Julian Schnabel Polaroids: Beyond Infinity and
Grandview
To be Exhibited in the UK for the First
Time
Bernheimer Fine Art Photography is proud to present an exhibition
of
large-scale Polaroids by the American artist and film director Julian
Schnabel
which will be on show at Colnaghi, celebrating its 250th anniversary this
year,
at 15 Old Bond Street, London W1, from 6 October to 12 November 2010.
The
exhibition will coincide with Frieze Art Fair, which will be held in
London from 14 to
17
October.
Curated by Petra Giloy-Hirtz,
the
exhibition will present a selection of photographs, mostly
previously
unpublished, which offer an insight into the enigmatic character of the
artist
and a glimpse into his working environment. Works on view include
images
of Schnabel’s family and friends, such as Lou Reed, Placido Domingo
and
Mickey Rourke, alongside Polaroids of the artist's private spaces within
the
Palazzo Chupi on New York's Lower West
Side
and the interiors and surroundings of his studios in Brooklyn, Montauk and
Manhattan.
Schnabel
took these extraordinary large-format Polaroids, both in brilliant colour
and
black-and-white, using a dolly-mounted 20 x 24 in. 1970s camera, and in
some
cases the artist has painted on the surfaces of the photographs.
Together these Polaroids create a
unique
tableau, both intensely personal and poetic.
Born in New York City (1951), Schnabel
received
acclaim for his Plate
Paintings
in the early 1980s and has created an influential body of work in
the
intervening years, including paintings, sculptures and photographs.
He
has also directed films since the mid 1990s: Basquiat
(1996), Before Night Falls
(2000)
and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(2007,
Oscar for Best
Director). His fourth film
Miral premiers in September
2010.
Exhibitions of Schnabel’s
work
have been held in some of the world’s leading museums and the artist
is
represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Whitney
Museum of Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum
of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Guggenheim Museums, New York and
Bilbao;
Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Tate, London.
Bernheimer Fine Art
Photography,
which is the exclusive representative of Schnabel’s photographical
work
in Europe, is run by Blanca
Bernheimer,
daughter of the distinguished German Old
Master
paintings dealer, Konrad O. Bernheimer.
In
2002, Bernheimer acquired Colnaghi and joined forces with the pre-eminent
Old
Master drawings dealer Katrin Bellinger. Colnaghi’s
interests in photography began in the 1850s when they became the
commercial
distributors of Roger Fenton’s photographs of objects in the
collection
of the British Museum
and when they published, jointly with Thomas Agnew, Fenton’s
historic
photographs of the war in the Crimea.
Colnaghi continued to publish photographically illustrated books on
the
fine arts and to offer prints by well-known artists, the most
distinguished
being Julia Margaret Cameron. It is appropriate that this exhibition
of
Julian Schnabel’s Polaroids should make its UK debut at Colnaghi, the
oldest
commercial art gallery in the
world.
JULIAN
SCHNABEL
POLAROIDS by Petra Giloy-Hirtz will be published in the
UK
by
Prestel on 30 August 2010. Petra Giloy-Hirtz is a Munich-based author and editor whose
most
recent books include Lucas Reiner:
Los
Angeles Trees and Christopher
Thomas: New York Sleeps (both by Prestel).
Venue:
Bernheimer Fine Art Photography at
Colnaghi
15 Old Bond Street,
London W1S
4AX,
www.colnaghi.co.uk
Opening
hours:
Monday
to
Friday, 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday from 11 am to 4
pm
Publication:
JULIAN SCHNABEL
POLAROIDS published by Prestel,
(www.prestel.com)
Petra
Giloy-Hirtz, 192 pages, 100 illustrations, hardcover, 26 x 32
cm
ISBN
978-3-7913-5076-9, Price:
£35
For further information and
images,
please
contact:
Sue Bond Public
Relations
Tel. +44 (0)1359
271085,
Fax. +44 (0)1359 271934
E-mail. info@suebond.co.uk,
Website. www.suebond.co.uk