Themes of exile and alienation in the early work of Soutine.
Inspired by Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Chaïm Soutine forged a new Expressionist idiom that bridged art history and modernity in its articulation of human vulnerability and existence on society's margins. His impasto portraits, executed in broad brushstrokes, his agitated, frenetic landscapes and his famous paintings of slaughtered animals all express, in vivid colors, an intense hunger for life and profound alienation in an uncertain world.
Despite the recognition his work received, Soutine remained an outsider throughout his life, a stranger to the social manners of his adopted home in France. This catalog focuses on his early masterpieces and series created between 1919 and 1925. Addressing the overarching theme of emigration and dislocation, essays reveal the traces of Soutine's Jewish origins in his work; illuminate the significance of his motifs and the metaphorical resonances of his animal carcasses; and show the influences of Soutine's art up to the present day.
Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) grew up in a shtetl near Minsk. In 1913 he arrived in Paris and moved into the legendary artist residence La Ruche (the Beehive), working alongside artists such as Chagall and Modigliani. Fleeing the Nazis, he died in 1943. His work has proved enduringly influential for artists such as de Kooning, Pollock, Bacon and Dubuffet.
Piet Mondrian had a decisive influence on the development of painting from figuration to abstraction. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, Mondrian Evolution is dedicated to his multifaceted work and artistic development. Initially working in the tradition of Dutch landscape painting of the late 19th century, Symbolism and Cubism subsequently took on great significance for him. It was not until the early 1920s that the artist focused on a wholly non-representational pictorial vocabulary, limited to the rectangular arrangement of black lines with surfaces in white and the primary colors blue, red and yellow. In separate chapters, this path is traced through motifs such as windmills, dunes, and the sea, farms reflected in the water, and plants in various forms of abstraction.
It's All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer's artistic work for the first time-from drawings from the nineteen-thirties to objects from the two thousand-tens. The exhibits selected shed new light on Ungerer's oeuvre by making it possible to comprehend the artistic dimension of the political and stylistic lines and breaks in his oeuvre as a 'freewheeling artist'. His passion for experimenting across genres and the interplay between drawing, collage, and assemblage through which he searched for identity and humanity is thus shown in his work again and again. Developed by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg in cooperation with the Tomi Ungerer Estate and the Musee Tomi Ungerer in Strasbourg, the volume brings together contributions on Tomi Ungerer's life's work by Thomas David, Belinda Grace Gardner, Aria Ungerer, and Therese Willer, with a foreword by Dirk Luckow and Harald Falckenberg.
Rarely seen Pirosmani masterpieces from the Georgian National Museum, accompanying the Fondation Beyeler's major exhibition.
The art of the legendary Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani (1862-1918) spoke to all, from people otherwise uninterested in art to avant-garde artists and writers. Painted around the turn of the century in a flourishing Tbilisi, his portraits, animal paintings, landscapes and scenes from everyday life draw on medieval iconography and testify to a deeply felt sense of belonging. Like Henri Rousseau or Marc Chagall, Pirosmani is one of the exceptional and uncategorizable innovators of early modern art. This catalog demonstrates Pirosmani's painterly qualities in numerous illustrations, showing how his rapid brushstrokes on black oilcloth give the sparsely applied colors a glow as if emerging from a dark depth. As expertly explained here by Georgian art historians, Pirosmani was a contradictory figure and an important part of the art scene in Tbilisi, then considered the "Paris of the East."
A l'automne 2021, la fondation Beyeler organise, avec le soutien du musée du Prado à Madrid, une des expositions les plus importantes jamais consacrées à Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) hors d'Espagne. Celle-ci réunit soixante-dix tableaux, accompagnés d'un choix de dessins et de gravures, qui emporteront les visiteurs dans un voyage vers le beau et l'étrange. Le catalogue de cette exposition présente donc cet ensemble unique, comportant des tableaux rarement montrés à ce jour, appartenant à des collections privées espagnoles, conjointement à des oeuvres-clés provenant des musées et des collections les plus célèbres d'Europe et des États-Unis.
An intensely intellectual painter, Robert Motherwell is renowned for his distinctive Abstract Expressionist style. The seminal artist permeated his gestural works with an expressionism and austerity reflective of the human psyche; at the same time his oeuvre addressed political and humanitarian themes. Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting is an in-depth exploration of his artistic practice. Leading art scholars examine the American artist's turn from Surrealism to abstraction and analyze the major series that developed over his fifty-year career. The catalogue studies the dialogue between Motherwell's art and the nineteenth-century French painting tradition, investigates his relationship to Spanish techniques and processes, with an emphasis on their underlying political significance, and delves into Motherwell's use of ochre pigment, with its evocation of both deep geological time and avant-garde practices.
