THE MENIL COLLECTION PRESENTS PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE SURREAL IMAGINATION Events During Houston’s FotoFest Biennial 2020 Include Talks by Artist Allison Janae HOUSTON, TEXAS, February 24, 2020 – Drawn from the Menil Collection’s renowned holdings of Surrealist art and from extraordinary loans from Houston collections, the exhibition Photography and the Surreal Imagination is on view at the Menil Collection now through June 14, 2020. Tirée des collections renommées d’art surréaliste de la collection Menil et des prêts extraordinaires des collections de Houston, l’exposition Photography and the Surreal Imagination est à l’affiche à la collection Menil jusqu’au 14 juin 2020. Présentant 62 œuvres qui couvrent les années de l’éruption du surréalisme dans des années 1920 à nos jours, l’exposition révèle comment les photographes pendant et après le mouvement surréaliste ont exploré et déformé la forme humaine, manipulé la surface photographique et utilisé l’appareil photo pour transformer le familier en inquiétant. La tension inhérente à la photographie entre documentation et invention émerge dans l’exposition comme la force génératrice qui a rendu ce médium si productif pour les artistes travaillant dans le sillage du surréalisme. |
George Platt Lynes, Untitled, 1941. Gelatin silver print, |
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Robert Doisneau Palazzo Pallavicini - Bologne
ROBERT DOISNEAU La street photography dell’artista parigino dal 27 agosto al 20 settembre 2020 a Bologna Palazzo Pallavicini è lieto di annunciare un'ulteriore proroga della mostra ROBERT DOISNEAU che resterà aperta fino al 20 settembre 2020. Dopo la pausa estiva dal 10 al 26 agosto, ritorneranno i consueti appuntamenti con Palazzo Pallavicini a orario continuato dalle 11.00 alle 20.00, dal giovedì alla domenica: un'occasione da non perdere per tutti gli appassionati e i curiosi che non hanno avuto l'occasione di scoprire gli scatti del padre della fotografia umanista e per tutti i visitatori che desiderano ripetere l’esperienza. LA MOSTRA - L’esposizione dedicata al grande fotografo parigino Robert Doisneau celebre per il suo approccio poetico alla street photography autore di Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville, una delle immagini più famose della storia della fotografia del secondo dopoguerra, è curata dall’Atelier Robert Doisneau (Montrouge, Fr) ed è organizzata da Pallavicini s.r.l. di Chiara Campagnoli, Deborah Petroni e Rubens Fogacci in collaborazione con diChroma photography. L’ampia retrospettiva è il risultato di un ambizioso progetto del 1986 di Francine Deroudille e della sorella Annette Doisneau che hanno selezionato, da 450mila negativi prodotti in oltre 60 anni di attività del padre, le 143 immagini della mostra che ci raccontano l’appassionante storia autobiografica dell’artista. I sobborghi grigi delle periferie parigine, le fabbriche, i piccoli negozi, i bambini solitari o ribelli, la guerra dalla parte della Resistenza, il popolo parigino al lavoro o in festa, gli scorci nella campagna francese, gli incontri con artisti e le celebrità dell’epoca, il mondo della moda e i personaggi eccentrici incontrati nei caffè parigini, sono i protagonisti del racconto fotografico di un mondo che “non ha nulla a che fare con la realtà, ma è infinitamente più interessante”. Doisneau non cattura la vita così come si presenta, ma come vuole che sia. Di natura ribelle, il suo lavoro è intriso di momenti di disobbedienza e di rifiuto per le regole stabilite, di immagini giocose e ironiche giustapposizioni di elementi tradizionali e anticonformisti. Influenzato dall'opera di André Kertész, Eugène Atget e Henri Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau conferisce importanza e dignità alla cultura di strada, con una particolare attenzione per i bambini, di cui coglie momenti di libertà e di gioco fuori dal controllo dei genitori, trasmettendoci una visione affascinante della fragilità umana. Le meraviglie della vita quotidiana sono così eccitanti; nessun regista può ricreare l'inaspettato che trovi per strada. Robert Doisneau. L'EXPOSITION - |
Le Mucem un Musée pour la méditerranée
À Marseille, le Mucem s’affirme comme le grand musée consacré à la Méditerranée. La singularité du Mucem est de retracer, d’analyser et d’éclairer, dans un même élan et un même lieu, les antiques fondations de ce bassin de civilisation, et les tensions qui le traversent jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine. D’être un lieu d’échange autour des enjeux méditerranéens. Dans ses expositions comme dans sa programmation culturelle, il propose une vision pluridisciplinaire où se conjuguent anthropologie, histoire, archéologie, histoire de l’art et art contemporain, afin de montrer au public les diverses facettes du monde méditerranéen et de son dialogue permanent avec l’Europe. Ses racines Premier musée consacré aux cultures de la Méditerranée, le Mucem est un musée inédit. Né de la métamorphose d’un grand musée de société - le Musée des arts et traditions populaires créé en 1937 à Paris, il représente le premier véritable transfert d’un musée national en région. Ouvert à Marseille en juin 2013, le Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem) est entré dès l’année suivante dans le cercle des 50 musées les plus visités du monde. Le Mucem se déploie sur trois sites. Côté mer, à l’entrée du Vieux-Port, le bâtiment J4 (l’emblématique geste architectural de Rudy Ricciotti et Roland Carta), et le fort Saint-Jean (monument historique entièrement restauré) incarnent parfaitement, avec leurs deux passerelles, le projet d’établir un trait d’union entre les deux rives de la Méditerranée. Ils accueillent les grandes expositions et les rendez-vous de la programmation artistique et culturelle. Côté ville, dans le quartier de la Belle de Mai, le Centre de conservation et de ressources (CCR) abrite les collections du musée. Cet ensemble unique permet au Mucem de démultiplier ses propositions culturelles. |
Mucem 2019 © Photo Cyrille Weiner Mucem |
The Metropolitan Museum presents Gerhard Richter
