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Magiciens De La Terre
In the second installment of the autumn 2014 Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, Professor Sarah Wilson considered Centre Pompidou's re-staging of its seminal exhibition Magiciens De La Terre on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. Wilson began the lecture by proposing that both artworks and exhibitions could change one's understanding of time. Outside the entrance to the original Magiciens show, Neil Dawson's steel sculptural installation Globe (1989) depicted an earth with its own pulse and tremendous fragility. It underlined some of the concerns about time and space that energised dialogues between post-structuralist theory and global visual practice in the 1980s and 1990s. Wilson's lecture situated Magiciens, a show that brazenly sought to challenge Eurocentric values with a survey of contemporary art practice and intercultural exchange on a global scale, within a wider moment that reconceived ideas of virtuality, globalism and memory.
Wilson first placed Magiciens in a series of efforts leading up to 1989 that explored the variety of artistic exchanges in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century, including the Pompidou's 1981 'Paris-Paris' and Centre de la Vieille Charite's 1986 exhibition La Planète affolée. These exhibitions, reflected other efforts to reimagine roles for history and the objects that express it. In this regard, one seminal exhibition was Jean Lyotard's 1985 Les Immatériaux, a companion to his theoretical articulations of postmodernity that favored interactions between sound and technology, the charged exhibition space and its curatorial documents, rather than experiences of discrete objects. Wilson reread some of the objects in Magiciens relationally rather than discretely, celebrating lesser known works by artists including Clido Mereles, Huang Yong Ping and Ilya Kabakov. With this remembering in mind she discussed the organization of Jacques Derrida's lecture 'The Concept of the Archive: A Freudian Impression' (later renamed Archive Fever) at the Freud Museum in 1994.
Using Derrida's idea that archives are both violent and tender, Wilson turned to the problems and successes of reconstruction of Archive Fever, Les Immateriaux and Magiciens. While the symposium '20 Years of Archive Fever' brought back many original participants with new webs of recollections as well as homages to Derrida and his legacies, the Les Immatériaux reconstruction at Kunstverein Düsseldorf offered clarity at the expense of the original show's energy. To describe Magicien's restaging, Wilson used painting metaphors. Towards anamorphosis, the show featured disorientations in scale as well as different emphases and juxtapositions. Towards vanitas, Magiciens offered poignant reminiscences of the art world of 1989 as well as an opportunity to affirm its values to a new set of viewers.
While leaving the lecture, audience members were given a poem by Miklós Erdély called 'Time Mobius', that spoke about processes of construction and reconstruction at the heart of learning. The last lines declare, 'Beware of yourself/ That Readying is Ready Already'. By returning to the original circumstances of these exhibitions, and treating exhibitions and artworks as memory devices that activate multiple histories, Wilson's lecture showed how these self-critical endeavors have been 'ready already' for future generations of viewers and readers.Categories: Research Rhythms | Tags: contemporary art, France, Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series | Comments Off
Germany – Memories of a Nation: a 600-year history in objects (British Museum)
Entering the dimly lit exhibition space for "Germany – Memories of a Nation" feels exciting, as does being greeted by a video installation of the fall of the Berlin Wall, people on the street celebrating, driving in old trabants and waving blissfully at the camera. Germany is united again! Yet, celebrations are accompanied by a somewhat gloomy quote from Georg Baselitz, whose Eagle unpretentiously finds its space in the corner: "What I could never escape was Germany, and being German." What is one to expect?
The somewhat confusing messages at the entrance are soon replaced by a celebratory mood with the following displays. Muted green and blue walls accentuating the old nation's wealth with paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger and softly lit vitrines inhabited by ancient maps, precious coins, beakers and tankards all allude to the great history of the Holy Roman Empire and the many cities it contained. They used to be German – but are no longer. It is only through the objects themselves that the complexity of "German" identity is implied, one that does not necessarily correspond with either historical or contemporary national boundaries.
The objects on display are often rather splendid choices, and really do show the best of German culture: a Gutenberg Bible, Dürer's magnificent prints, Bauhaus designs and post-war works by Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter. It is obvious from the display and its presentation that this is a celebration of a culture looking to reinvent itself, perfectly executed after Erich Hobsbawm's "Invention of Tradition." Encapsulated in this aim seems to be a need to emphasise that Germany is more than what happened between 1938 and 1945, or even between 1914 and 1989. The miniscule part of the exhibition that deals with the First and Second World War and the country's East-West division seems unnecessarily cut short, although the replica of the entrance gate to Buchenau is well placed in a harshly lit corner, evoking the bleak horrors of the concentration camps.
In light of the fact that more recent history tends to be at the forefront of people's minds, the exhibition tackles the last 70 years of Germany's history like it was just a little glimpse in its greatness. And while this may have been done purposefully so to show "what else there is," it seems ignorant at the worst, or as a diminishment of what happened at the best. In reference to the exhibition title, we are shown quite clearly what "Germany" wants to remember and, more strikingly, what it doesn't. In a sense, this marks the exhibition as authentic- why remember all the horror if there is also a more glorious history to commemorate? But it also raises questions of historical responsibility, which remain unanswered here.
An exhibition spanning over 600 years inevitably requires abbreviation. But where to abbreviate in this context is crucial, and I am unsure whether the resulting overview of objects does "the German powerhouse" justice.
Julia Secklehner is a PhD student at the Courtauld Institute working on national identities in caricature in interwar Central Europe.
"Germany – Memories of a Nation" is at the British Museum until 25 January 2015.Categories: Courtauld Critics | Tags: Anselm Kiefer, British Museum, Durer, Germany, National style, Nazism, Objects | Comments Off
Reading Race in Some Passing Gestures from the 1960s
A quiz in the April 1952 issue of Ebony Magazine faced its readers with a grid of black and white photographic portraits of sixteen American faces. The title of the page almost excitedly posed the affronting question 'Which is Negro? Which is White?', as the editors relished in the problem of reading race into these unnamed people. Through the portraits' contrasting backgrounds – jumping between light and shadow – the image has echoes of the regimented black/white segmentation of a chessboard, yet the neutral faces of the portrait sitters flatten any such distinct black/white pattern within the grid. The portraits sit as so many grey areas within the whole. In this levelling effect, the image stages the phenomenon of 'passing' as it existed in the 1950s; whereby African Americans with paler skin tones sought to 'pass' for white, and subsequently 'pass' through the checks of a racially prejudiced White American society, and live comfortably like an ordinary (white) American.
Levi Prombaum's paper fleshed out this scenario of passing through a dramatic narration of scenes from Douglas Sirk's 1959 film, Imitation of Life, which he delivered over several stills to suitably cinematic effect. The film follows the story of Annie Johnson, an African American, and her light-skinned daughter Sarah-Jane. Over the course of the film, Sarah-Jane becomes fixated on the opportunities of social mobility offered in the white middle class world that her and her mother have come into contact with, which eventually leads her to renouncing her black heritage (and yet more tragically, her mother) and adopting all the necessary signifiers of whiteness to 'pass' into the society that she craved. At the point at which this kind of 'passing story' faded from American popular culture during the 1960s, Levi Prombaum's research has uncovered a prominent legacy, or scar, of the social phenomenon in the work of certain American artists working at this time.
The main focus of the seminar was the work of Alex Katz, whose brooding self-portrait, Passing, presents a tantalising invitation to consider his investment in the passing narrative. Over a captivating visual sequence, the paper traced how Katz's grounded, solid profile from his original self-portrait was subtly decentred through its careful replication in different colour ranges and media. The resulting range of slightly varying images was demonstrated to create a kind of field for passing, in which the images fluidly 'pass' for one another, for the original, and for Katz himself, whose identity (as the American-born son of Russian-Jewish immigrants) ever eludes us behind the different washes of colour (paintwork which is itself symbolically thin and faintly see-through: bursting the bubble of skin-deep social determinism along racial lines). In these compelling terms, Katz's paintings were considered as meditations upon superficiality and integrity, opacity and transparency: reverberating within the very frame of racial anxiety that dictated the passing narrative.Categories: Research Rhythms | Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Alex Katz, American art, popular culture, race | Comments Off
Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision (National Portrait Gallery)
The idea that an exhibition of assorted paintings, photographs and objects can constitute a 'portrait' of someone is an interesting one. Bloomsbury biographer Frances Spalding's exhibition on Virginia Woolf has added another chapter to the interdisciplinary history of Bloomsbury by confronting the usually only vaguely acknowledged influence of the visual arts on this heroine of literary Modernism. However, it can be complacent about historical stereotype and at times its principle of selection borders on sheer miscellany.
In the first room, a photograph of a ravaged Alfred Lord Tennyson by Woolf's aunt Julia Margaret Cameron joins other portraits of nineteenth-century luminaries. These are delightful to see, but they are of dubious relation to the subject of the exhibition. Together with a rather sadly-skied allegory by G. F. Watts, contextualised as a friend of Woolf's parents, they represent a black-and-white, whiskery 'Victorian period' out of which Bloomsbury (and 'Modernism') miraculously appeared.
Bloomsbury members certainly reacted against their Victorian parents' ways of writing and painting, not least Roger Fry, who went from Berensonian aesthete to Cézanne fanatic. However, I would caution against falling for Bloomsbury's own ploy to cover up its late-nineteenth-century origins to appear cutting edge. In the excellent accompanying book, Sandy Nairne singles out an interesting statement of Fry's that compares Woolf's Modernist language to the verbosity of Henry James, and historical comparisons like this might have been fun to see played out through the objects on show. We are also promised an insight into Woolf's overlooked political life, though the inclusion of a distracting Picasso drawing commissioned for an event at which Woolf happened to sit on stage compromises the show's credibility.
One highlight is an actual portrait of Woolf by her sister, Vanessa Bell, slumped in an orange armchair and Vuillard-like hard at work with needle and wool (c. 1912). It is a provocatively gendered piece: this is an aspiring author – the artist's sister – not writing, but knitting. In the other paintings on show, Duncan Grant appears as inconsistent. His early portrait of James Strachey against a red screen (1910) is the first in a very successful trademark genre of portraits of people reading, though his memento mori Still Life with Bust of Virginia Woolf (c. 1960) is a decidedly dodgy exercise in paragone and defuses the emotional force of Woolf's nearby suicide note. Particularly interesting photographs of Woolf from Vogue are nice reminders of Bloomsbury's talent for self-publicity and its privilege.
This small show makes an interesting case for the significance of assorted visual material in understanding an author. But that anecdotal tendency is worrying because it risks presenting, as many have done before, Bloomsbury itself as something anecdotal. The exhibition clearly makes the point that Bloomsbury occupied a very well-connected place in artistic (not to say political) milieux in the first half of the twentieth century in Britain. But did we already know that? And was Bloomsbury something more?
Thomas Hughes is a PhD student at the Courtauld working on the language of art writing in the later nineteenth century.
Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision was at the National Portrait Gallery from July 16 to October 26 2014.Categories: Courtauld Critics | Tags: British art, Duncan Grant, Literature, Modernism, painting, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf | Comments Off
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination (British Library)
Terror and Wonder, the latest exhibition to be presented by the British Library, is an overview of the Gothic genre from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) to the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman, via Byron and the Blair Witch Project, Hammer and Hitchcock, and all the unimaginable tales and creatures in between.
Although the focus is largely literary, which is unsurprising in the context of the British Library, the exhibition is highly decorative in its presentation and a well-considered tribute to the genre. Dimly-lit and theatrically decorated rooms host an extensive range of objects, all framed with sound and projection elements, from the dictated diary entries of Lord Byron and Sir Brooke Boothby, to looming shadows and flashes of the awakening Frankenstein. The overall effect is fittingly phantasmagorical.
As an overview of the Gothic genre, in all its forms and fantastical expressions, there are occasional leaps in the curation of the exhibit that seem either under-explained or over-ambitious, leaving the viewer to fill in the gaps. Having perceived the intricacy with which Mary Shelley and Matthew Gregory Lewis weaved their Gothic narratives, the almost fanatical excitement of Walpole's interiors at Strawberry Hill, or indeed the obsessive darkness of a look from Alexander McQueen's 'Dante' collection, the flashy realism of Martin Parr's photographs from the Whitby Goth Weekend served as a rather gauche conclusion to the exhibition. Perhaps this was the point. Though brilliantly composed, Parr's photograph of a costumed Goth in mourning attire, sat with a seagull and a fish & chips next to a girl in a neon pink beanie hat, is a sad indictment of a genre that has given us some of our greatest works of literature and film.
The exhibition is strongest when it traces the over-arching themes and aesthetic elements of the genre across time periods, countries and authors. One of the pioneering aspects of Walpole's Castle for Gothic literature is its mysterious origin story, for the author originally presented it as a 'found' manuscript, purportedly penned by an Italian in 1529 and rediscovered in the library of "an ancient Catholic family in the north of England". This is compared to the nameless narrator of Daphne de Maurier's 'Rebecca', and in the Lemony Snicket pseudonym of Daniel Handler, who includes faceless author photos and oblique dedications throughout his children's book series.
It is these connections and comparisons that inspire the most wonder; mapping the development of a narrative style across hundreds of years, and observing the aesthetic elements as they morph and transform. Fear is a deeply perceptive barometer of a culture at any one time, and it is an emotion that seems to fuel much of our media discourse today. We frame our society in terms of what we fear most, and it is in this way that the Gothic genre plunges far beyond special effects, shock and gore, and intricate aesthetic details.
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William Ballantyne-Reid is a third-year BA at the Courtauld, specialising in Gender and Queer theory, with a focus on Post-War and Contemporary American art.
Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination is at the British Library until 20 January 2015.Categories: Courtauld Critics | Tags: Books, British Library, Chapman Brothers, Gothic, Horror, Literature, Romanticism | Comments Off
Rembrandt: The Late Works (National Gallery)
Many an exhibition will market itself as "once in a lifetime". The National Gallery's Rembrandt blockbuster is no different, clearly marking out the rare accumulation of a vast amount of canonical works in one place. Exhibitions of this size take years to plan, fund and curate. Speaking to employees of the Gallery, it becomes clear that this was by no means an easy feat. The question on everyone's lips: will it pay off?
It seems so. Aside from the excellent reviews the exhibition has received in the press, personal experiences have been equally positive. My fellow students are eager to part with their fiercely guarded student loans just to catch a glimpse of seminal works such as "The Syndics" or "The Jewish Bride".
Focusing on his later years as an artist, the exhibition reflects a period of personal unrest. Rembrandt was beset with money worries, and as a citizen he had been hounded by the church for his common law marriage. Facing bankruptcy in 1656, he was forced to sell his spacious house and studio for more modest accommodation. One can only imagine the loss of pride for a man so concerned with self-representation in his paintings.
Yet despite this, Rembrandt was not ready to give up hope. The vast collection of work grouped together in the Sainsbury Wing assures us that Rembrandt's creative energies could not be dulled by external factors. Organised thematically, the exhibition allows us to explore Rembrandt's concerns during the last years of his career, spanning ideas like the representation of everyday life to more internal concerns such as intimacy and conflict.
In fact, it soon becomes clear that Rembrandt's tender nature has not been blunted by hardship. His pen and ink drawing of A Young Woman Sleeping (c.1654), has been attributed as an affectionate rendering of his partner Hendrickje Stoffels. Stoffels, branded a whore by the Church due to her communion with Rembrandt, is here depicted softly in a position of complete innocence. This private insight into Rembrandt's personal life suggests his ability to appreciate simple pleasures despite economic complications.
Rembrandt's union with Stoffels has marked him in historical discourse as a man who didn't always conform. He offers us further hint of this inner rebellion through his many self-portraits of the later period. In "Self Portrait with Two Circles" (c.1665-9), he asserts himself as a wizened elderly man, with a frontal gaze and a hand on his hip. Painted ten years after he declared bankruptcy, Rembrandt is declaring his continued status as an artist. Our eye is drawn to his painting materials, which, undemarcated from his body, are offered as part of his very being. Two circles frame his proud expression, once again reminding the contemporary viewer that money would not stop him from devoting his life to art.
And it is this devotion, arguably, that comes through strongest in the exhibition – not only the dedication of Rembrandt to his art, but also of the gallery to its public.
Evy Cauldwell-French is a second-year BA at the Courtauld, specialising in 20th century interior design.
