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| Jeff Wall: The Crooked
PathThe Centre for Fine Arts
presents The Crooked Path, an exhibition devoted to the Canadian photographer
Jeff Wall.
In this show, the artist creates a dialogue between his own
works and those of other historical and contemporary artists such as Marcel
Duchamp, Diane Arbus, Eugène
Atget, Walker Evans, Frank Stella, Dan Flavin, Dan Graham, Carl Andre, Thomas Struth, David Claerbout and
Andreas Gurski. 27.05.2011 - 11.09.2011
Centre for Fine Arts, Entrance Rue Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000 Brussels
The Thinker - 1986 -
Transparency in lightbox - 221 x 229 cm © Jeff Wall -
courtesy of the artist
Jeff
Wall is undoubtedly one of the artists who profoundly influenced the art of the
last three decades. Since the late 1970s the Canadian artist [UTF-8?]– with
his large-format photographs, displayed in light boxes [UTF-8?]– has set out
to redefine the paradigms of
photography. Since the early days of his career, his images, with
their references to the history of art and more particularly to classical
painting, have reflected his conviction that it is possible to maintain a
certain continuity even within the canons of modernism and his belief in the
possibility of "painting modern life".
The exhibition The
Crooked Path looks at
the context
that favoured the development of Jeff Wall's oeuvre and seeks to present, via an
extensive selection of his own works and those of other artists,
a trajectory through the photographer's aesthetic concerns. The project
explores
the close interconnections between
[UTF-8?]artist’s own creative process and the influences and questioning that
have marked that process.
Those
influences have been pictorial, photographic, cinematic, literary, and
documentary, in addition to the theoretical positions adopted by Wall himself.
The exhibition
aims to throw light both on the internal logic of his work and on the aesthetic
experiences that have guided his decisions and his work as a whole.
A great variety of
themes that are integral to Wall's work are tackled in the
exhibition: minimalism and the relation to [UTF-8?]‘scale’, historical
photography, conceptual and post-conceptual photography, literature, documentary
photography, and many others. To illustrate these themes the artist himself has
chosen 25 of his works, from the
1970s to today; these make up the core of the exhibition. The
positioning of these works will set up specific relations with a selection of
other works selected
by the exhibition's curators, Joël
Benzakin and Jeff Wall himself. Visitors will be able
to compare Jeff Wall's works with the works of
other
historical and contemporary artists, such as Marcel
Duchamp, Diane Arbus, Eugène
Atget, Bill Brandt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Helen
Levitt, Wols, Heinrich Zille, to
artists closer to Wall's own generation, including Frank
Stella, Bruce Nauman, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler and others, and to a
number of younger artists.
The
Crooked Path,
accordingly, offers the spectator a broad overview of the relationships, connections,
suggestions, and confrontations between ca 130 works of art. With the
participation of Jeff
Wall, a "dialogue" will be established with works that have influenced
his work directly or indirectly and created a favourable context for the
development of his thinking and for the directions he has taken in his work.
This approach will help to reveal the complexity and fertility of his creative
output.
On the
occasion of this exhibition a major catalogue will be published, whose original
concept will be the direct result of the exhibition's "genesis" and
will reflect its overall structure. Led by art historian Hans De Wolf numerous
contributions by eminent specialists will embellish this publication which aims
to be an innovative addition to the literature devoted to Jeff
Wall.
The
exhibition is produced by BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts and will travel after
Brussels to the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostella (Spain) where it will be held in autumn
2011.
Literary
audio guide
Following
the success of the first edition of [UTF-8?]‘Talking [UTF-8?]Paintings’
about Lucas Cranach,
with poems by Stefan Hertmans and Astrid Lampe
among others, deBuren and BOZAR are once
again presenting a series of literary reactions to visual artworks. Six authors
were inspired by six of Jeff [UTF-8?]Wall’s pictures and wrote prose
miniatures in which the pictures are brought to life. These stories are
available in the audio guide in Dutch, English and French. The six authors are
Jean Bofane, Bernhard
Christiansen, Caroline Lamarche, David Nolens, Yves Petry and Chika Unigwe.
Exhibition
curators: Joël Benzakin, Jeff
Wall
Scientific
advisor and editor of the publication: Hans De
Wolf
Production:
BOZAR EXPO
Support:
the Brussels-Capital Region, the Embassy of
Canada
Sponsor:
Nikon
Belux
Visitor
information
Jeff Wall
[UTF-8?]– The Crooked Path
Where
Centre
for Fine Arts
Rue
Ravensteinstraat 23
1000
Brussels
When
From
Friday 27 May 2011 to Sunday 11 September 2011
Opening
times
Tuesday to
Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm
Thursday,
10 am to 9 pm
Closed
Mondays
Tickets
€
8 (for discounts, see www.bozar.be)
BOZAR
info & tickets
+32
2 507 82 00 [UTF-8?]– info@bozar.be [UTF-8?]–
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