A Bâle, la fondation Beyeler consacre une grande exposition aux avant-gardes expressionnistes allemandes, portées par Kandinsky et Franz Marc lors de la création de leur almanach du Cavalier Bleu et de l'exposition du même nom en 1912. Présentant ces deux artistes, ainsi que Gabriele Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky, Paul Klee, Alfred Kubin et August Macke, la fondation rend hommage à une période clé de la modernité artistique.
Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of Impressionism. His painting La fin du dejeuner, which has been in the Stadel Museum in Frankfurt since 1910, is now the starting point for a far-reaching examination of an important source of inspiration that accompanied him throughout his life: the Rococo. Considered frivolous and immoral after the French Revolution, this style of painting experienced a renaissance in the 19th century and was widely celebrated during Renoir's lifetime. Published on the occasion of the Stadel Museum's major exhibition, this comprehensive volume explores Renoir's multifaceted connection to tradition through illuminating juxtapositions of his art with 18th-century works and contemporaries.
Ce catalogue accompagne l'exposition proposée par la Fondation Beyeler au printemps 2020 sur les paysages de Hopper. Celle-ci, organisée conjointement avec le Whitney Museum qui détient la plus grande collection au monde de ses oeuvres, met l'accent sur les représentations iconiques de Hopper des étendues infinies des paysages naturels et urbains de l'Amérique, un aspect rarement mis en avant dans les expositions du peintre. L'exposition réunit des aquarelles et des huiles des années 1910 aux années 1960, offrant ainsi un large et passionnant panorama des multiples facettes de la peinture hoppérienne.
Paintings and drawings exploring the contradictions of attachment and separation.
Over the past 20 years, French-born, New York-based artist Camille Henrot (born 1978) has developed a critically acclaimed practice deploying mediums such as drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and film to address subjects ranging from self-help and cultural anthropology to social media in its engagement with the changing status of information distribution and interpersonal connections.
Mother Tongue is Henrot's first publication focused solely on painting and drawing, bringing together over 200 works from the series System of Attachment, Wet Job and Soon, spanning the past five years, which address ambivalent aspects of care and the tension between the human developmental need for attachment and separation, beginning at infancy and continuing throughout life. The book is accompanied by texts from Emily Labarge, Legacy Russell, Marcus Steinweg, Hélene Cixous and Seamus Kealy, and a conversation between Camille Henrot and curator Julika Bosch.
At the birth of modernism in the late 19th century, artists across Europe rediscovered the almost three centuries old artwork of the Greek painter known as El Greco (1541-1614). In the Nordic Countries as well, his characteristic rapturous and expressive style was perceived as speaking directly to the rule-breaking forms of expression with which a new generation of artists were experimenting.
His hailing as a cult figure was based as much on the story of his life, though, including the 300 years of rejection and obscurity that made him an outsider idol for young artists. This catalogue traces the inspiration that leading Nordic artists such as Edvard Munch, Helene Schjerfbeck, Nils Dardel, Harald Giersing, and Jens Ferdinand Willumsen took from the works of El Greco, and for the first time specifically explores his Nordic reception in the decades between 1885-1945, adding a hitherto undiscovered piece to the mosaic of El Greco's multifaceted and multinational rediscovery.
A l'automne 2021, la fondation Beyeler organise, avec le soutien du musée du Prado à Madrid, une des expositions les plus importantes jamais consacrées à Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) hors d'Espagne. Celle-ci réunit soixante-dix tableaux, accompagnés d'un choix de dessins et de gravures, qui emporteront les visiteurs dans un voyage vers le beau et l'étrange. Le catalogue de cette exposition présente donc cet ensemble unique, comportant des tableaux rarement montrés à ce jour, appartenant à des collections privées espagnoles, conjointement à des oeuvres-clés provenant des musées et des collections les plus célèbres d'Europe et des États-Unis.
Catalogue raisonné des multiples de l'artiste allemand, édités entre 1965 et 2013 : sérigraphies, héliogravures, peintures, cibachromes, photographies, collages, livres d'artistes, tapisseries et objets.