Rembrandt: The Late Works is at the National Gallery until January 18 2015.Categories: Courtauld Critics | Tags: Architecture, Artist, Late works, Monograph, painting, portraits, Self-Portraiture, The Netherlands | Comments Off
Constable: The Making of a Master (Victoria and Albert Museum)
John Constable is one of those artists who will stay forever loved among the English, but is unfortunately often relegated to obscurity abroad. When I visited the V&A for this major new exhibition of his painting, I was struck by not only how busy it was on a Tuesday morning, but it also appeared that the median age of attendees was about fifty. Comments about the painter's appeal to the elderly aside, this exhibition demonstrates Constable's genius through an unapologetic statement regarding his influences, both contemporaneous and historical, reaching beyond his oft-celebrated colleague Turner. Constable collected over 5,000 prints and numerous paintings during his life. His friend and biographer, C.R. Leslie recounted that, 'Constable died as he lived, surrounded by art, for the walls of the little [bedroom] were covered with engravings'. If there is a singular importance to this exhibition, it is the ability to view Constable's works alongside the art he immersed himself in.
The gallery space itself is much larger than I would have expected and unlike many modern exhibitions, flows nicely from room to room. Although I have done a fair amount of personal study on Constable before, I still felt the displays had taught me a wealth of knowledge. Additionally, Constable's painterly process is outlined beautifully by the curators. There is a clear line of thought that is enumerated through the progression of sketches made en plein air, to larger studio sketches and finally to finished works, many of which he displayed at the Royal Academy then at Somerset House, the Courtauld's current home. It brings together these earlier stages for many of Constable's most loved works, such as The Hay Wain, and the grandiose scale of this exhibition allows the viewer to get up close and see each one individually.
I do, however, take some issue with the curators' use of the term 'impressionistic', which is used once to describe Constable's style. Although it demonstrates that the attitude the French Impressionists are often credited with inventing was actually begun almost a hundred years earlier, it does seem an often inappropriate comparison that belittles Constable's own originality. However nit-picky that may seem, the overall composition, lay out and framing of this exhibition brings to light this great English painter's thought process, and his insatiable work ethic.
Chelsey Randall-Wright is a MA History of Art student at the Courtauld working on Early Netherlandish Art.
Constable: The Making of a Master is at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 20 September 2014 to 11 January 2015.Categories: Courtauld Critics | Tags: British art, Constable, Influence, nineteenth-century art, painting | Comments Off
Anselm Kiefer – A View from a critical distance?
I need to begin with a declaration of interest. First, I am German. Second, I am currently writing a dissertation on another post-war artist. This could explain why I might be a bit more sensitive towards these topics than the average visitor of Anselm Kiefer's large-scale retrospective at the Royal Academy. Nevertheless, I think that I have reasons to my claim that this show is extremely problematic. Good things first: It comprises an enormous amount of work, provides a good insight into the development of Anselm Kiefer's works from his early beginnings in the 1970s to his most recent works from 2014, and it makes perfect use of the difficult architectural gallery space. Despite all achievements, the exhibition dramatically fails in approaching Kiefer's oeuvre from a critical distance.
Some obvious facts first: The earthen colours Kiefer favours, the monumentality of his works, the way in which they overwhelm the viewer, mythological references, the legitimation through German culture and a somehow distorted view on German Romanticism. All of these characteristics are features his works shares with Nazi aesthetics. Kiefer, of course, explains his aesthetic language with the attempt to work through his country's history to understand the horrors of the Second World War into which he was born in 1945. But his visual language expresses a secret fascination for Germany, which strongly contradicts his verbal assurances. His Deutschtümelei – about which I can find no warning anywhere in the exhibition – is what makes me very suspicious.
For example: Plenty of heroic symbols, mentioning of German philosophers and poets, the Nibelungen, Wagner, of course, Parsifal and overall the Rhine, the Rhine, the Rhine. But what is critical engagement, what blind fascination for a fascinating culture? It is exactly this blindness towards the agency of his imagery, which disturbs me.
I could have forgiven Kiefer a lot, but not that his imagery follows his 'cosmology' which is described in the wall text as 'an immense alchemical oven in which spirit and matter find themselves in a continuous process of creation and destruction'. This is simply unbearable. It sounds as if the holocaust is nothing more than a tiny aspect within the big universe – a normal process within the continuous re-negotiation between the metaphysical and the physical. The uncritical reading of Kiefer's understanding of 'oven' makes me want to take a pen and annotate this wall text with footnotes.
In his seminal lecture in 1959, Theodor Adorno emphasised the meaning of working through history. He points out that fascism in Germany is still alive if the idea of a 'nation' matters within a context that has lacked the critical distance of working through the past. My worry is that Kiefer's aesthetics underlines the fascination for a German-ness rather than providing the environment being required for a critical engagement with the fact that this same fascination once contributed to the incomprehensible murder of more than eleven million people – an event so shockingly unique that it cannot be legitimised as a mere incident within Kiefer's cosmology.
Sarah Hegenbart is a PhD student at the Courtauld, working towards the first English-language monograph on the German artist Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010). She explores Schlingensief's late project of an Opera Village Africa as a participatory experiment, which manifests a diversity of themes resulting from Germany's post-war struggles to come to terms with its highly problematic past.
