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Pour la première fois en France depuis 1953, le Centre Pompidou consacre une exposition au cubisme au travers d’un vaste panorama de l’histoire du mouvement à Paris entre 1907 et 1917.
L’originalité du projet consiste à élargir la vision traditionnellement concentrée sur les grands noms du mouvement, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger et Pablo Picasso, aux cubistes secondaires, comme Gleizes et Metzinger, ou différents tels Robert et Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp ou Francis Picabia, qui exposaient dans les salons officiels parisiens lorsque les pionniers réservaient leurs créations expérimentales à un seul jeune marchand inconnu, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
Riche de trois cents œuvres et de documents significatifs de son rayonnement, la présentation s’articule chronologiquement en quatorze chapitres où se détachent des chefs-d’œuvre comme le Portrait de Gertrude Stein (1905-1906) ou ceux d’Ambroise Vollard (1909) et de Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) par Picasso et des ensembles de peintures et de sculptures, jamais réunies. Elles mettent en valeur l’évolution à rebondissements du cubisme, remontant aux sources primitivistes (avec des sculptures tribales collectionnées par les artistes), et à la fascination des cubistes pour Gauguin et Cézanne. Elles reflètent la progression formelle du mouvement, d’une première étape cézannienne (avec la présence de l’exceptionnelle nature morte de Picasso, Pains et compotier sur une table, 1909) vers une transcription analytique hermétique (1910-1912) transformée en version plus synthétique (1913-1917), qui marque le retour de la représentation et de la couleur.
La part la plus révolutionnaire du cubisme – l’invention des papiers collés, des collages et des constructions de Braque, Picasso, Gris et Henri Laurens – est représentée par des grandes icônes de l’art du 20e siècle, comme la Nature morte à la chaise cannée de Picasso (1912) ou sa Guitare en tôle et fils de fer (1914). D’autres aspects illustrent l’importance et le prestige de la constellation cubiste : les liens avec la littérature sont retracés dans une salle dédiée aux critiques et aux poètes, incarnés par les portraits les plus marquants de Max Jacob ou d’Apollinaire, par le Douanier Rousseau et Marie Laurencin, les éditions Kahnweiler de livres cubistes, la collaboration entre les Delaunay et Blaise Cendrars autour de La Prose du Transsibérien en 1913, etc. La tragédie de la Grande Guerre (1914-1918) qui mobilise ou exile les artistes et leurs soutiens est retracée par des œuvres des artistes du front (Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Fernand Léger) ou de l’arrière parce qu’étrangers (Pablo Picasso, Cartes à jouer, verres, bouteille de rhum, « Vive la France », 1914-1915) qui témoignent de l’inévitable stérilisation du mouvement frappé par l’histoire (Marc Chagall, Les Portes du cimetière, 1917). La fin du parcours témoigne à la fois de la renaissance des rescapés comme Braque (La Musicienne, 1917-1918) et de l’influence exercée par le cubisme sur ses contemporains, comme Henri Matisse (Porte-fenêtre à Collioure, 1914) et ses héritiers abstraits (Piet Mondrian, Composition n°IV, 1914), Kasimir Malévitch, Croix noire, 1915 ou contestataires (Marcel Duchamp, Roue de bicyclette, 1913/1964), tous tributaires de la révolution cubiste.
Avec le soutien exceptionnel du Musée national Picasso-Paris
L’exposition est coproduite avec le Kunstmuseum de Bâle
Expositions
Le cubisme
17 oct. 2018 – 25 févr. 2019 de 11h à 21h
Galerie 1 – Centre Pompidou, Paris
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris
# Le Cubisme
Exposition Centre Pompidou
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From May 5 until September 16, 2018, Bruges will be the setting for the second edition of the Triennial, an art route in the heart of the historic city.
With the central theme ‘Liquid City’, the Triennial wants to investigate the role of a city like Bruges in a globalized and changing world. With the artistic and architectural installations, the participants of Triennale Brugge 2018 | Liquid City create welcoming public spaces in the city center. Those temporary interventions on little known and iconic places in Bruges offer great opportunities for encounter, wonder and dialogue.
Triennial Bruges 2018 will feature works by Jarosław Kozakiewicz (PL), Wesley Meuris (BE), Renato Nicolodi (BE), NLÉ – Kunlé Adeyemi (NG-NL), OBBA (KR), Roxy Paine (US), John Powers (USA), raumlabor (DE), Rotor (BE), Ruimteveldwerk (BE), Tomás Saraceno (AR), Jose Selgas & Lucia Cano (ES), Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (IR), StudioKCA (US), Peter Van Driessche – Atelier4 (BE).
The Bruges Triennial 2018, themed Liquid City reaches back to 2015 edition, which was a reflection on the city as a megapolis: “What if the 5 million visitors to the city decided to stay?”
This edition takes a step further: how flexible, liquid and resilient can a historic city like Bruges be in an age when nothing seems to be certain any longer? None other than Zygmunt Bauman, prophet of the permanent crisis in the West, devoted his final book to this phenomenon, a year before his death in January 2017.
In Retrotopia, Bauman invites the reader to question the dynamics of our society, as well as the metaphor “liquid” itself, the contemporary era as a time of transition, which today stands in stark contrast with the institutional framework that once formed a safe environment for our (grand)parents. Each institution in turn, whether the government, the church, political parties, insurance companies or banks, have lost the public’s trust. This renders society particularly vulnerable to fear-mongers.
This world is changing rapidly. Established ways of thinking and forms of life are under pressure. What does the future hold?
The Bruges Triennial 2018 co-curators Tilll-Holger Borchert and Michel Dewilde invited international artists and architects to think about these issues. Many of them sought inspiration in the city that is literally crisscrossed and surrounded by water.
The waterways that once earned Bruges its international renown, become a metaphor for Liquid City. Works of art, installations and meeting places have been put up in the city centre.
They form a free hospitable route that brings people together in unexpected spots. That is one of the main objectives of the Bruges Triennial 2018: generating encounters, challenging people not only to view the artworks but also to experience them and to become part of the creative process.
Participating internationally renowned architects include Kunlé Adeyemi, (Nigeria/Netherlands, NLÉ Architects), who designed the third version of MFS – Minne Floating School for Bruges, selgascano (Spain) who created the new swimming pavilion for Brugians and visitors alike on the city canal, and OBBA (Korea) who worked together with Bruges-based Architectuuratelier Dertien12 to construct The Floating Island, a meandering walkway on the water. Climate change and environmental issues are addressed through the installation of the Bruges Whale by StudioKCA (US), INFINITI designed by Peter Van Driessche of Aterlier4 (Belgium) suggests tiny housing situated on the water whereas the Aerocene project by Tomás Saraceno (Argentina) invites us to look to the sky. A very different approach is offered by Brussels-based collective Rotor who presents a museum dedicated to the Chinese Mitten Crab in the Poortersloge and an exotic eatery at the beach in Zeebrugge. raumlabor (Germany) has been working with local youths on their House of Time, a continuous project of building, experimenting and hands-on experience and the Belgian collective Ruimteveldwerk have persuaded the inhabitants of one of the historic almshouse complexes to help create their G.O.D. project. Further installations along the arts trail are created by artists such as Wesley Meuris (Belgium), Renato Nicolodi (Belgium), John Powers (US), Jarosław Kozakiewicz (Poland) and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Iran).
Additional art works, designs, models and documentary materials of all the participants are presented in the free Liquid City exhibition in the Poortersloge, the central information point of the Bruges Triennial 2018.
A further exhibition is located in the Church of the Great Seminary. Architectures Liquides, curated by Abdelkader Damani, is a selection of impressive visionary architectural models from the FRAC-Centre collection in Orléans (France).
The bilingual catalogue (Dutch/English) with contributions by Till-Holger Borchert, Michel Dewilde, Abdelkader Damani, Tom Trevor, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Marc Van den Bossche ea. and photography by Iwan Baan is available at the Triennial information points, arts bookshops and online.
Triënnale Brugge 2018
Liquid City / Vloeibare Stad
Till-Holger Borchert, Michel Dewilde
Photogr.: Misc.
Format: 27 x 20
Pages 160
Hardcover
Dutch, English
ISBN 9789058565990
€ 29,95
# more information on website Bruges Triennial 2018
Bruges Triennial 2018: Liquid City – Contemporary art and architecture trail in the historic heart of Bruges – is open daily until September 16. Opening hours for the exhibitions and some installations: 12–6pm – Free of charge
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Van 9 september tot en met 7 oktober organiseert Luycks Gallery in Tilburg: “Ad Fundum”, een hommage aan meester-graficus en tekenaar Ad Willemen.
Het is dit jaar vijf jaar geleden dat deze markante kunstenaar overleed. Zowel in Luycks Gallery als in het nabijgelegen voormalig atelier van Willemen wordt een keuze getoond uit zijn artistieke nalatenschap.
Willemens grote muze was het vrouwelijk naakt. In zijn grafisch werk citeerde hij veelvuldig en bevlogen uit de kunstgeschiedenis. Zijn fantasie werd geprikkeld door werk van onder meer Cranach, Rafael, Piero di Cosimo en Harunobu.
Begin jaren ’90 kwam hij voor het eerst naar buiten met zijn ‘apocriefe’ oeuvre: erotische tekeningen naar levend model. Met een ‘Lust zu Zeichnen’, zette hij tientallen vrouwen op even virtuoze als fijnzinnige wijze op papier. Zijn waarnemingen wist Willemen om te zetten in een eigen idioom, prikkelend, suggestief en provocerend met een subtiel oog voor kleur en detail. Zijn werk geniet grote nationale en internationale bekendheid en is opgenomen in tal van particuliere en overheidscollecties.
Op 21 september is er in Cinecitta bij wijze van hommage een filmavond rondom Willemen. Aanvang 20:00 uur, toegang gratis. Meer informatie www.luycksgallery.com en www.cinecitta.nl
De openingstijden van het atelier zijn gelijk aan die van de galerie. Adres: Bisschop Zwijsenstraat 23, Tilburg.
Luycks Gallery
Nieuwlandstraat 31
5038 SL Tilburg
tel: + 31 6 22 800 638
e-mail: info@luycksgallery.com
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Amper dertig jaar was Jean Leering (1934-2005) toen hij benoemd werd tot directeur van het Van Abbemuseum. De opvolger van Edy de Wilde maakte van het Van Abbe een spraakmakend museum, waar de erfenis van Theo van Doesburg, László Moholy-Nagy en El Lissitzky werd verknoopt met de nieuwste kunst van de jaren zestig en zeventig.
Als eerste haalde Leering kunstenaars als Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Christo, Bruce Nauman en Joseph Beuys naar Nederland. Hij organiseerde exposities over minimal art, seriële kunst en lichtkunst die internationaal de aandacht trokken.
De bewonderde tentoonstellingmaker – opgeleid als bouwkundig ingenieur – schrok niet terug voor ferme uitspraken. Het museum? Dat was onderdeel van de preventieve geestelijke gezondheidszorg, een instrument voor emancipatie, een kritisch beeldinstituut dat kon bijdragen aan de vorming van de publieke opinie. Met geëngageerde tentoonstellingen als ‘De Straat’, ‘Cityplan Eindhoven’ en ‘Bouwen ’20-’40’ zou het van Abbe de toon zetten voor een generatie jonge curatoren in de eenentwintigste eeuw.
Leering was een activist van de geest wiens ideeën soms op felle tegenstand stuitten. Met zijn vaste vormgever Jan van Toorn zette hij vraagtekens bij de status van het museum als onbetwiste autoriteit. De vraagtekens werden uitroeptekens toen Leering ontslag nam om leiding te geven aan de nieuwe koers van het Tropenmuseum (1973-1975) in Amsterdam.
Tentoonstellingen, vond Leering, dienden inzicht te geven in hoe de wereld in elkaar stak. Hoe de wereld verkeerd in elkaar stak, soms. En wat daar aan gedaan kon worden. Want een museum dat zijn werkzaamheid alleen tot het netvlies wilde beperken, was een half museum.
Over hoe dat museum eruit had kunnen zien, gaat dit boek. Over de kijker tegenover het kunstwerk en de band tussen kunst en samenleving. Met Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty en Foucault waakzaam in de coulissen.
Biografie Jean Leering
‘Het gaat om heel eenvoudige dingen’:
Jean Leering en de kunst
Auteur: Paul Kempers
Ontwerp: Sam de Groot
Serie: vis-à-vis
2018, Valiz
paperback
336 blz.
23,5 x 16,5 cm (staand)
Nederlands
ISBN 978-94-92095-07-7
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Lijvig overzicht van sleutelfiguren uit de hedendaagse kunst, geselecteerd en beschreven door Philippe Van Cauteren en uitgegeven door Uitgeverij Hannibal.
Al jarenlang schrijft Philippe Van Cauteren brieven naar kunstenaars van over de hele wereld.
Hij richt zich op een zeer persoonlijke manier tot kunstenaars die hem inspireren en legt hen uit waarom. Vaak zit in de brieven reeds de basis van een nieuwe tentoonstelling vervat.
Van Cauterens brieven zijn literair, maar tegelijk direct en geschreven in een erg toegankelijke stijl.
Ze geven een bijzondere inkijk in de manier waarop een curator kunst beleeft en interpreteert, en zijn bovendien een zeer duidelijke en beknopte introductie tot het werk van de kunstenaars die hij aanschrijft. Ze zijn steeds een opening tot een dialoog en stemmen tot nadenken over de hedendaagse kunst.
