photograph courtesy musei civic
veneziani
Venice: Candida Hofer at Ca Pesaro - Les
Bourgeois de Calais in Venice - Exhibition.
Where: On the Grand Canal
at Ca Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art in the new Spazio Dom
Perignon.
What: The second appointment of
Paradoxes, A Series of Unforeseeable Encounters between Classic and
Contemporary Art from the museum’s historic collection. One of the leading
exponents of the so-called Dusseldorf School, the Internationally renowned
German photographer, Candida Hofer’s Les Bourgeois de Calais in Venice
exhibition. The exhibition presents a
selection of photographs from her 2001
work, Douze-Twelve, commissioned by the Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle
of Calais, for which she photographed the twelve existing casts of Auguste
Rodin’s Burghers of Calais located around the world. And of which a large
plaster cast can be seen inside the museum.
When: Candida Hofer’s Les Bourgeois de
Calais in Venice – until 29 March. The exhibition is curated by Gabriella Belli,
with exhibition layout by Daniela Ferretti.
Above. Candida Hofer - Les
Bourgeois de Calais in Venice - The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York II –
2000 – C-print – 152x152 cm. Copyright Candida Hofer – Koln/VG
Bild-Kunst – Bonn.
photograph and copyright manfredi
bellati
Ca Pesaro: Auguste Rodin – The Burghers of Calais. Auguste Rodin’s impressive plaster
version of The Burghers of Calais (1889).
The key work by the French artist was acquired by the Comune di Venezia
at the 1901 Biennale and is on show on the first floor of the permanent collection. This
well-known sculptural group, several times replicated by Rodin, has inspired
Hofer, who has photographed the twelve casts by Rodin in their installations
in various international public collections around the world.
Candida
Hofer
photograph courtesy musei civic
veneziani
Candida Hofer - Les Bourgeois de Calais
in Venice - Kunstmuseum Basel II – 2000 - C-print – 152x152 cm.
Copyright Candida Hofer – Koln/VG
Bild-Kunst – Bonn.
Candida Hofer - Les Bourgeois de Calais
in Venice: The dialogue
with the sculpture renders topical all the creative energy of the past, offering
us replicas of a masterly scenographic impact, powerful yet restrained, thanks
to the strict perspective standards typical of the German photographer.
Above: Candida Hofer - Les Bourgeois de
Calais in Venice – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington II – 2000 –
C-print – 107x85 cmCopyright Candida Hofer – Koln/VG
Bild-Kunst – Bonn.
A view from the back windows of Ca
Pesaro
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