quinta-feira, 6 de agosto de 2015
"Grand Illusions," Survey of 170 Years of Staged Photography, Opens at Met 8/10
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Installation Dates: August 10, 2015-January 18, 2016
Installation Location: The Howard Gilman Gallery, Gallery 852
Photographers, like
ventriloquists, can cast "voices" in a seemingly infinite number of
genres and period styles. This does not negate the camera's direct
relationship to the world-tying image to subject as naturally as a
footprint-but instead reveals that photographs are always admixtures of
fiction and reality tilted toward one end of the scale or the other. Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection,
a survey of 40 photographs spanning the first 170 years of the medium,
focuses on the ways in which artists have staged and composed images so
that the imaginary is pictured as if it were real. The installation will
explore photography's relationship with other mediums such as
literature and film, as well as its persuasive powers when used in
advertising.
Among the highlights of Grand Illusions
is Pierre-Louis Pierson's Fright (1861-64), one of the many portraits
Pierson made in collaboration with Virginia Verasis, Countess of
Castiglione, between 1856 and 1867. In this unique painted photograph,
the countess gave explicit directions to the painter Aquilin Schad about
how to embellish the scene in which she is depicted fleeing from a
conflagration during a ball. Other highlights of the show include Lewis
Carroll's tableau vivant, Saint George and the Dragon, (1875); René Magritte's sinister staged snapshot La Mort des fantômes (The Death of Ghosts)
(1928); Ralph Bartholomew Jr.'s Eastman Kodak advertisement (1946-52),
which was used in a marketing campaign targeting American teenagers; and
Laurie Simmons's wistful image of the miniature world of a doll house
in First Bathroom/Woman Standing (1979).
Raised on the fictions
of postwar consumer culture, the contemporary artists included in the
survey use the assumed truthfulness of photography against itself to
question how we think we know the world, the past, and ourselves. The
installation leaves off at the end of the analog era, bringing the
viewer to the precipice of a brave new world of digital manipulation
that is bound to become ever more seamless to the naked eye.
Grand Illusions: Staged Photography from the Met Collection is organized by Doug Eklund, Curator, and Beth Saunders, Curatorial Assistant, both of the Museum's Department of Photographs.
The exhibition will be featured on the Museum's website, as well as on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter via the hashtag #MetGrandIllusions.
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August 4, 2015
Image: Pierre-Louis Pierson; Aquilin Schad. La Frayeur (Fright),
1861-64. Salted paper print with gouache. Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Purchase, The Camille M. Lownds Fund, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Louis V.
Bell and 2012 Benefit Funds, and C. Jay Moorhead Foundation Gift, 2015.
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Now Open:
July 27-December 13, 2015
Drawn from the Met's collection of drawings, prints, and photographs,
the diverse works in this installation-portraits, caricatures,
representations of theater and war-reveal how expression underpinned
narrative and provided a window onto the character and motivations of
the subjects, the artists, and even their audiences. Using Charles Le
Brun's illustrations for Expressions of the Passions and
Guillaume-Benjamin-Armand Duchenne de Boulogne and Adrien Tournachon's
photographic series as touchstones, the approximately 60 works dating
from the 16th through the 19th century show how artists such as Hans
Hoffmann, Francisco Goya, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Thomas Rowlandson
explored the animated human face.
Image: Charles Antoine Coypel (French, 1694-1752). Medea, ca.
1715. Pastel; 11 9/16 x 8 1/8 in. (29.4 x 20.6 cm). The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953 (1974.25)
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Main Building
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The Cloisters museum and gardens
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Both locations will be closed
January 1, Thanksgiving Day, and December 25, and the main building will
also be closed the first Monday in May.
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Recommended Admission
(Admission at the main building includes same-week admission to The Cloisters)
Adults $25.00, seniors (65 and over) $17.00, students $12.00
Members and children under 12 accompanied by an adult free
Express admission may be purchased in advance at www.metmuseum.org/visit
For More Information (212) 535 - 7710; www.metmuseum.org
No extra charge for any exhibition.
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Artspace presents Summer Reruns
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In Cased You Missed It:
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Summer is the season of reruns, so our team has gone back
through the jam-packed art world calendar to highlight a few intriguing shows from the past six months that you might have missed. If you didn’t get the chance to check these out yourself, now’s your chance to browse other examples of these artists’ work on Artspace. |
ORI GERSHT
At CRG Gallery, "On Reflection"
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YU HONG
At the Suzhou Museum, "Concurrent Realms"
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NOBUYOSHI ARAKI
At Shane Campbell Gallery, "Polaroids"
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BRUCE NAUMAN
At the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain
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RICHARD TUTTLE
At Tate Modern, "I Don't Know"
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SEAN SCULLY
At Cheim & Reid, "Landline"
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