Deze publicatie bundelt meer dan honderd brieven. Elke brief wordt geconfronteerd met een sleutelwerk van de kunstenaar aan wie hij is gericht.
In een inleidend manifest tekent Van Cauteren ook de grote lijnen uit van het ‘ideale museum van de toekomst’. Als directeur van het S.M.A.K. en opvolger van visionair Jan Hoet heeft hij daarover zeer concrete ideeën.
Dit boek reflecteert over het hedendaagse culturele veld en de plaats die het museum en de kunstenaar hierin innemen en hoe de verschillende partijen op een zo constructief mogelijk manier kunnen samenwerken.
Van Cauteren richt zijn pen onder meer tot Michael Borremans, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Jan Fabre, Guillaume Bijl, Jef Geys, Jan Hoet, Ann Veronica Janssens, Mark Manders, Rinus Van de Velde en Vincent van Gogh.
Brieven aan kunstenaars
Philippe Van Cauteren
19 x 13,5 cm
352 bladzijden
Softcover
Quadrichromie
Nederlandstalige editie
ISBN 978 94 9267 730 3
Uitgeverij Hannibal
Prijs: € 29,50
Het boek is ook te koop in S.M.A.K. Gent.
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Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history
The show opens in 1963 at the height of the Civil Rights movement and its dreams of integration. In its wake emerged more militant calls for Black Power: a rallying cry for African American pride, autonomy and solidarity, drawing inspiration from newly independent African nations.
Artists responded to these times by provoking, confronting, and confounding expectations. Their momentum makes for an electrifying visual journey. Vibrant paintings, powerful murals, collage, photography, revolutionary clothing designs and sculptures made with Black hair, melted records, and tights – the variety of artworks reflects the many viewpoints of artists and collectives at work during these explosive times.
Some engage with legendary figures from the period, with paintings in homage to political leaders Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Angela Davis, musician John Coltrane and sporting hero Jack Johnson. Muhammad Ali appears in Andy Warhol’s famous painting.
This landmark exhibition is a rare opportunity to see era-defining artworks that changed the face of art in America.
Book of the exhibtion:
Soul of a Nation
Art in the Age of Black Power
Edited with text by Mark Godfrey, Zoé Whitley. Contributions by Linda Goode Bryant, Susan E. Cahan, David Driskell, Edmund Barry Gaither, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Samella Lewis.
Hbk, 8.5 x 10 in.
256 pgs
203 color – 33 bw.
9/26/2017
ISBN 9781942884170
$39.95
In the period of radical change that was 1963–83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans?
Soul of a Nation surveys this crucial period in American art history, bringing to light previously neglected histories of 20th-century black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Howardena Pindell, Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Senga Nengudi, Noah Purifoy, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Charles White and Frank Bowling.
The book features substantial essays from Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley, writing on abstraction and figuration, respectively. It also explores the art-historical and social contexts with subjects ranging from black feminism, AfriCOBRA and other artist-run groups to the role of museums in the debates of the period and visual art’s relation to the Black Arts Movement. Over 170 artworks by these and many other artists of the era are illustrated in full color.
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the first use of the term “black power” by student activist Stokely Carmichael; it will also be 50 years since the US Supreme Court overturned the prohibition of interracial marriage. At this turning point in the reassessment of African American art history, Soul of a Nation is a vital contribution to this timely subject.
Exhibition
Soul of a Nation:
Art in the Age of Black Power
Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
Until 22 October 2017
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African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers
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A literary retrospective of a crucial period in modernism—the transition from Dada to Surrealism––via portraits and encounters with its literary lions, including Joyce, Proust, Reverdy, Apollinaire, Crevel and more by the co-founder of the Paris surrealist group.
Poet Alan Bernheimer provides a long overdue English translation of this French literary classic—Lost Profiles is a retrospective of a crucial period in modernism, written by co-founder of the Surrealist Movement.
Opening with a reminiscence of the international Dada movement in the late 1910s and its transformation into the beginnings of surrealism, Lost Profiles then proceeds to usher its readers into encounters with a variety of literary lions.
We meet an elegant Marcel Proust, renting five adjoining rooms at an expensive hotel to “contain” the silence needed to produce Remembrance of Things Past; an exhausted James Joyce putting himself through grueling translation sessions for Finnegans Wake; and an enigmatic Apollinaire in search of the ultimate objet trouvé.
