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Hyperrealism in Contemporary Art
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Fifth Ave at 89th Street
New York City
Scholars discussed concepts of realism in contemporary art, focusing on verisimilitude as a central aesthetic and conceptual strategy in Maurizio Cattelan’s work and its role in his critical practice. Participants included Dorothea von Hantelmann (Assistant Professor, Freie Universität, Berlin), Valerie Hillings (Associate Curator, Abu Dhabi Project, Guggenheim Museum), Alexander Potts (Max Loehr Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); and moderator, Nancy Spector (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum).
To learn more about upcoming public programs, visit www.guggenheim.org/publicprograms.
Exhibition Tjalf Sparnaay at Museum de Fundatie Zwolle NL.
Since 1987, he has been working on his imposing oeuvre, constantly seeking new images that have never been painted before. What he calls Megarealism is part of the contemporary global art movement of Hyperrealism, and Sparnaay is now considered one of the most important painters working in that style.
Fried eggs, French fries, sandwiches and ketchup bottles, Barbie dolls, marbles and autumn leaves. Artist Tjalf Sparnaay visualizes these trivial subjects and inflates them to enormous formats, an assault on the senses. His paintings hit the retina like bolts of lightning in a clear blue sky. No other painter confronts us quite so clearly with ordinary objects that we hold dear.
Tjalf Sparnaay not only documents reality but also intensifies this by blowing up everyday objects to mega-proportions. This gives him the opportunity to explore every detail very closely and to dissect it layer by layer in order to arrive at the core of the theme. ‘My paintings,’ remarks Sparnaay, ‘are intended to enable the viewer to experience reality once again, to rediscover the essence of the object that has become so common. I wish to reduce it to the DNA of the universal structure in all its beauty. I call it ‘the beauty of the everyday’. The way in which Sparnaay approaches his work refers directly to the seventeenth century. He resembles Vermeer in his lucid use of colour and eye for detail and refinement, while the lighting in his paintings recalls the play of light and shadow in the work of Rembrandt. Sparnaay elaborates on the rich seventeenth-century Dutch tradition of the still life, but does so on an individual and modern manner. He is constantly seeking new images that have never been painted. And he finds them in his own environment: ‘By using trivial and everyday objects, I enable reality to flow from my brush once more. My intention is to give these objects a soul and a renewed presence.’
Sparnaay’s work is spread out over collections worldwide and is regularly exhibited in cities such as New York and London.
Hyperrealism in Contemporary Art
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Fifth Ave at 89th Street
New York City
Scholars discussed concepts of realism in contemporary art, focusing on verisimilitude as a central aesthetic and conceptual strategy in Maurizio Cattelan’s work and its role in his critical practice. Participants included Dorothea von Hantelmann (Assistant Professor, Freie Universität, Berlin), Valerie Hillings (Associate Curator, Abu Dhabi Project, Guggenheim Museum), Alexander Potts (Max Loehr Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); and moderator, Nancy Spector (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum).
To learn more about upcoming public programs, visit www.guggenheim.org/publicprograms.
This image was produced using three bracketed exposures of the same subject, combined and tonemapped using Photomatix Pro software, to produce a single High Dynamic Range image - which reveals far more detail and colour than a single exposure. The image was then tweaked some more in Photoshop CS.
"Untitled (Kneeling Woman)" by Sam Jinks
www.museobilbao.com/uploads/salas_lecturas/archivo_in-69.pdf
This Evan Penny sculpture is an excellent example of "hyper-realism." Truthfully, not all hyper-realist sculptures are equally "real." Some might look convincing in reproductions, but they don't stand up as well in person -- especially on close inspection. When looking, in person, at this particular sculpture by Penny, the illusion doesn't fail. Very unsettling! What I didn't photograph though was the sculpture from the side where the perspective collapses -- that is even MORE unsettling.
Back of Kelly, variation 1, 2005, by Evan Penny, Columbus Museum of Art
Pele Agridoce (Bittersweet Skin) exhibition + Happening at Península Gallery
Exposição Pele Agridoce + Happening na Galeria Península
Porto Alegre/Brazil
Photos: Fabio Alt
The image is grainy because we didn't have cable, and the signal came from the top of the WTC. After the towers collapsed, we had no reception at all.
I never really gave flowers a second-thought. Yes, they are nice to look at, lovely to smell, and even better to receive but eventually, they wilt, wither, then are tossed into the waste. Call me unromantic but that's what I think.
And then I walked into Joana Vasconcelos' Garden of Eden at the Haunch of Venison. Planted in a dark, massive room is a labyrinthine garden of glowing, twinkling flowers - an artificial paradise made of optic-fiber plastic flora and fauna.
More photos here.
Hyperrealism in Contemporary Art
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Fifth Ave at 89th Street
New York City
Scholars discussed concepts of realism in contemporary art, focusing on verisimilitude as a central aesthetic and conceptual strategy in Maurizio Cattelan’s work and its role in his critical practice. Participants included Dorothea von Hantelmann (Assistant Professor, Freie Universität, Berlin), Valerie Hillings (Associate Curator, Abu Dhabi Project, Guggenheim Museum), Alexander Potts (Max Loehr Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); and moderator, Nancy Spector (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum).
To learn more about upcoming public programs, visit www.guggenheim.org/publicprograms.
Part of a series using different techniques to produce really large scale 'hyper-real' still life images.
Published by Discovery Galleries.
Discovery Galleries is an Artexpo New York 2010 exhibitor: artexponewyork.com/
Painting by the French artist Franck Lloberes | See more: www.parisartweb.com/artists/painting/franck-lloberes/ | #Art #Painting #Photorealism #France #FranckLloberes #ParisArtWeb