from the MFA’s encyclopedic collection with new audiences.”
“A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney” will be on view April 16 through January 2012. online at www.bellagio.com/bgfa. .
As a special bonus, this spring Bellagio’s world-famous Conservatory will present a celebration of the landscape to complement BGFA’s newest exhibition.
Located at the heart of the elegant Bellagio resort, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art is Las Vegas’ premier exhibition space – where great art goes on vacation. Since opening in 1998, the gallery has presented exhibitions of artworks and objects drawn from internationally acclaimed museums and private collections, including “Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form,” “Classic Contemporary,” “American Modernism,” “The Impressionist Landscape: From Corot to Van Gogh,” “Fabergé: Treasures from the Kremlin” and “Picasso Ceramics.”
