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International 05 Art Exhibitions 2015 International 02.10.2015 > 21.11.2015 Art Exhibitions 2015 Eleanor Macnair Opposite page Original photograph Photographs rendered in Portrait with Blue Hair, 2013 by Daniel Gordon 1 Play-Doh rendered in Play-Doh 1 Atlas Gallery Atlas This ‘project’ will be exhibited for the Original photograph first time this autumn at Atlas Gallery. Aerial Suspension detail, The photographs reproduced in this 2009 from the series exhibition range from the well-known conjurations by Clare Strand and iconic to lesser-known images by rendered in Play-Doh contemporary photographers. 2 The ‘project’ was started by Macnair on Original photograph a whim in August 2013 with no expecta- Woman, 1971 by Akira Sato tion of reaching a wide audience. The rendered in Play-Doh images are produced late at night using Play-Doh, a chopping board, a highball glass as a rolling pin and a blunt Ikea London knife. Each photograph takes 1-2 hours to reproduce, paring the image down to just form and colour, before being shot the next morning then disassembled back into the Play-Doh pots. The works themselves no longer exist and the Play-Doh is reused for future renderings, so these photographs are all that remain. The project was shared on both tumblr and instagram and now reaches a wide audience – a testament to the demo- cracy of the internet. 2 5 3 Although there is a strong following Original photograph amongst professional photographers Young Boy, Gondeville, and curators, the project has been Charente, France, 1951 by viewed by thousands of people all over Paul Strand the world who aren’t involved in photo- rendered in Play-Doh graphy as far afield as Kazakhstan, 4 Congo, Mongolia and Bolivia. In the Original photograph modern world we can view hundreds of Jack Crowley with dove, images a day on phones, computers, Munich, 1969 by Will McBride through adverts, on billboards and in 4 rendered in Play-Doh newspapers. The objective of ‘Photo- 5 graphs Rendered in Play-Doh’ was only I take this a step further and pare them Original photograph ever to encourage viewers to slow down to almost nothing, just form and Leonard (Red) Jackson, down and re-engage with familiar colour. They are what they are. It’s my Harlem, 1948 by Gordon photographs and discover new ones. strange tribute to photography’. The Parks ‘On the surface, photographs can con- project has been featured in BBC online, rendered in Play-Doh dense complex ideas and present them The Observer Magazine, Huffington 3 in a straightforward visual language. Post and Design Week amongst others. All images © Eleanor Macnair www.atlasgallery.com International 03.10.2015 > 10.01.2016 Art Exhibitions 2014 Opposite page V S Gaitonde Untitled 1977, Oil on canvas Painting as Process 177.8 x 101.6 cm Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, 1 Painting as Life Mumbai Peggy Guggenheim Collection Guggenheim Collection Peggy The retrospective will comprise over The artist spent months conceiving a forty major paintings and works on new work but allowed for accident and paper drawn from thirty leading public play to ultimately inform the final result. institutions and private collections Never prolific, he is known to have across Asia, Europe and the United made only five or six paintings a year. States, forming the most comprehen- sive overview of Gaitonde’s work to date. Achieving silence was essential in his The exhibition will reveal Gaitonde’s creative process. He equated the circle, extraordinary use of colour, line, form, which appears in several of his canvases, and texture, as well as symbolic with silence, speech with the splitting of elements and calligraphy, in works that the circle in half, and Zen with a dot: 5 seem to glow with an inner light. ‘Everything starts from silence. 1 Gaitonde employed palette knives and The silence of the brush. The silence V S Gaitonde painting in paint rollers and often used torn pieces of the canvas. The silence of the his studio at the Chelsea of newspaper and magazines to create painting knife. The painter starts by Hotel, New York abstract forms through a ‘lift-off’ absorbing all these silences. You are January, 1965 2 technique. The resulting paintings have not partial in the sense that no one 2 a sense of weightlessness, yet their tex- part of you is working there. Your Untitled First presented at the Solomon R ture assures physicality and presence. entire being is. Your entire being is 1995, Oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum in New York in His work spans the traditions of non- working together with the brush, 152.4 x 101.6 cm 2014, the V S Gaitonde (1924-2001) objective painting and Zen Buddhism the painting knife, the canvas to Courtesy Pundole Family exhibition has now come to the Peggy as well as Indian miniatures and East absorb that silence and create.’ Collection and Khorshed Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Asian hanging scrolls and ink paintings. V S Gaitonde (1991) and Dadiba Pundole 3 Untitled 1963, Oil on canvas 182.9 x 106.7 cm Venice Private collection 4 Untitled 1962, Ink and watercolour on paper 55.9 x 76.2 cm Collection of Kiran Nadar, New Delhi 5 Untitled 1954, Oil on paper 27.9 x 30.5 cm Private collection, San Francisco 3 4 www.guggenheim-venice.it International 04.10.2015 > 18.01.2016 Art Exhibitions 2015 New Objectivity Modern German Art in 1 the Weimar Republic 1919-1933 Los Angeles County Museum of Art County Angeles Los Germany’s Weimar Republic, which Opposite page came into being between the end of Heinrich Maria World War I and the Nazi rise to power, Davringhausen was a thriving laboratory of art and The Profiteer culture. As the country experienced 1920-21, Oil on canvas unprecedented and often tumultuous 120 x 120 cm social, economic, and political upheaval, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, many artists rejected Expressionism in Düsseldorf favour of a new realism to capture this 1 emerging society. Dubbed ‘Neue George Grosz Sachlichkeit’, its adherents turned a cold Portrait of Dr Felix J Weil eye on the new Germany: its desperate 1926, Oil on canvas prostitutes, crippled war veterans, and 134.6 x 154.9 cm alienated urban landscapes, but also its Los Angeles County Museum emancipated ‘New Woman’, modern of Art architecture, and mass-produced 2 commodities. This is the first compre- Georg Scholz hensive show in the United States to Self-Portrait in front of explore the themes that characterise an Advertising Column the dominant artistic trends of the 1926, Oil on pasteboard Weimar Republic. 2 60 x 77.8 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe Featuring nearly 200 paintings, photo- Also included are lesser known artists, Situated between the end of World 3 graphs, drawings, and prints by more including Herbert Ploberger, Hans War I and the Nazi assumption of power, Otto Dix than 50 artists, many of whom are little Finsler, Georg Schrimpf, Heinrich Maria Germany’s first democracy thrived as a Portait of the Lawyer known in the United States. Key figures Davringhausen, Carl Grossberg, and laboratory for widespread cultural Hugo Simons like Otto Dix, George Grosz, Christian Aenne Biermann. Special attention is achievement, witnessing the end of 1925, Tempera and oil on Schad, August Sander, and Max devoted to the juxtaposition of painting Expressionism, the exuberant anti-art plywood Beckmann – whose heterogeneous and photography, offering the opportu- activities of the Dadaists, the establish- 100.3 × 70.3 cm careers are essential to understanding nity to examine the similarities and ment of the Bauhaus design school, and Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal 20th century German modernism. differences between the diverse media. the emergence of a new realism. 4 Christian Schad (LACMA) Half Nude 1929, Oil on canvas 55.5 x 53.5 cm Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal 5 Karl Völker Picture of Industry c1924, Oil on canvas 93 x 93 cm Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, 3 45 Halle (Saale) www.lacma.org International 07.10.2015 > 24.01.2016 Art Exhibitions 2015 Opposite page Masterworks in Dialogue Sandro Botticelli Idealised Portrait of a Lady Eminent Guests for the Städel c1480-85 Städel Museum, Frankfurt Museum’s 200th Anniversary 1 Jan van Eyck Städel Museum Städel The Städel Museum will host sixty-five Works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Annunciation masterpieces from the world’s most Fra Angelico, Johannes Vermeer or c1434-36 renowned museums (Albertina, Museo Nicolas Poussin bear close relationships National Gallery of Art, Thyssen-Bornemisza, Victoria & Albert to works from the Städel’s Old Masters Washington Museum, Musée d’Orsay, National collection. Masterworks by Edgar Degas, Gallery of Ireland, Mauritshuis, Tate, Max Liebermann, Pablo Picasso and Vatican Museums, National Gallery of Franz Marc will sojourn in the Modern Art, Washington) together with selected Art collection, and examples by Martin works from its own collection. The out- Kippenberger, Georg Baselitz, Thomas standing Städel works will represent a Struth, Daniel Richter and Corinne cross-section of the museum’s history Wasmuht will await discovery in the while at the same time offering insights collection of Contemporary Art. into a collection that has evolved over The Department of Prints and Drawings twohundred years. Companions from will present opera magna by Adam Frankfurt-am-Main far and wide will join them in temporary Elsheimer, Edgar Degas, Rembrandt partnerships and long-awaited unions. Harmensz van Rijn, Ernst Ludwig The show will be the first ever to spread Kirchner and Max Beckmann side by throughout all the galleries of the side with Städel treasures, thus forming 1 Städel Museum’s