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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
by Anne-Marie O'Connor
Pamela and Randol Schoenberg, owners of dnj Gallery, present: The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time: of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it: the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and the strange twisted fate that befell it. The Lady in Gold is considered an unforgettable masterpiece, made headlines all over the world when Ronald Lauder bought it for $135 million a century after Klimt completed the society portrait.
Anne-Marie O'Connor, writer for The Washington Post, tells the galvanizing story of the Lady in Gold, Adele Bloch-Bauer, a dazzling Viennese Jewish society figure; daughter of the head of one of the largest banks in the Hapsburg Empire, head of the Oriental Railway, whose Orient Express went from Berlin to Constantinople; wife of Ferdinand Bauer, sugar-beet baron. O'Connor was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and has written extensively on the Klimt painting and the Bloch-Bauer family's efforts to recover its art collection Her articles have appeared in Esquire, The Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor.
Talk and book signing by the author at LACMA on Sunday February 19, at 2PM. Tickets are free but an RSVP is required for this event.
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"ENCAUSTIC NOIR"
Artist Talk With Helen K. Garber Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 4:30pm
Helen K. Garber: Encaustic Noir
Brassai
and Other Vintage Noir Photographers
Helen K. Garber, Santa Monica Rings, 2011, archival inkjet print on handmade paper, antique book shipping crate and beeswax, 21.5" x 23.5" x 2"
Helen K. Garber, Coney Island, 2011, archival inkjet print on handmade paper, antique book shipping crate and beeswax, 21.5" x 23.5" x 2"
dnj Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, "Encaustic Noir" by Helen K. Garber, to inaugurate Noirfest Santa Monica 2012. In Gallery II, we present a selection of vintage works by famed Parisian photographer Brassai and several of his contemporaries. In her new work, Garber recycles imagery from an earlier photographic body, using a layered, textured technique to create completely new work. "Spending months on a 40-foot long technical nightmare for the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture started me thinking about ... working with texture and dimension. I felt that I had mastered the 2-D image and that it was time to move on to something new." Taking her inspiration from film noir of the 40's and 50's and German Expressionism, Helen K. Garber's work is evocative of the minimal black and white cinematic style. Garber uses an encaustic process to adhere her vintage negatives, printed on handmade papers, to reclaimed and salvaged wood scraps found locally in her local Ocean Park Historic District neighborhood and to finish with a fresh coating of beeswax and twine sourced locally from an old independent Venice shop. In this series, Garber has artistically found a way to reinvent her photographic library into work that is entirely new, with stronger, descriptive and expressive qualities. This is Helen K. Garber's second show with dnj Gallery. In the 2010 group exhibition, "Night Lights," her series of photographs, "Venice/Venezia," was included. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with her most recent exhibition held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland. Garber's work can be found in numerous museum collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the George Eastman House International Museum of Film & Photography in Rochester, NY and the Brooklyn Museum. Garber resides in Santa Monica and maintains a studio on Ocean Front Walk at Venice Beach, CA. dnj Gallery is also very proud to showcase a collection of vintage noir photography by artists Brassai, Paul Almasy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Maurice Georges Chanu, Robert Doisneau, Andre Kertesz, Jean Prevel, Geza Vandor and Sabine Weiss. Each vintage print is rare, highly collectible and selected to showcase Paris by night. Images portray from high society, the intellectuals, the ballet, the grand operas, as well as scenes from the dark, bleak side of Paris. Brassai once wrote that: "he used photography in order to capture the beauty of streets and gardens in the rain and fog, and to capture Paris by night." His iconic images, and those of his colleagues, have defined the Paris mystique.
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CURRENT ART EXHIBITIONS IN L.A. |
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EXHIBITION: Helen K. Garber “Encaustic Noir”
Gallery II: Brassai and other vintage noir photographers
SHOW DATES: through February 25, 2012 GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm dnj Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, “Encaustic Noir” by Helen K. Garber, to inaugurate Noirfest Santa Monica 2012. In Gallery II, we present a selection of vintage works by famed Parisian photographer Brassai and several of his contemporaries.
