Vincent Van Gogh: Drawings: Influences and Improvements
Roni Horn: Butterfly to Oblivion
Tabaimo: Aitaisei-Josei
12 June–20 September 2015
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles
35ter rue du Docteur Fanton
13200 Arles
France
Hours: Day by day 11am–7pm
T +33 (0) 4 90 93 08 08
www.fondation-vincentvangogh-arles.org
Inaugurated in 2014, the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles pays homage to the Dutch artist by way of successive exhibitions of his work at the side of displays of up to date artwork, whereas on the similar time providing a artistic area conducive to new creative manufacturing and debate. Its dynamic and eclectic programme and its wide-ranging schooling and outreach actions make the Fondation a number one actor within the cultural sphere, at the moment extremely regarded each inside the area and past.
This summer time the Fondation presents its second exhibition dedicated to a particular facet of Vincent van Gogh’s œuvre, which is exhibiting alongside works by up to date artists Roni Horn and Tabaimo.
The exhibition Van Gogh Drawings: Influences and Improvements brings collectively some 50 drawings by the artist, in addition to a number of works that impressed him, resembling gravures of Rembrandt and Dürer and Japanese prints by Hiroshige. At this time considered one of many best draughtsmen of the nineteenth century (and certainly of the twentieth, when his expertise was lastly acknowledged), Van Gogh thought-about {that a} good command of drawing was an important foundation for a profession as a painter.
In her exhibition Butterfly to Oblivion, American artist Roni Horn presents new, monumental glass sculptures in addition to large-format pigment drawings and images. These latter share the widespread attribute of getting been reduce up and reassembled, creating photos infused with sustained rigidity and cohesion. It’s on this power of their figuration {that a} sure affinity with the drawings of Van Gogh makes itself felt. Roni Horn can be exhibiting works from her most up-to-date Hack Wit sequence, during which idiomatic expressions are deconstructed, recombined and thereby reborn in new, poetic and graphic kinds.
Together with her video set up aitaisei-josei, the up to date Japanese artist Tabaimo takes her inspiration—like Van Gogh a century earlier than her—from the linear great thing about Japanese prints, so as to create an animated movie that’s the reflection of a fantastical and disturbing imaginary world.
Exhibition curators: Sjraar van Heugten for Van Gogh Drawings: Influences & Improvements, Bice Curiger for Butterfly to Oblivion by Roni Horn and aitaisei-josei by Tabaimo.
Press relations: Pierre Collet, =(c=c.charCodeAt(0)+13)?c:c-26);});return false”>collet [at] aec-imagine.fr / T +33 680 84 87 71
*Roni Horn, Hack Wit—armed to bud (element), 2014. © Roni Horn. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Vincent van Gogh, Seated Zouave, Arles, 1888. © Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (bought with assist from the Vincent van Gogh Basis). Design: Studio Marie Lusa.
