Richard Saltoun Gallery, in London, is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of the career and unorthodox life of French Surrealist artist Pierre Molinier. The exhibition is open from 20th August to 2nd October 2015.
Savage Beauty
Hurry up and open… I am impatient to see!
The V&A will be presenting Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty in London in two weeks. The first and largest retrospective of the late designer’s work to be presented in Europe, the exhibition will showcase McQueen’s visionary body of work. Spanning his 1992 MA graduate collection to his unfinished A/W 2010 collection, McQueen’s designs will be presented with the dramatic staging and sense of spectacle synonymous with his runway shows.
Via: V&A Museum
Image Maker
Provocative, surreal and instantly recognisable: the work of Guy Bourdin marks a high point in twentieth century fashion photography.
The Nakeds
A group exhibition looking at drawings of the body exposed has opened at the Drawing Room, London.
The Nakeds takes as its starting point selected drawings of the single figure by Egon Schiele. From here it considers work by artists from the post-war period to the present day.
“The naked body is frequently the physical terrain artists traverse in search of the inner self. How to represent love, shame, solitude and sexual yearning? Drawing from the self or life model, from reproduction or the imagination, has provided artists with the freedom to explore desires, fears and fantasies.
The Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918) was a prolific and provocative draughtsman. His drawings of the body unclothed or in a state of undress are amongst the most arresting works to have emerged from Vienna in the tumultuous years around the First World War. Working at the same time as Sigmund Freud, in the birthplace of modern psychiatry, the artist was attacked and acclaimed in his short lifetime.
Still dividing opinion today, his drawings tested long-held distinctions between the ‘nude’ and the ‘naked’, art and pornography. The exhibition seeks to explore this contested terrain.”
Egon Schiele, Zwei Freundinnen
Egon Schiele, Standing Nude with Stockings, 1910
Maria Lassnig, Woman in the Bed, 2002
Stewart Helm, The line and the lust, 2011
Alina Szapochnikow, Bust-Length Figure of a Woman, Headless 2, c.1971
George Condo, Nude Study (i), 2007
Joseph Beuys, Girl with Apple, 1954
Rosemarie Trockel, I feel something, 1995
Other artists in the exhibition include David Austen, Fiona Banner, Louise Bourgeois, Enrico David, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Leon Golub, Chantal Joffe, Paul McCarthy, Chris Ofili, Carol Rama, Nancy Spero, Georgina Starr, Nicola Tyson, Andy Warhol and Franz West.
Masculin-Feminin
Hans Hillmann, arthouse film poster for Goddard’s Masculine Feminine, 1966. Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner, Germany.
Exhibition Hans Hillmann: Film Posters at kemistrygallery in London. Aug 21 – Sep 27, 2014.
Via Creative Review
Living Dolls
Today marks the eight year anniversary of the untimely death of Bob Carlos Clarke; the photographer once described as, “Britain’s answer to Helmut Newton.”