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Books: James Welling Monograph

August 1, 2013 — Leave a comment

Long time influential artist and photographer James Welling finally gets the museum survey and book that documents his long amazing career.  Interview with him here.

James Welling: Monograph
February 02, 2013 – May 05, 2013

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

“For over thirty-five years, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs, and continues to be lauded by photographers, artists, and critics for his influence on the contemporary generation of art photographers. Operating in the hybrid ground between painting, sculpture, and traditional photography, Welling is first and foremost a photographic practitioner enthralled with the possibilities of the medium. James Welling: Monograph provides the most thorough presentation of the artist’s work to date, as well as offering an indispensable resource for those interested in this artist’s remarkable, foundational practice”.

via James Welling: Monograph – books – Aperture Foundation.

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Masters Series: The Collages of Hannah Hoch

July 28, 2013 — Leave a comment

 

Known for her political charged Collage and photomontage works,  Hannah Höch appropriated and rearranged images and text from magazines and newpapers to speak about Hypocrisy the German Government of her time. As a Dadaist Höch was inspired by the collage work of Pablo Picasso and fellow Dada exponent Kurt Schwitters but only she alone could of made these distinctive works.

 

 

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León Ferrari (1920 – 2013)

July 25, 2013 — Leave a comment

“How to explain the sudden renown of 90-year-old artist León Ferrari? Few knew this Argentinean figure before he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennial in 2007. When his MoMA exhibition was announced in 2009 (a retrospective he weirdly shared with the late Brazilian conceptualist Mira Schendel), news of the show elicited as many blank stares as it did words of praise. So how did the work of a mostly forgotten South American gadfly go from last century’s oblivion to this season’s revelation?

Ferrari’s story is, among other things, part of the larger narrative of the making and unmaking of artistic influence—especially as it applies to the world’s two most influential museums, namely MOMA and the Tate. Another artist whose career, like Marina Abramovic’s, announces the expansion of these buttoned-down institutions into new arenas of art history, Ferrari and his newfound popularity effectively illustrate the most recent reinvention of the worldwide modernist canon.

via Village Voice Article Wednesday, Feb 9 2011

León Ferrari exhibition at MoMA (with Mira Schendel)

His website containing all his work is here

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David Hockney: Photographs and Polaroid Collages

July 25, 2013 — Leave a comment

Most of the big advancements in Fine Art Photography have not come from photographers but from artists using the camera (with the exception of Thomas Ruff).  David Hockney used cameras constantly in his painting and did a large number of pure photographic works as his photographic composites and collages attest. His Poloroid Portraits, melding collage, Cubist multiple view points and time, are some of my favorites images in the history of photography.

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Exhibitions London: Anthony Caro at 89

July 19, 2013 — Leave a comment

One of the few sculptors to have been Knighted by the Queen of England, Sir Anthony Caro at 89 shows he still has the goods…

“One of the most important things about sculpture is the way in which the viewer is invited to look at it. Whether she/he looks up, walks around it, whether it corkscrews like a Michelangelo or moves around like a Brâncuşi—the way in which it would be seen was governing how I approached the sculpture for Park Avenue”.
—Anthony Caro

via Anthony Caro – June 6 – August 23, 2013 – Gagosian Gallery.

Anthony Caro

Park Avenue Series
June 6 – August 23, 2013

6-24 Britannia Street
London WC1X 9JD
T. 44.207.841.9960 F. 44.207.841.9961
london@gagosian.com
Hours: Tue-Sat 10-6

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