Soupault sketches lively portraits of surrealist precursors like Pierre Reverdy and Blaise Cendrars, a moving account of his tragic fellow surrealist René Crevel, and the story of his unlikely friendship with right-wing anti-Vichy critic George Bernanos.
The collection ends with essays on two modernist forerunners, Charles Baudelaire and Henri Rousseau. With an afterword by Ron Padgett recounting his meeting with Soupault in the mid 70’s and a preface by André Breton biographer Mark Polizzotti, Lost Profiles confirms Soupault’s place in the vanguard of twentieth-century literature.
Philippe Soupault (1897-1990) served in the French army during WWI and subsequently joined the Dada movement. In 1919, he collaborated with André Breton on the automatic text Les Champs magnétiques, launching the surrealist movement. In the years that followed, he wrote novels and journalism, directed Radio Tunis in Tunisia, and worked for UNESCO.
Lost Profiles
Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism
Philippe Soupault
Translated by Alan Bernheimer
Foreword by Mark Polizzotti
Afterword by Ron Padgett
Paperback – $13.95
Pages:112 – 2016
City Lights Publishers
ISBN978-0-87286-727-7
“(…) a brief account by a perceptive writer who was on the scene when modernity was young.”, Robert Fulford
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Verhaeren verbeeld
De schrijver-criticus Emile Verhaeren en de kunst van zijn tijd
Nog te zien t/m 15.01.2017 in M.S.K. in Gent
In samenwerking met het Verhaerenmuseum in Sint-Amands aan de Schelde en de Université Libre de Bruxelles organiseert het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent een grote tentoonstelling over de uit Gent afkomstige dichter en kunstcriticus Emile Verhaeren, die 100 jaar geleden overleed.
De tentoonstelling belicht het universele karakter van Verhaerens oeuvre, zijn netwerk binnen de kunstwereld rond de eeuwwisseling en de internationale aandacht voor zijn werk, in eerste instantie in België en Frankrijk, maar ook in Rusland en andere landen.
Emile Verhaeren volgde tussen 1880 en 1916 volgde hij nauwgezet de ontwikkeling van de Belgische avant-garde-kunst. Hij verdedigde het naturalisme en de sociale kunst, het impressionisme en het neo-impressionisme, het symbolisme. Bovenal was hij een verdediger van de moderniteit die hij in de kunst van zijn tijd terugvond.
In zijn poëzie en geschriften bundelt Verhaeren zijn gevoelens, passies en artistieke strijdpunten. Meer dan 100 jaar later laten ze ons toe het werk van nationale en internationale kunstenaars te herontdekken door de ogen van een eigenzinnig kenner.
De tentoonstelling brengt de historische en artistieke context tot leven waarin het oeuvre van de dichter-criticus tot stand kwam. Het MSK laat o.a. de rijke collectie schilderijen, beeldhouwwerken en werken op papier zien. Zoals publiekslievelingen als ‘De Lezing van Emile Verhaeren’ door Théo Van Rysselberghe of ‘Kinderen aan het ochtendtoilet’ van James Ensor in dialoog met collectiestukken die de reserves weinig verlaten.
Tegelijk haalt het MSK een grote reeks kunstwerken uit internationale publieke en private verzamelingen naar Gent, met stukken van ondermeer Auguste Rodin, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce of Odilon Redon. Ook kunstenaars als Léon Frédéric, Eugène Laermans en Constantin Meunier, Jan Toorop en Guillaume Vogels, Henry Van de Velde, Fernand Khnopff en George Minne kunnen uiteraard niet ontbreken. In totaal brengt het MSK niet minder dan 200 werken uit het fin de siècle op zaal.
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De schrijver-criticus Emile Verhaeren en de kunst van zijn tijd (1881-1916)
Nog te zien t/m 15.01.2017 in M.S.K. in Gent
Museum voor Schone Kunst Gent
Fernand Scribedreef 1
Citadelpark
9000 Gent
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From the beginning, Eva Hesse’s life was marked by drama and social challenges. Born in Hamburg in 1936 to a German-Jewish family, the artist’s fierce work ethic may have developed from a complex psychology that was formed, in part, as a Jew born in Nazi Germany.
Having escaped the fate of her extended family, Eva and her older sister Helen were sent out on one of the last Kindertransports (trains that carried Jewish children to safety) and was eventually reunited with their parents in Holland. They made their way to New York but her family struggled to make a new home and her mother, after many years of depression and a failed marriage, committed suicide when Eva was 9 years old.
