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Expanding the Boundaries: Selected Drawings from the Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg Collection

O'Shaughnessy Galleries West
January 17—February 28, 2010

This traveling exhibition organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts features approximately fifty drawings, watercolors, and pastels selected from the superb collection of Minnesota collectors Gabriel and Yvonne Weisberg. The exhibition was curated by Lisa Michaux, Ph.D. acting co-curator of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

The exhibition and the accoompanying catalogue were made possible with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Exhibitions Endowment Fund.

The Weisbergs began collecting drawings more than thirty years ago, with a focus on works by realist and naturalist artists working in France and Belgium in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exhibition will introduce artists such as Adolphe Appian, François Bonvin, Jules Breton, Edgar Chahine, Louis Weldon Hawkins, Auguste Lepère, Leon Lhermitte, Charles Milcentdeau, and Thèodule Ribot.

The Weisbergs are committed to acquiring drawings that focus on the plight of workers – weavers, tanners, and miners are represented – and that provide fresh, unglorified glimpses into rural life and customs. These images challenge the viewer to consider the less fortunate and those living on the margins of society.

The works on paper range from meticulously executed charcoal studies to loose watercolor sketches, from layered pastels to sheets that combine multiple mediums in innovate ways. From initial sketches for mural designs to highly finished compositions intended for Salon showings, the drawings gathered here represent bold techniques and even bolder themes. They call into question traditional assumptions of what constitutes a nineteenth-century drawing and go far in expanding the visitor’s view of this vital period in the history of art.

Henri Gervex (French, 1852--1929), Study for The Civil Marriage, 1881
Study for The Civil Marriage, 1881
Henri Gervex (French, 1852--1929)
Black and white chalk on tan wove paper
Collection of Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg
L2007.089.045

Tentative Plans for An Exhibition of Selections from the Noah and Muriel Butkin Collection of 19th-Century French Art

O’Shaughnessy Galleries
Late January into late February 2010
A guest curator has been invited to organize a small exhibiton of selected works from the over-180 objects that have been on long-term loan and were recently converted to gifts through the generosity of the late Mr. and Mrs. Noah Butkin and the Butkin Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio.


The World of Piranesi

Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
January 17—February 28, 2010


This exhibition and related events will be partially funded by a Learning Beyond the Classroom Faculty Lead Grant awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.

A multi-disciplinary approach to learning will be presented in this exhibition of ten etchings by Giovanni-Battista Piranesi 1720-1778, particularly directed towards students of Italian and architecture. In a series of practical, hands-on tasks, students will choose the prints for display, write descriptive wall-texts in Italian and English, prepare and act dialogues and skits in Italian, and make sketches of their own interpretations of Piranesi’s designs.

In preparation for the exhibition, working with Lance Askildson, director of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, students will create a website for their sketches and written commentaries on Piranesi’s work. Giovanna Lenzi-Sandusky, professor of Italian language, will make the study of Piranesi’s art and its influence be the cultural component of her Italian language classes in the fall semester of 2009.

In February 2010, a series of invited speakers from Notre Dame and elsewhere will give talks for students and the public on the influence of Piranesi’s work during and after his lifetime.
Bill Kremer in Kiln with pieces for Sculputral Vessels show
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian 1720-1778)
Arch of Titus 1760
Etching 20.25 x 28.25 inches
(51.40 x 71.80 cm)
Gift of Rica and Harvey Spivack
2006.008.003

Markings: Koo Kyung Sook

Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery
January 24—March 7, 2010
Korean born artist Koo Kyung Sook created this set of six prints on handmade mulberry paper by applying photographic developing solution to fabric that was placed over sheets of photographic paper—and then lying atop the fabric. Impressions made by the weight and movement of her body were then scanned and printed by an inkjet printer.

Commenting on her process Chung Hwan Kho observed, “Although she borrows the computer to increase scale, the images cannot be placed in the category of digitally generated art. For the most part, her method falls outside existing photographic categories and might best be called bodygraphs. Regardless how we might choose to label the work [it] presents a new synthesis of her unique and introspective investigation of the body, identity, and existence.”

Planning for a late-February campus visit by the artist has begun.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian 1720-1778, Arch of Tituscopy by Eric Nisly
Marking No. 1 –4, 2007
Koo Kyung Sook
Korean, born 1960
inkjet print on handmade mulberry paper
73.125 x 35.625 inches (approximately)
Acquired with funds provided by the Walter R. Beardsley Endowment
for Contemporary Art
2008.035.004

Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese House (working title)

Gallery location to be determined
March 14—April 25, 2010
Photographs of the 300-yeasr-old Yin Yu Tang home that was moved, piece by piece, from the Huang Village in China to the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts will be on display to supplement the March musical performance of the Kronos Quartet and soloist Wu-Man. Their March 27 concert in the ND Deartolo Performing Art Center will include a commissioned work of music inspired by the ancient structure.


 

 

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