Guido Reni was the star painter of the Italian Baroque, one of Europe's most successful artists, sought after by prominent patrons. Whether his subject matter was the Christian heaven or the world of classical mythology, Guido Reni was unmatched in his ability to translate the beauty of the divine into painting, which earned him the name "il divino". Later misunderstood and sidelined, he deserves to be rediscovered. Drawing on new research findings, the catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Stadel Museum provides insights into his artistic activities, but also his ambiguous personality. Bringing together his fascinating paintings, drawings, and etchings for the first time in more than thirty years, it offers a new perspective on one of the greatest names of Italian art.
In his large-format paintings, Sean Scully layers colors on top of each other to create opulent paintings. Most of the time, the pictorial composition is strictly divided into vertical and horizontal stripes, while the application of color is gestural and emotional. In the process, "Walls of Light", poetic walls of color of great physical force, powerful and permeable at the same time, are created.
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Langen Foundation is devoted to the musicality of Scully's abstract compositions and their artistic play with the power of color. The spectrum ranges from works on paper from the late 1960s, to his expansive paintings, and monumental steel and iron sculptures of recent years, with which Scully's idea of art leaves the exhibition space and transcends into the outside world.
Pivotal in modern art's move towards abstraction, Piet Mondrian's oeuvre is extraordinarily versatile and complex. Not only did he paint and draw, he also wrote extensively about his thoughts and theories on art and life. Moving from traditional Dutch landscape painting to a pronounced rhythmic framework focusing on compositional structure rather than naturalistic representation, Mondrian was profoundly impressed by contemporary culture. Thus, he was not only inspired by the pattern of the extensive Dutch canal system, but also by the rhythm of jazz and the foxtrot. Demonstrating the impact of his oeuvre, Yves Saint-Laurent's famous "Mondrian Dress" even made him a fashion icon posthumously.
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of his birth, Ulf Kuster entertainingly leads through well- and lesser-known aspects of Mondrian's life and work offering inspiring impulses for reflection and further engagement with the fascinating artist.
Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half-a-mil-lion visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly established her place in art history. She has also been the subject of documenta-ry films and biographies. In 2013, Iris Muller-Westermann organized the first institutional exhibition of af Klint's work. Now she presents us with the latest information and research in an extensive survey show at the Moder-na Museet in Malmoe. Of crucial importance is the issue of spirituality in af Klint's painting-how she managed to translate both the material and the immaterial world into a pictorial vision. The accompanying exhibition catalogue is the first to investigate, from a variety of perspectives, the question of how this trailblazing abstract artist linked her painting to a higher consciousness. Essays by leading historians of theosophy and a quantum physicist, among others, provide enlightening insight into a world in which both the visualization of atoms and spiritual seances alike became artistic material-a world that fascinates us even more than ever.
The forgotten accomplishments of a trailblazing German painter are restored in this comprehensive monograph.
Despite falling into obscurity after her death, German-Swiss artist Ottilie W. Roederstein (1859-1937) enjoyed success as one of the leading painters in the German-speaking world during her lifetime. Roederstein was able to support herself financially with sales and commissions before the age of 30. She exhibited internationally until 1931, participating in landmark shows such as the Académie des Beaux-Arts' Salon and the 1889 Exposition Universelle. Roederstein successfully dedicated her entire life to art and led an unconventional but respected existence in Germany with her partner, the gynecologist Elisabeth H. Winterhalter. After several decades, the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main finally present the first monograph on Roederstein's remarkable body of work.
In the pages of this publication readers are able to appreciate the evolution of Roederstein's style, from an early adherence to the academy's conventions to a later style characterized by a unique austerity.
C'est depuis son exposition spectaculaire au pavillon roumain de la 56e Biennale de Venise en 2015, qu'Adrian Ghenie est connu du grand public comme l'un des peintres les plus intéressants et les moins conventionnels de sa génération. Ses oeuvres, déjà bien connues par le marché de l'art, ont fait leur entrée dans les collections du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York, de la Tate Modern de Londres et du Centre Pompidou à Paris. Ce catalogue présente un corpus de peintures réalisées entre 2014 et 2019 et fournit une analyse des principales thématiques qui caractérisent le travail de l'artiste.
Réédition fac-similé, avec sa jaquette plastique d'origine, de ce livre d'artiste paru en 1987 dans lequel Julian Schnabel nous livre les moments qui ont marqué sa carrière artistique ainsi que ses réflexions sur l'art.