Anselm Kiefer is at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House from 27 September — 14 December 2014.Categories: Courtauld Critics | Tags: Anselm Kiefer, contemporary, Germany, National style, painting | Comments Off
Berlin Biennale 2014
Listening to the sounds of a classical string quartet on the terrace of a beautiful lake-side villa in Berlin's affluent Zehlendorf neighbourhood evokes an image of the past; somehow reminiscent of Berlin's Golden Twenties. This grand venue is however, not the setting for a glamorous garden party, but part of this year's Berlin Biennale. The sound is part of Carla Zaccagnini's installation Le Quintuor des Negres (2014), inspired by an interest in the reconstruction of history, in particular the idea of the noble savage as featured in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Zaccagnini's work pursues the question of how idealisations of the primitive featured in the music of German Romanticism, and the piece is based on a fragment by Nepomuk Hummel she discovered during her research, transcribed for string quartet by Frankfurt-based composer Theodor Köhler.
This sort of scholarly investigation provides a good example of the manner of conception behind the majority of the works at this well thought-out Biennial curated by Juan Gaitán. The research process is the starting point in the creative process, which is then condensed into an aesthetic form.
The traditional centre of the Berlin Biennial – the grand hall in the KW Institute of Contemporary Art – sums up the principle of this biennial exhibition. It resembles an artistic research centre, in which Tonel (like Zaccagnini, an art historian turned artist) engages with commerce from a Cuban perspective. But the emphasis on research does not prevent visitors from aesthetic encounters. In fact, one can discover a lot if one looks closely. For example, the installation Weltall by the artist group Kartenrecht. Do these broken wooden balks comment on the fragility of borders, or do they allude to the garbage flying around in the Weltall? There is definitely space for imagination…
Judy Radul's Look. Look Away. Look Back (2014) provides an interesting cross-reference from the top floor of the KW to a further venue of this year's biennial: the Museen Dahlem. Radul's vitrines touch the controversy of the relocation of the ethnographic collection from Dahlem to Berlin's Mitte. Gaitán's decision to exhibit well-known artists, such as Tacita Dean, Goschka Macuga, Anri Sala and Wolfgang Tillmans, in Dahlem raises awareness for neighbourhoods other than the hipster-esque Mitte, Friedrichshain and Kreuzkölln. Gaitán here makes a clear statement against Berlin's urban planning.
Those mourning the lack of aesthetic seductiveness at this biennial ought to climb up to the last step in the KW, where Zarouhie Abdalian's owl watches over the buzzing city. Her gaze is directed at the TV tower, lovingly called 'Alex'. Might this be the owl of Athena, an attribute of the Greek goddess of knowledge? Maybe it is exactly this: the beauty of knowledge, which transpires through the 8th Berlin Biennale.
Sarah Hegenbart is a PhD student at the Courtauld.
The Eighth Berlin Biennale ran from 29th May to the 3rd August 2014.Categories: Courtauld Critics | Tags: Art and music, Art and research, Art show, contemporary, music, Politics | Comments Off
A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution (V&A)
Art exhibitions come in many volumes. The more and more frequent stentorian blockbusters make London's art offering both important and substantive. However, the noise made by these grand shows – aided by dense crowds, zig-zag prams, loud conversations et al – can drown out the sometimes unassuming but potentially very rewarding tones of smaller displays dotted around the capital.
This display of a century of protest posters, packed into two plain, serene rooms at the V&A, try to jostle, agitate, manipulate and seek attention in various ways. The fact that each work has something specific and immediate to say means that being hung in close proximity to others does nothing to blunt each poster's impact.
The posters have been loosely categorized under nine headings, ranging from revolution and agitprop, via war and activism, to more unmediated, home-made media. The latter includes self-made prints and digital messages, as in the viral video of an unknown woman in a blue bra beaten by Egypt's military in 2011 in Tahrir Square.
These posters, as with anything that has elements of poetic, indirect communication about it, reward sustained contemplation with deeper insights and knowledge at many levels: aesthetic, semantic, historical, cultural, national and more. There is characteristically subtle but dark and even menacing word-play in a British poster that urges that the Tories not only be metaphorically kicked 'out' but, one can only assume, physically kicked 'in'. This contrasts and reveals telling cultural differences with, a less aggressive, less punning German admonishment about the CDU's complicity with Chile ('Since Chile, we know exactly what the CDU thinks of democracy').
Unlike much art and design, language is a critical tool of the protest idiom. Unsurprisingly, it often borders on the manipulative and borrows from advertising, modulating into 'subvertising', as one of the sections is called. In quite a few of the posters, the stark shapes of letters and words and their direct meanings vie with, and even overwhelm, the visual, as in the unequivocal message towards the Vietnam draft by Kiyoshi Kuromiya.
In the most successful, they combine and complement each other and create a communication that is multivalent, even existential, as in the self-critical poster made by Designers Republic (DR) of Sheffield, in 1995. DR were disenchanted with corporate-driven consumerism but acknowledge their role in the process. The imaginary company Pho-Ku (say it aloud – but not in polite company) stands for an anti-corporate identity in the face of increasing global branding.
If you are thinking of popping over to Tate Modern for the Matisse, but just don't fancy the decibels and prams, it might be worth changing course to Kensington and remembering: s/he who shouts loudest certainly does not shout best.
Percy Darukhanawala is an MA graduand at the Courtauld
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Frankfurt's 'Medium' Rarities
Encountering Frankfurt Opera's staging of Leoni's L'Oracolo and Puccini's Le Villi, I was reminded of that old saw about the German weather.
Nixon in China is a three-act opera with a libretto by Alice Goodman and music by John Adams that was first seen at the Houston Grand Opera on October 22, 1987. It was the first of a notable line of operas by the composer.
