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2014-03-05 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Wall, Photographs 1996-2013 DSCN1266
New York Magazine writes: “Wall is an exciting figure because, to put it bluntly, he hasn’t made the capitulations characteristic of contemporary art. Now the subject of a retrospective organized by Peter Galassi for MoMA and Neal Benezra for SFMoMA (and also the subject of a gallery show at Marian Goodman), Wall, who is 60, seems very much of our moment. Yet he cultivates a living relationship to the great Western tradition, struggles to create rigorous formal compositions, and takes subject matter seriously. All at once.”
Jeff Wall has been the subject of numerous shows, especially of late, presumably because of precisely the characterization of him given by New York Magazine. Recent solo shows of Jeff include: Jeff Wall: Exposure, held at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Germany (2007), Jeff Wall, held at multiple art institutes in the United States, including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California (2007). In 2005 Wall’s work was the subject of an exhibition at Tate Modern, London, England, as well as the Schaulager Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Both exhibitions showed Jeff Wall, Photographs 1978-2004. In 2004 the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway, also held a solo show to exhibit Wall’s work.
Along with the prizes listed earlier, Wall has earned the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Art Photography (2001), the Ontario Arts Council, Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2002), the Roswitha Haftmann Prize for the Visual Arts, (2003), and the prize given by the Goteborgs Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2014-03-05 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jeff Wall, Photographs 1996-2013 DSCN1266
New York Magazine writes: “Wall is an exciting figure because, to put it bluntly, he hasn’t made the capitulations characteristic of contemporary art. Now the subject of a retrospective organized by Peter Galassi for MoMA and Neal Benezra for SFMoMA (and also the subject of a gallery show at Marian Goodman), Wall, who is 60, seems very much of our moment. Yet he cultivates a living relationship to the great Western tradition, struggles to create rigorous formal compositions, and takes subject matter seriously. All at once.”
Jeff Wall has been the subject of numerous shows, especially of late, presumably because of precisely the characterization of him given by New York Magazine. Recent solo shows of Jeff include: Jeff Wall: Exposure, held at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Germany (2007), Jeff Wall, held at multiple art institutes in the United States, including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California (2007). In 2005 Wall’s work was the subject of an exhibition at Tate Modern, London, England, as well as the Schaulager Museum, Basel, Switzerland. Both exhibitions showed Jeff Wall, Photographs 1978-2004. In 2004 the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway, also held a solo show to exhibit Wall’s work.
Along with the prizes listed earlier, Wall has earned the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Art Photography (2001), the Ontario Arts Council, Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2002), the Roswitha Haftmann Prize for the Visual Arts, (2003), and the prize given by the Goteborgs Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden.