Anthony Spira Livres

A major survey of Dame Laura Knight, first female Royal Academician and popular British artist of the 20th century.Laura Knight (1877–1970) was one of the most famous and popular English artists of the twentieth century. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, in 1965. In the following decades her realist style of painting fell out of fashion and her work become largely overlooked. A new generation has rediscovered her work, finding a contemporary resonance in her depictions of women at work, of people from marginalized communities and her contributions as a war artist.This beautifully illustrated book, which accompanies a major exhibition at MK Gallery, provides an overview of Knight's illustrious from her training at Nottingham Art School at the age of 13 and her time in North Yorkshire and Cornwall, to her visits to traveller communities and a segregated American hospital. It also features her circus, ballet and theatre scenes, paintings of women during the war and her late paintings of nature.The selection of over 160 works combines celebrated paintings with less known graphic and design works, including ceramics, jewellery and costumes that reflect the artist's enduring interest in the everyday activities of people from all walks of life.

Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) was a significant and influential philosopher, writer, translator and artist who befriended Georges Bataille and formulated an original stance on many theological issues, as well as the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade. His first novel, Roberte, ce soir, appeared in 1954 as a limited edition containing six of his own erotic illustrations, after he rejected drawings by his younger brother, the painter Balthus. Following the encouragement of Robert Lebel, Andre Masson and Alberto Giacometti, Klossowski held his first exhibition in Paris in 1956, and subsequently produced numerous life-size drawings of erotic scenes imbued with mythological, allegorical and philosophical connotations. By the 1970s, he had won the acclaim of such eminent thinkers as Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Felix Guattari. Of Klossowski, Gilles Deleuze once said, "That bodies speak has been known for a long time."

How to Construct a Time Machine' is an exhibition of over 25 historical and contemporary artworks that explore how artists play with media in innovative ways to transform our experience of time. Artists John Cage, Katie Paterson, On Kawara, Mark Wallinger, Nam June Paik, Catherine Yass, and the Lumiere Brothers.

The first major survey of the work of Ingrid Pollard, a British artist and photographer nominated for the Turner Prize 2022, who uses portraiture photography and traditional landscape imagery to explore social constructs such as Britishness and racial difference.

Wenn ich ein Symbol für Hattans Werk wählen müsste, wäre es die gegen die Raumdecke gestemmte Matratze. Dieses Motiv vereint mehrere künstlerische Fragen, die Hattan aufwirft. Was normalerweise auf dem Boden oder einem Bett liegt, wird durch Stangen an die Decke fixiert. Ahmt es Architektur nach oder spielt es mit der Wahrnehmung? Nach längerem Betrachten fragt man sich, ob man von unten nach oben oder von oben nach unten blickt. Ist die Matratze überflüssig oder trägt sie zur Stabilität der Decke bei – ähnlich einem Kapitell auf einer dorischen Säule oder Atlas, der die Welt trägt? Der anthropomorphe Aspekt lässt uns die Anstrengung nachempfinden, die nötig ist, um die Matratze hoch über unseren Köpfen zu halten, während wir uns selbst durch die Notwendigkeit eingeschränkt fühlen, zu funktionieren, obwohl wir müde sind und Ruhe suchen. Hattan verdeutlicht die Ambivalenz der Kunst, indem er den Alltag sowohl hinterfragt als auch vereinfacht. Sein Skeptizismus gegenüber Abstraktionen und Verallgemeinerungen zieht sich durch sein gesamtes Werk. Diese Spannungen zeigen sich nicht nur zwischen dem menschlichen Körper und der Außenwelt, sondern auch zwischen individueller Vorstellungskraft und dem vereinheitlichenden System der Sprache.