It is thanks to Céline Ricci, mezzo-soprano and director of Ars Minerva, that we have been able to again hear Daniele Castrovillari's exquisite melodies because she is the musician who has brought his 1662 opera La Cleopatra to life.
Lyric Opera of Chicago, in association with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, has staged a production of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser with an estimable cast.
Puccini and his fellow verismo-ists are commonly associated with explosions of unbridled human passion and raw, violent pain, but in this revival (by Justin Way) of Moshe Leiser's and Patrice Caurier's 2003 production of Madame Butterfly, directorial understatement together with ravishing scenic beauty are shown to be more potent ways of enabling the sung voice to reveal the emotional depths of human tragedy.
Rarely, very rarely does a Tosca come around that you can get excited about. Sure, sometimes there is good singing, less often good conducting but rarely is there a mise en scène that goes beyond stock opera vocabulary.
The Nash Ensemble's 50th Anniversary Celebrations at the Wigmore Hall were crowned by a recital that typifies the Nash's visionary mission. Above, the dearly-loved founder, Amelia Freeman, a quietly revolutionary figure in her own way, who has immeasurably enriched the cultural life of this country.
On March 7, 2015, Arizona Opera presented Dan Rigazzi's production of Die Zauberflöte in Tucson. Inspired by the works of René Magritte, designer John Pollard filled the stage with various sizes of picture frames, windows, and portals from which he leads us into Mozart and Schikaneder's dream world.
There are some concert programmes which are not just wonderful in their execution but also delight and satisfy because of the 'rightness' of their composition. This Wigmore Hall recital by soprano Carolyn Sampson and three period-instrument experts of arias and instrumental pieces by Henry Purcell was one such occasion.
It has been a cold and gray winter in the south of France (where I live) made splendid by some really good opera, followed just now by splendid sunshine at Trafalgar Square and two exquisite productions at English National Opera.
At long last, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny has come to the Royal Opera House. Kurt Weill's teacher, Busoni, remains scandalously ignored, but a season which includes house firsts both of this opera and Szymanowsi's King Roger, cannot be all bad.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is an international database for musicological and ethnomusicological research, providing abstracts and indexing for users all over the world. As such, RILM's style guide (How to Write About Music: The RILM Manual of Style) differs fairly significantly from those of more generalized style guides such as MLA or APA.
Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland returned to the Barbican, London, shape-shifted like one of Alice's adventures. The BBC Symphony Orchestra was assembled en masse, almost teetering off stage, creating a sense of tension. "Eat me, Drink me". Was Lewis Carroll on hallucinogens or just good at channeling the crazy world of the subconscious?
Dominic Cooke's 2005 staging of The Magic Flute and Richard Jones's 1998 production of Hansel and Gretel have been brought together for Welsh National Opera's spring tour under the unifying moniker, Spellbound.
Carolyn Sampson has long avoided the harsh glare of stardom but become a favourite singer for "those in the know" — and if you are not one of those it is about time you were.
Gaetano Donizetti and Malcolm Arnold might seem odd operatic bedfellows, but this double bill by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama offered a pair of works characterised by 'madness, misunderstandings and mistaken identity' which proved witty, sparkling and imaginatively realised.
Saturday, February 28, 2015, was the first night for Los Angeles Opera's revival of its 2009 presentation of The Barber of Seville, a production by Emilio Sagi, which comes originally from Teatro Real in Madrid in cooperation with Lisbon's Teatro San Carlos. Sagi and onsite director, Trevor Ross, made comedy the focus of their production and provided myriad sight gags which kept the audience laughing.
Commenting on her recent, highly acclaimed CD release of late-nineteenth-century song, Chansons Perpétuelles (Naive: V5355), Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux remarked 'it's that intimate side that interests me I wanted to emphasise the genuinely embodied, physical side of the sensuality [in Fauré]'.
An evening of strange-bedfellow one-acts in high-concept stagings, mindbogglingly delightful.
On February 19, 2015, Pacific Symphony presented its annual performance of a semi-staged opera. This year's presentation at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California, featured Georges Bizet's Carmen. Director Dean Anthony used the front of the stage and a few solid set pieces by Scenic Designer Matt Scarpino to depict the opera's various scenes.
Although the English National Opera has been decidedly sparing with its Wagner for quite some time now, its recent track record, leaving aside a disastrous Ring, has perhaps been better than that at Covent Garden.
Encountering Frankfurt Opera's staging of Leoni's L'Oracolo and Puccini's Le Villi, I was reminded of that old saw about the German weather.
Don't like it? Wait five minutes and it will change.
There is a good deal to admire in this double bill, not least of which is the rare opportunity to enjoy two seldom-performed pieces mounted by such a reputable company. However, too often during the evening, I found myself becoming engaged by a tender moment, or beginning to relish a powerful musical development…only to be interrupted by a crass directorial "improvement."
There are really two separate productions going on here (See: "wait five minutes," above). One is the relatively straight-forward and conventional telling of the musical drama in rather traditional and genuinely pleasing theatrical staging. Then there is a concurrent, wholly invented television studio experience that is part reality show. Part game show, part National Enquirer, and all colossally ineffective.
Not that I disapprove of the concept outright. Frankfurt Opera itself used this device to brilliant effect with its televangelical Rape of Lucretia two seasons past. What I object to is that director Sandra Leupold took a cheap, easy way out of having to deal with the (admittedly naïve) pleasures to be mined from the two operas at hand.