In her new work, Garber recycles imagery from an earlier photographic body, using a layered, textured technique to create completely new work. “Spending months on a 40-foot long technical nightmare for the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture started me thinking about … working with texture and dimension. I felt that I had mastered the 2-D image and that it was time to move on to something new.” Taking her inspiration from film noir of the 40’s and 50’s and German Expressionism, Helen K. Garber’s work is evocative of the minimal black and white cinematic style. Garber uses an encaustic process to adhere her vintage negatives, printed on handmade papers, to reclaimed and salvaged wood scraps found locally in her local Ocean Park Historic District neighborhood and to finish with a fresh coating of beeswax and twine sourced locally from an old independent Venice shop. In this series, Garber has artistically found a way to reinvent her photographic library into work that is entirely new, with stronger, descriptive and expressive qualities.
This is Helen K. Garber’s second show with dnj Gallery. In the 2010 group exhibition, “Night Lights,” her series of photographs, “Venice/Venezia,” was included. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with her most recent exhibition held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland. Garber’s work can be found in numerous museum collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the George Eastman House International Museum of Film & Photography in Rochester, NY and the Brooklyn Museum. Garber resides in Santa Monica and maintains a studio on Ocean Front Walk at Venice Beach, CA.
dnj Gallery is also very proud to showcase a collection of vintage noir photography by artists Brassai, Paul Almasy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Maurice Georges Chanu, Robert Doisneau, Andre Kertesz, Jean Prevel, Geza Vandor and Sabine Weiss. Each vintage print is rare, highly collectible and selected to showcase Paris by night. Images portray from high society, the intellectuals, the ballet, the grand operas, as well as scenes from the dark, bleak side of Paris. Brassai once wrote that: “he used photography in order to capture the beauty of streets and gardens in the rain and fog, and to capture Paris by night.” His iconic images, and those of his colleagues, have defined the Paris mystique. |
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When it comes to art, Los Angeles boasts a spectrum of fine museums as well as interesting art galleries, both large and small. Among the main art institutions in Los Angeles are MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.moca.org/ LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org/ and The Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/museum/ More information on current and upcoming exhibition is available on their respective Websites. |
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UPCOMING ART EXHIBITIONS IN L.A. |
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Michael Krebs and Gil Kofman
March 3 - April 14, 2012 Artist Reception: Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 6-8pm
Michael Krebs
Surplus
Gallery II:
Gil Kofman
Passages: Case Studies in Euclidean Seduction
dnj Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition of "Surplus" by the young Austrian photographer Michael Krebs. In gallery II, we present work by Gil Kofman, entitled "Passages - Case Studies in Euclidean Seduction." In "Surplus," Krebs explores his view that a war of consumerism is taking place. In this war, the victims are consumers who are manipulated into pursuing artificially created needs. Citizens become dependent on their income to buy goods they do not need to remain competitive in today's society. Using powerful references to iconic war photographs, Krebs visualizes the modern western consumer's struggle. As he explains, "By not showing but only referring to iconic [war] images one becomes aware of how powerful pictures are that already 'made history' and have become part of our visual culture."
Krebs was born in Klosterneuburg, Austria, in 1985. After graduating high school, he founded a photography class for HIV-positive children at an orphanage in Honduras. Krebs created "Surplus" in 2010 as his diploma project for the Masterclass for Design at the Graphische, Vienna. "Surplus" was exhibited at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, and was nominated for the International Photography Award in the category "Deeper Perspective." Krebs is currently continuing his photography studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. This is Krebs's first show in the United States. In "Passages - Case Studies in Euclidean Seduction," Kofman investigates a new way he has been looking at the geometry of ordinary hallways, or passages. He states, "I discovered the hallways in this exhibit quite by chance. I was simply trying to get from one place to the next, and these so-called passages comprised part of the material space I was forced to physically traverse and mentally discard. " Mindful of the rigid organization imposed by conventional perspective, he examines the common objects in the hallways - chairs, clocks, doors, knobs and garbage cans-- as independent forms free from the constraints of vanishing points, horizon lines and orthogonals. As the eye rushes down the length of the passage, these objects serve as the focal point of an exploration.
Kofman was born in Nigeria and raised in Kenya, Israel and New York. He attended the NYU Graduate Film School after studying physics at Cornell. He also holds an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. Kofman has also written, produced, directed and edited a variety of fiction, plays, documentaries and other films. He is currently busy working on two separate film projects. He has exhibited his work in New York and has previously sold his photographs through a gallery in Rome. His work is in private collections in New York and Los Angeles and has appeared in the New York Times and other publications. This is Kofman's first show at dnj Gallery.
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