The artist graduated from Cooper Union and Yale School of Art, then returned home to Manhattan in late 1959 and began to receive attention for her highly original, abstract drawings. In 1961 Hesse met Tom Doyle, an already established sculptor, and in a whirlwind romance married him a scant 6 months after first glimpse. Their relationship was both passionate and competitive. Hesse struggled with the desire to be on equal footing with Doyle in terms of their art making but also wanted to be in a marriage with someone who could offer her the security that life often denied her.
In 1964 Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt, a German industrialist, offered an all-expenses paid artist’s residency to Tom Doyle for year of working in an abandoned textile factory near Essen, Germany. It was tough choice – go back to the country that had murdered her family or stay in New York and work menial jobs while trying to make art with any time and energy left over. Ironically, the work on which her reputation was built began to emerge during this extended visit to the homeland she had escaped 25 years earlier.
When the couple arrived for the residency, Doyle was clearly the artist of note. But something happened during those 14 months in the cold factory on the Ruhr River. Eva arrived in Germany a painter. But as she worked in the thin German light, she began to incorporate pieces of metal and string that she found in the corner of her studio into her work. By the time the couple were ready to return to New York in the fall of 1965, Eva had fully incorporated a 3-dimensionality into her work which was now neither painting nor sculpture, but an exciting cross-breed of the two. And people were beginning to take notice. Within months after returning to New York in the fall of 1965, her work was thriving but the marriage failed. Tom moved into his studio just across the Bowery.
For the next 5 years, Eva worked non-stop on an impressive body of work, completing dozens of major sculptural works and hundreds of works on paper. Although she sold little, critical attention was paid and she was showing often and in excellent venues. In 1969 Hesse, who had suffered with headaches for many years, began having debilitating episodes and was eventually diagnosed with a brain tumor. Although the subsequent operation was deemed a success, the tumors reappeared and she died in 1970 at the age of 34.
As the wild ride of the 1960’s came to a close, Eva Hesse, a 34 year-old German-born American artist was cresting the wave of a swiftly rising career. One of the few women recognized as central to the New York art scene, she had over 20 group shows scheduled for 1970 in addition to being chosen for a cover article in ArtForum Magazine. Her work was finally receiving both the critical and commercial attention it deserved. When she died in May, 1970 from a brain tumor, the life of one of that decades’ most passionate and brilliant artists was tragically cut short. As Jonathon Keats wrote in Art and Antiques Magazine “Yet the end of her life proved to be only the beginning of her career. The couple of solo gallery shows she hustled in the 11 years following her graduation from the Yale School of Art have since been eclipsed by multiple posthumous retrospectives at major museums from the Guggenheim to the Hirshhorn to the Tate.” Her work is now held by many important museum collections including the Whitney, MoMA, the Hirschhorn, the Pompidou in Paris and London’s Tate Modern.
Artists such as Dan Graham, Richard Serra, Nancy Holt, Carl Andre, Robert and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Eva’s husband Tom Doyle and her friend, writer Lucy Lippard speak candidly and with great passion about the 60’s, Eva’s work and her life. In addition, Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Museums and Whitney curator Elisabeth Sussman have added their views on Hesse’s work and legacy. Hesse’s journals and correspondence provides much of the guiding narration.
Eva Hesse deepens the understanding of this extraordinary artist, not only in terms of her ground-breaking work, but also the life that provided the fertile soil for her achievements. With dozens of new interviews, high quality footage of Hesse’s artwork and a wealth of newly discovered archival imagery, the documentary not only traces Eva’s path but engages in a lively investigation into the creative community of 1960’s New York and Germany.
The Movie-team
– Marcie Begleiter. Director-Producer
– Karen Shapiro. Producer
– Nancy Schreiber. Cinematographer
– Azin Samari. Editor
– Andreas Schäfer & Raffael Seyfried. Composers
– Kia Simon. Motion Graphics Designer
– Michael Aust. Producer
– Louise Rosen. Consulting Producer
“Eva Hesse” is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non profit arts service organization. ‐
Contributions for the charitable purposes of the documentary must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” and are tax deductible to the extent permitted ‐ by law.
# For more information about the documentary-project see the website
“This indispensable film will be shining a light on Hesse’s work, and her, for a long time to come.” Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
EVA HESSE – Documentary film “Eva Hesse” about the German-American 1960’s artist and the art world of the 1960s.
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Foam Magazine #43: Ai Weiwei – Freedom of Expression under Surveillance
Foam is proud to launch the brand new and unique Foam Magazine, which was made in close collaboration with world-renowned Chinese contemporary artist and activist Ai Weiwei (1957, Beijing). Weiwei is guest editor for this issue that is entirely dedicated to the theme ‘Freedom of Expression under Surveillance’. Ai Weiwei himself is the central point of the magazine, as an artist under constant surveillance by the Chinese government. The magazine contains images he made while documenting his life by using Instagram and webcams, but also pays attention to Ai Weiwei’s constant endeavour to keep a sharp eye on the ones surveilling him.