Hmmmm, how to make these curiosities palatable to today's audiences? Hmmmm…I know, let's tart them up with game show "Moderators"! The glitzily-attired actors Ingrid El Sigai and Marcus Hosch do what they can with these irrelevant creatures, but seemed quite self-conscious (maybe pre-occupied with the pay check they would at least be getting…)
The three blue-sequin-gowned Vanna White's seemed to have wandered in from another show, waiting in vain for a vowel to be bought or a letter to be turned. But worst of all was the inconsiderate and considerable obstruction by the "cameramen" and "stage managers" who would interpose themselves between the soloists and the audience. No fooling I spent one touching soprano aria relegated to looking at a burly extra's butt as he "televised" her performance to a giant on-stage screen…that…again, no kidding…had a sound delay! Looked like a badly dubbed movie on German TV.
Where the hell to look then? The viola section? The surtitles? The exit????
Heike Scheele's set and costume design was at its worst in the utilitarian television studio which comprised the encompassing space for the shows. However, within the confines of the raised circle on which the actual operas were performed, there was much that was pleasantly colorful, representational, and traditional.
I especially found Mr. Scheele's Chinese costumes for the Leoni to be character-specific and beautifully rendered; the rustic Puccini clothing was also quite delightful, although perhaps the tutu'd chorus nod to Giselle was just too over the top. I also appreciated the clever and appropriate scenic insets that he devised for both pieces,and the competent lighting from Joachim Klein. The show-within-the show, that is to say the actual operas, was often very agreeable.
The credit for that has to begin with the fine idiomatic playing elicited from the pit by conductor Stefan Solyom. He never once flagged in presenting these two (let's be honest) weaker compositions with commitment and authority. He seemed to wring every bit of musical excellence he could from his orchestra, and kept the evening buoyant and forward-moving. He also ably partnered his hard-working singers. Matthias Koehler's chorus, and Michael Clark's children's chorus were likewise also very well-prepared, but suffered the fate of being clumsily and busily deployed in this mess of a concept.
Marcus Hosch (Moderator), Peter Sidhom (Cim-Fen), Ingrid El Sigai (Moderatorin), Katharina Magiera (Hua-Quî), Tobias Jantsch (Hu-Cî) and Chor, Kinderchor and Statisterie der Oper Frankfurt in background
While L'oracolo may have its confusing pseudo-Asian dramaturgy, any minor musical longeurs were glossed over with committed performances. As Cim-Fen (opium den owner) Peter Sidhorn may not have offered the most suave singing, but compensated with great presence, the same that could be said of his interpretation of Guglielmo (Le Villi). Ashley Holland's mellifluous voice was arguably the finest performance in Chinatown, as the learned doctor Uin-Sci. Franz Mayer put his soft-grained, affecting instrument to good use as the rich tradesman Hu-Tsin and Katharina Magiera made the most of her brief moment as Hua-Qui revealing a gorgeous, creamy mezzo.
One of the reasons for this mounting had to be to showcase local favorites, Annalisa Raspagliosi and Carlo Ventre, both of whom were cast in both operas.
Ms. Raspagliosi has already had a big career with big credentials, not least of which was a happy association with the legendary Pavarotti. Here she is undertaking Ah-Joe and more notably Anna in Le Villi. The latter suits her gifts more than the former. At this point in her development, she reminds me of the great Renata Scotto for Anna also commands an unerring sense of projecting the text, effortlessly embodies the character at hand, and seems incapable of a musical false move.
Annalisa Raspagliosi (Anna) and Carlo Ventre (Roberto)
That said, like Renata of yore, she also is beginning to sound a bit like a supremely gifted lyric soprano who has ventured a bit too far into heavier territory (Tosca, anyone?). Her high notes still float, but not without some discernible effort. Her sense of line still commands, but not without a bit of gear-shifting here and there. And the vibrato has gotten a bit more, shall we say, generous? Still, she offers an assured assumption of these two heroines, is lovely as lovely can be, and her Frankfurt public adore her. And why shouldn't they? In an era of pretenders to the throne, her singing is still a connection with Old World Glories.
Before the Puccini, tenor Carlo Ventre was announced as indisposed, something I had suspected during the Leoni where his vocalizing as San-Lui seemed a bit cautious with meslimas a bit labored. Once our indulgence was requested so he could continue as the second opera's Roberto (and who the hell else knows the role?), Mr. Ventre actually sang with more assurance, and even with real abandon. He is a fine singer with a burnished tone, and if a few phrases were husbanded carefully and a few notes grew rough-edged, he not only gave a pleasurable account of his two assignments, but also saved the night!
Like with the German weather then, while I had a great time discovering these two operas in staged versions for the first time, and while I enjoyed so many of the components, I found myself waiting, nay wishing for a change for sunnier horizons. Were the staging to be re-imagined losing the television concept entirely, I can predict the remaining elements would make a far superior evening at the opera.
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Still as close as ever! Miranda Kerr answers FaceTime call from ex Orlando Bloom at gala dinner and introduces him to the table
They had a very amicable split back in October last year.
And it looks as though Miranda Kerr and her former husband Orlando Bloom are still on very close terms, with The Lord Of The Rings star FaceTiming the supermodel while she was at a gala dinner in Sydney on Wednesday night.
Miranda, 31, is said to have answered the call on her smartphone before proceeding to hold it out and introduce her former flame to the dinner guests seated alongside her at the Opera House's exclusive Bennelong restaurant.
