Oustanding! The relief from Rodin to Picasso, [exhibition, Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, 24 May-17 September 2023 ; Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 13 October 2023-25 February 2024]

Prestel Verlag

2023

1 vol. (264 p.) ; ill. en coul., portr., couv. ill. en coul.

29 cm

anglais

Exposition, Francfort-sur-le-Main, Allemagne, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, 2023

978-3-7913-7986-9

Is it painting or sculpture? This literally outstanding exhibition catalog deepens our understanding of a genre-bending medium over the course of nearly two centuries. No other artistic medium transcends the boundaries of our vision quite like the relief; this very ambiguity has tempted some of the world's greatest artists to explore its possibilities. Delving into the subject of reliefs in modern art, this book presents to readers the unique opportunity to do some exploring themselves. From 1800 on, it traces the relief's fluid aesthetic, and illuminates the significance of innovation and adaptation until the 1960s. Opening with neoclassical works that echoed the reliefs of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, the authors examine sculptors who deliberately defied the boundaries of their medium, such as Jules Dalou, Auguste Rodin, and Medardo Rosso, juxtaposing these works with those of painter-sculptors such as Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso. Readers will learn how Dadaists such as Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, and Sophie Taeuber- Arp transformed the techniques of collage and assemblage using found materials, and how Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson or Lee Bontecou ushered in a return to monumental, large-scale works. Filled with highest quality reproductions and photographs, this book celebrates the evolution of a means of creative expression that started as a dialectic between genres and which, over decades, has achieved the status of an artistic medium in its own right. (site éd.)

The relief, an introduction to the subject and the exhibition / Alexander Eiling, Eva Mongi-Vollmer, Karin Schick --- "If you haven't seen the elgin marbles, you haven't seen anything", the Parthenon reliefs and their echo / Eva Mongi-Vollmer --- Polychrome reliefs / Alexander Eiling --- Sculptural narration / Eva Mongi-Vollmer --- Painterly-sculptural reliefs / Alexander Eiling --- Faces in relief / Friederike Schütt --- Contained forms, open planes, the relief and its frame / Karin Schick --- The polyperspectival gaze, on planes in space and spatial planes / Julian Au --- Between vision and touch, optical revision in the relief / Friederike Shütt --- Approximating nature / Alexander Eiling, Eva Mongi-Vollmer, Friederike Schütt --- Designs of the world, the relief as a construction / Karin Schick --- Monumental tasks, post-war designs for wall reliefs / Eva Mongi-Vollmer --- Back and forths, the image support as boundary and space of possibility / Svenja Grosser --- "The painting has no locus, it occurs everywhere", a spotlight on structure / Julian Au.

Ressources documentaires

Musée national Picasso-Paris