Freedom of Expression under Surveillance
Containing an interview with, and quotes by the artist Foam Magazine #43 is divided into four parts: ‘Sousveillance”, ‘Self Surveillance’, ‘Urban Surveillance’ and ‘Art and Surveillance’. It reports on the way the artist worked the last few years. Instagram and Twitter became the means by which Ai Weiwei shared virtually every aspect of his life with a steadily growing multitude of followers all over the world. Part of the issue shows a selection of the endless stream of images posted on Instagram by Ai Weiwei. In another part Weiwei shares stills from the ‘Weiweicam’ he directed at himself 24/7. Foam Magazine #43 documents crucial and highly eventful period in the life of one of the most important artists of our age.
About Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is an influential Chinese contemporary artist and activist. As a political activist, he has been openly criticizing the Chinese Government’s stance on democracy and human rights. In 2011, following his arrest at Beijing Capital International Airport he was held for 81 days without any official charges being filed. Recently he had his passport returned to him and was given the opportunity to travel abroad. Among art works by Ai Weiwei are Fairytale (2007), produced for Documenta 12, and Sunflower Seeds, an installation in London’s Tate Modern in 2010. A major solo exhibition of his work is currently on show at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
ISBN 9789491727825
Published December 2015
288 pages + 4 cover pages front + back
Printed on selected specialized paper
Swiss bound
300x230x25 mm
€22,50
# More information: www.foam.org
Photo Anton K. (FdM): Protest in Berlin, Linienstrasse, 2011
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Issue No. 103
September 2016
„Poetry“
TZK #103 addresses “poetry,” a language form central to the recent shift toward affect in contemporary critical writing. Seeing the “artist-poet” as a vital site for the intersection of politics, affect, and digitality, we consider her voice and her currency from various perspectives, pro and con, across generations, analyzing her rising success, also asking what is gained and lost in this move from “rational” thought to what one feels? Scanning populist poetry, anarchist poetry, post-millennial net-poetry, the poetry of surplus-language and social media, the art historical poetic/poet-turned-object, and shades of fading Poesie, this issue, conceived by the editors with John Kelsey and Isabelle Graw explores how the seeming immediacy of #poetry and the suggestion of a hyper-personal voice correlates with current economic demand to claim visibility.
Issue No. 103 – September 2016 “Poetry”
Table of contents
Vorwort
7 Preface
36 Tim Griffin What Is Poetry?
42 Joshua Clover Objectively Speaking / Remarks on Subjectivity and Poetry
48 Isabelle Graw The Poet’s Seduction / Six Theses on Marcel Broodthaers’s Contemporary Relevance
74 Liz Kotz Word Pieces, Event Scores, Compositions
82 Monika Rinck The Promise of Poetic Language
88 Ada O’Higgins If you don’t like the reflection. Don’t look in the mirror. I don’t care.
94 Chris Kraus and Ariana Reines The feelings I Fail to capitalize, I fail / Chris Kraus and Ariana Reines in conversation on auto-fiction and biography
108 Felix Bernstein The Irreproachable Essay / On the Amazon Discourse of Hybrid Literature
122 Daniela Seel IMMEDIACY, I MEET WITH SKEPTICISM / Three questions for Daniela Seel
130 Micaela Durand DEVIL SHIT
134 Karolin Meunier Hearing Voices / On the reading and performance of poetry
148 Dena Yago Empire Poetry
Short Cut
169 Four Theses on Branding / David Joselit on Berlin Biennale 9
173 Mantras der Gegenwart / Hanna Magauer über Berlin Biennale 9
Rotation
177 Sehnsucht nach der verlorenen Stadt / Johannes Paul Raether über “spiritus” von Honey-Suckle Company
182 BENJAMIN BUCHLOH, ART HISTORIAN / Christine Mehring on Benjamin H. D. Buchloh’s “Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art”
187 Es war zweimal sagte sie / Vojin Sasa Vukadinovic über Eva Meyers „Legende sein“
191 Less is more? / John Miller on Justin Lieberman’s “The Corrector’s Custom Pre-Fab House”
96 So machen wir’s / Eva Geulen über „The Use of Bodies“ (Homo Sacer IV.2) von Giorgio Agamben
Short Waves