Exhibition Spanning Gerhard Richter’s Prolific Six Decade Career to Open at The Met Breuer Exhibition Dates: March 4–July 5, 2020 The Met Breuer The Met will present a major loan exhibition devoted to the work of one of the most renowned artists of our time: Gerhard Richter (German, born Dresden 1932). On view at The Met Breuer from March 4 through July 5, 2020, Gerhard Richter: Painting After All will consider the entire span of the artist’s career through some 100 works including paintings, glass sculptures, prints, and photographs. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will reveal Richter’s six decade-long preoccupation with the dual means of representation and abstraction, and his continual exploration of the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting. This will be the first major U.S. survey on the artist in nearly 20 years. The exhibition is made possible by the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation. Corporate sponsorship is provided by Morgan Stanley. Major support is provided by David S. Winter and the Modern and Additional funding is provided by Angela A. Chao and Jim Breyer, |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art video Gerhard Richter
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Watch a video preview of Gerhard Richter: Painting After All, on view at The Met Breuer from March 4 through July 5, 2020. The exhibition, which considers Richter's six-decade-long preoccupation with the dual means of representation and abstraction to explore the material, conceptual and historical implications of painting, spans the entirety of Richter's prolific and innovative career, and presents over one hundred works that focus on his specific commitment to the medium, as well as his related interests in photography, digital reproduction, and sculpture |
Christo and Jeanne-Claude Paris ! Centre Pompidou
Christo et Jeanne-Claude Paris ! - 01 Juillet - 19 Octobre 2020 The Centre Pompidou Gallery 2, Level 6 Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Paris!, a major exhibition from March 18 to June 15, 2020 in Gallery 2 of the Centre Pompidou, retraces artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s years in Paris together, from 1958 to 1964, and the story of The Pont-Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-1985. This exhibition will also be a prelude to L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris, Place de l’Étoile – Charles de Gaulle) which will be on view from September 19 to October 4, 2020 (see page 5). The seven years Christo lived in Paris were essential to the development of his work as an artist. Christo broke free from the boundaries of the painting, as he began wrapping everyday objects and creating temporary artworks in public spaces. He also began conceiving works of art in monumental dimension, envisioning numerous temporary projects for the city. |
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Lygia Clark Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
Lygia Clark: Painting as an Experimental Field, 1948–1958 Museo Guggenheim Bilbao A pioneer in abstraction, Lygia Clark (b. 1920, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; d. 1988, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a major artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Lygia Clark: Painting as an Experimental Field, 1948–1958 presents a reexamination of Clark’s crucial formative years from 1948 to 1958, when she was experimenting between figuration and abstraction to articulate the compelling visual language that defined her mature production. Along with a pertinent representation of her early figurative work, this exhibition assembles paintings from major series created during this early period to provide a fundamental overview of the first decade of Clark’s artistic career. Viewing painting as an “experimental field,” a phrase from a keynote lecture given by the artist in 1956, Clark sought to redefine the medium by pushing the boundaries of traditional painting. Dedicating herself to art without formal training, she embedded herself within the artistic milieu of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1940s and participated in seminal artistic movements, such as Concrete art and geometric abstraction, throughout the 1950s. This focused exhibition traces Clark’s artistic evolution in three structured historical sections: “The Early Years, 1948–1952;” “Geometric Abstraction, 1953–1956;” and “Variation of Form: Modulating Space, 1957–1958.” Each chapter addresses Clark’s most significant ideas and provides an in-depth representation of her artistic development through a concise selection of works. This presentation of Lygia Clark’s early practice debuts on the centenary anniversary of the artist’s birth, bringing a renewed attention at an international level to a significant postwar Latin American female artist. The museum is thankful to the Lygia Clark Cultural Association, Rio de Janeiro, and the artist’s heirs for their tremendous support of the exhibition. Curator: Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães |
Lygia Clark |
Richard Artschwager The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Dates: 29 February – 10 May, 2020 Museo Guggenheim Bilbao Halfway between painting and sculpture, Artschwager develops a unique language using the new domestic materials of his time, always working toward the fusion of figuration and abstraction, artistic innovation and design, and ironically seeks to combine the functional and the useless. Designed as an open labyrinth, the exhibition features a comprehensive selection of paintings and sculptures dating from the early 1960s to the first decade of this century. Artschwager represents places, scenes from everyday life, and common objects such as tables, chairs, and dressers, interpreting them in ordinary, standardized industrial materials such as Formica, Celotex, acrylic paint, and rubberized horsehair. Artschwager’s work continually questions appearance and essence, offering us a delicate and realistic, humorous yet monumental interpretation of the world. |
Richard Artschwager Door } , 1983-84 |