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Still close: Miranda Kerr surprised guests at a Swarovski gala dinner on Thursday night when she answered a FaceTime call from her former husband Orlando Bloom and proceeded to introduce him to the table
Surprising: The brunette was attending a white carpet event at the Sydney Opera House when the Pirates Of The Caribbean star called through from London
Amicable split: The model, 31, and Orlando, 37, married in 2010 and announced their separation in October last year, but have since remained close and share custody of their three-year-old son Flynn
Channel Ten reporter Angela Bishop, who was seated beside the former Victoria's Secret Angel at the Swarovski hosted dinner, expressed her surprise as she recounted the event to the hosts of Studio Ten the following morning.
'We were all having a chat and her FaceTime went off and it was Orlando FaceTiming from London - as you do!' she exclaimed to gasps of shock from the programme's presenters.
'And she goes, "Say hi to everyone, Orlando" and we're all "Hi, Orlando, how are you?" down the FaceTime thing,' she continued.
'Did James [Packer] call?' quipped Sarah Harris, but Angela remained tight lipped.
She replied: 'Ah, no,' and carefully dodged all further questions on the matter.
Catch up: Miranda spoke about her love life with the veteran reporter after walking the glittering white carpet at the intimate event
Tight lipped: The mother-of-one gave little away on camera and Angela, who spent the remainder of the night in her company, was tight-lipped when it came to discussing rumoured love James Packer
Miranda has been linked to the billionaire and son of media mogul Kerry Packer, and is rumoured to have sparked his now infamous Bondi beach brawl with best friend and Nine Network CEO David Gyngell.
However, the model has continually fended off speculation as to her relationship status, and speaking to the Today show on Thursday morning, was at pains to make it clear she is currently single.
'No boyfriend,' she told Channel Nine reporter Sylvia Jeffreys, 'Just an occasional date here and there.'
'I'm single and focused on my son and my career, I'm enjoying it.'
'I'm single!' The beauty fended off growing speculation as to her relationship status, and was at pains to make it clear she is single and does not currently have a boyfriend
On the market: The former Victoria's Secret angel brushed her glossy locks from her face as she said she does enjoy an occasional date 'here and there'
Key to her heart: The supermodel stressed a 'good heart' and 'patience' are virtues she looks out for in a potential suitor
The ever glamorous mother-of-one, who has been showcasing a decidedly sexier side since splitting from her actor husband, added that when it comes to a potential suitor, 'a good heart' is an essential quality.
Patience is also a virtue close to the supermodel's heart after she famously made the Pirates Of The Caribbean star wait six months before they shared their first kiss.
'Be patient,' she said, 'That's important I think, its important to get to know someone and really connect with them and I think that was instilled within me from a really young age'.
Apple of her eye: Gushing about the leading man in her life - Miranda's three-year-old son Flynn - the leggy brunette couldn't stop smiling
'He's so posh!' The brunette revealed her son has been taking after his famous father Orlando Bloom and speaks with a British accent
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'He's so cute, so cute!' she said with a wide smile, adding that despite being based out of New York with his Australian mother, the toddler is developing a British accent.
'He has a little more of a British accent to be honest, he's quite influenced by Orlando.
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The couple married in 2010 and announced their separation in October last year. They remain close however, and share custody of their son Flynn
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Publication Date : 01-09-2012
In whatever shape or form, peace is always a noble idea. So when a group of Asian public-policy figures announced they will meet in Bangkok next month to finalise a plan to set up an Asian Peace and Reconciliation Council (APRC), in a bid to resolve regional disputes, there was a sense of optimism in the air. After all, the continent has seen its fair share of intrastate conflicts, as well as sub-state ones.
No one is really sure how the APRC will develop and whether it will evolve into something meaningful. But the name itself sounds like it means business and the initial statement suggests that the council is serious.
"It has been agreed that Asia lacks a peace-facilitating body or institute," former Thai foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai said in an interview. "These are noted and experienced individuals who can help create peace dialogues. Collectively their good offices can render shuttle diplomacy and engage various parties towards peace."
The founding members who have confirmed their participation for the upcoming Bangkok meeting are former East Timor president Jose Ramos Horta; Pakistan's former prime minister Shaukat Aziz; former Malaysian premier Tun Abdullah Badawi; Austria's former chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer; Indonesia's ex-vice president Jusuf Kalla; and the Philippines' former House speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.
But as these "former" public figures make their move towards setting up the council, "current" officials in Southeast Asia have also come up with an idea of their own.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Institute of Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR) will be launched in November during the Asean Summit in Cambodia. The plan was announced at the last Asean ministerial meeting in Phnom Penh. The funding for the institute will be contributed by member-states.
The AIPR was initiated by Indonesia and is part of the blueprint for the Asean Political and Security Community. Some Asean diplomats are questioning the merits of the APRC and its purpose when the regional grouping has already come up with the AIPR. They see the council as an effort by some former officials to generate attention for themselves.
They have a point. While the AIPR is made of up of state actors, the APRC is made up of former ministers, none of whom has any real track record for negotiating peace in an international setting. Some may have helped to bring about peace in their respective countries during their terms in office, but to shift gears to an international setting is entirely another matter.
Southeast Asia itself has a number of sub-state conflicts. Some countries like Laos won't even admit they have armed conflict on their soil. Most have been reluctant in permitting outsiders getting involved as mediators because they all deem the conflicts internal affairs.
In this respect, for the state actors to push for something like the AIPR is a bold move. The APRC, on the other hand, might have to take a backseat to the official track, simply because it lacks the mandate to do anything unless the state actors invite it to the table.
But from the look of it, the APRC could be waiting for a very long time before the Asean member-states change their attitude towards the idea of peace mediation. In the meantime Surakiart and company could end up sitting around a campfire singing "Khumbaya my Lord, khumbaya. Where is my budget, khumbaya?"
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