203 Gunter Reski über Victor Man bei MD 72, Berlin / Harry Burke on Dean Blunt at Arcadia Missa, London / Rhea Dall on Stephen G. Rhodes at Eden Eden, Berlin / Tobias Vogt über Thea Djordjadze bei Sprüth Magers, Berlin / Deanna Havas on Marc Kokopeli at Lomex, New York / Martin Herbert on Fredrik Værslev at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Reviews
222 Habeas Corpus / Simon Baier über Francis Picabia im Kunsthaus Zürich
227 Marcel Broodthaers, Art Historian’s Artist / Trevor Stark on Marcel Broodthaers at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
232 Malerei als soziales Handeln? / Christian Spies über Fernand Léger im Museum Ludwig, Köln
226 Simulierte Musealisierung / Philipp Kleinmichel über Isa Genzken im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
240 Elegance is Resistance / Stephanie LaCava on Lukas Duwenhögger at Artists Space, New York
Nachruf
245 TONY CONRAD (1949–2016) by Diedrich Diederichsen
247 Jay Sanders TONY CONRAD (1949–2016)
Edition
Martha Rosler
Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman
More issues:
Issue No. 103 / September 2016 “Poetry”
Issue No. 102 / June 2016 “Fashion”
Issue No. 101 / March 2016 “Polarities”
Issue No. 100 / December 2015 “The Canon”
Issue No. 99 / September 2015 “Photography”
Issue No. 98 / June 2015 “Media”
Issue No. 97 / March 2015 “Bohemia”
Issue No. 96 / December 2014 “The Gallerists”
Issue No. 95 / September 2014 “Art vs. Image”
Issue No. 94 / May 2014 “Berlin Update”
Issue No. 93 / March 2014 “Speculation”
Issue No. 92 / December 2013 “Architecture”
Issue No. 91 / September 2013 “Globalism”
Issue No. 90 / June 2013 “How we aim to work”
Issue No. 89 / March 2013 “Mike Kelley”
Issue No. 88 / December 2012 “The Question of Value”
Issue No. 87 / September 2012 “Conflict”
Issue No. 86 / June 2012 “The Curators”
Issue No. 85 / March 2012 “Art History Revisited”
Issue No. 84 / December 2011 “Feminism!”
Issue No. 83 / September 2011 “The Collectors”
Issue No. 82 / June 2011 “Artistic Research”
Issue No. 81 / March 2011 “Where do you stand, colleague ?”
Issue No. 80 / December 2010 “Political Art?”
Issue No. 79 / September 2010 “Life at Work”
Issue No. 78 / June 2010 “Fashion”
Issue No. 77 / March 2010 “Painting”
# More information on website Texte Zur Kunst
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Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Apollinaire, the vision of the poet
Until 18 July 2016
The exhibition Apollinaire, the Eyes of the Poet looks at the period between 1902 and 1918 when Guillaume Apollinaire was active as an art critic. This period of fifteen years, seemingly a brief span, would in fact see a prodigious concentration of schools, manifestos, experiments and discoveries flourishing throughout the arts. Apollinaire’s character, his artistic sensitivity and his insatiable curiosity, made him a witness, a participant and a privileged intermediary in the turbulent times of the early 20th century. With a keen eye for discovering the art of his time, Apollinaire “defined once and for all the approach of artists like Matisse, Derain, Picasso and Chirico (…) using intellectual surveying techniques not seen since Baudelaire” Breton declared in 1952.
The aim of this exhibition is to recognise the important effect that this poet-critic’s discerning eye had on his era, in much the same way as Baudelaire and Mallarmé had on theirs.
Poet, critic, friend of artists and one of the first to discover African arts, Apollinaire proved to be a key player in the aesthetic revolution that led to the birth of modern art.
This exhibition aims to explore Apollinaire’s mental and aesthetic universe through a thematic display: from Douanier Rousseau to Matisse, Picasso, Braque and Delaunay, from Cubism to Orphism and Surrealism, from academic sources to modernity, from tribal arts to popular arts. One section will highlight in particular the poet’s links with Picasso.
The exhibition sits quite naturally in the Musée de l’Orangerie alongside the works collected by his friend Paul Guillaume, whom Apollinaire introduced into the avant-garde circles, and whose adviser he became.
Musée de l’Orangerie
Jardin des Tuileries
Place de la Concorde
Paris fr
+33 (0)1 44 77 80 07
+33 (0)1 44 50 43 00
Jours et horaires d’ouverture
Ouvert de 9h à 18h
Dernier accès : 17h15
Fermé le mardi
# Website: Le musée de l’Orangerie
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