Finding the Unexpected
Sam Shaw
60 Years of Photography
21 May to 17 September 2017
With the exhibition Finding the Unexpected. SAM SHAW. 60 Years of Photography, LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen dedicates itself to one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. The various facets of the multifaceted work of Shaw, born in New York, are highlighted in a detailed and extensive presentation. Icons such as Marilyn Monroe from The Seven Year Itch can be seen (who doesn't remember the fluttering pleats skirt?) alongside his inventive portraits of artists and photo stories of poverty and crime.
Sam Shaw's career began as a photographer for Collier's magazine. He gained prominence with the essay How America Lives, displaying the multifarious faces of everyday American life in the 1940s far removed from the glitz and glamour of his later Hollywood shots. Portraits of stars, artists and intellectuals of the era embellish an array of magazine front pages such as LIFE or Look and determine our collective visual memory until the present day.
Movies are the major role model for his photography. As a result, Shaw frequently uses unusual perspectives reminiscent of camera angles in film sequences. An additional interest in painting is not only witnessed in the portraits of artists but also in highly painterly shots achieved using lenses with a longer focal length. The photographs have a narrative nature and are often designed as a series: whether the photographer accompanies Sophia Loren on a day of filming or pursuing children at play. Many motifs and city landscapes also reveal a graphic interest, and with nature shots Shaw favours early evening or morning hours with a low sun.
A wide-ranging retrospective can be seen at Oberhausen presenting around 230 black and white photographs in cooperation with the Shaw Family Archives New York. In addition to the classics, topical aspects from his 60-year career can also be seen focusing on sport, portraits, crime and the movies.
"Personally, I search to specifically find. For me it's a visual adventure to locate the unexpected or to see what'll happen around the next corner. I've only seldom arranged a photo compositionally – the only exception was the shot of Marilyn Monroe in the series with the fluttering dress."
LET'S BUY IT!
Art and shopping
From Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol to Gerhard Richter
22 January to 14 May 2017
Art and shopping, two things which are closely and seem to be but far apart. Albrecht Dürer occurs as one of the first art entrepreneurs at the turn of the middle ages to modern times. Over the centuries, the fashions of the art market is reflected in overpainting or reinterpretations of themes. Original, copy and forgery, the question arises again and again. Large bubbles such as the Tulpomania of the 17th century to connect art and money market.
The 20th century is all tradition on its head. Marcel Duchamp declared industrial goods to the art, Andy Warhol and the representatives of the pop art supermarket products include in their images. And the behavior of people when shopping is observed not only in Rudolf Holtappels photo series people in a department store . When Gerhard Richter seems to show MOM and daughter Brigitte Bardot with her mother shopping in his painting, the subject of shopping combined with the most expensive painter of the current art market.
The 1960s were trying to break down barriers with new forms such as multiple and pad printing and to make the connection between art and life with the claim of "Art for all". But the gap is getting bigger, the art market is exploding for years and also the financial crisis this phenomenon could do any harm. That art has become the "most expensive luxury goods of our cultural circle" (Piroschka Dossi), it rub the artists. There are critical positions in addition to the general consumer behaviour and also the money, the means of payment for art and luxury, is part of the works or carrier of the images.
This broad-based exhibition, the works of the 15th century to today, from engraving to video installation, combines, illuminates the wide field that combines art and shopping for the first time in this form.
Entenhausen > > > > Oberhausen
Donald, Mickey and friends
drawn in the Disney Factory by
Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson and Al Taliaferro
and Jan Gulbransson, Don Rosa and Ulrich Schröder
25 September 2016 to 15 January 2017
We connect the great Walt Disney and its huge factory Donald Duck, Micky Maus and their often very independent - like Uncle Scrooge - friends and relatives. But who were the Illustrator behind the Disney Empire, who invented the characters and their worlds and developed the Duckburg universe?
The Oberhausen exhibition presents the three old masters: the mouse man Floyd Gottfredson, which the Mausiversum to us on Earth took; Al Taliaferro, cartoonist of the daily newspaper strips with Donald and the nephews Tick, Trick and Track obstetricians and many other family members always still widely unknown. As well as the esteemed founder of duck picks and father of many characters such as Uncle Scrooge, Daniel Düsentrieb, or the shell crackers, Carl Barks.
But the stories continue after the death of these three great artist, and also focuses on the presentation of Oberhausen. The Germany-born Ulrich Schröder draws stories and especially cover around mouse and duck today. The German Jan Gulbransson and Americans Don Rosa let Donald continued his outburst accompanied adventure and bathe with Uncle Scrooge in the money. In original drawings and prints, of which many leaves are to see the first time publicly, can now immerse visitors in the Cosmos Entenhausen›››Oberhausen›››.
The exhibition is one of the most extensive so far shown presentations to Donald, Mickey, and their subscribers. In cooperation with the collection of Ina Brockmann and Peter Reichelt, Mannheim.
Finding the Unexpected
Sam Shaw
60 Years of Photography
21 May to 17 September 2017
With the exhibition Finding the Unexpected. SAM SHAW. 60 Years of Photography, LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen dedicates itself to one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. The various facets of the multifaceted work of Shaw, born in New York, are highlighted in a detailed and extensive presentation. Icons such as Marilyn Monroe from The Seven Year Itch can be seen (who doesn't remember the fluttering pleats skirt?) alongside his inventive portraits of artists and photo stories of poverty and crime.
Sam Shaw's career began as a photographer for Collier's magazine. He gained prominence with the essay How America Lives, displaying the multifarious faces of everyday American life in the 1940s far removed from the glitz and glamour of his later Hollywood shots. Portraits of stars, artists and intellectuals of the era embellish an array of magazine front pages such as LIFE or Look and determine our collective visual memory until the present day.
Movies are the major role model for his photography. As a result, Shaw frequently uses unusual perspectives reminiscent of camera angles in film sequences. An additional interest in painting is not only witnessed in the portraits of artists but also in highly painterly shots achieved using lenses with a longer focal length. The photographs have a narrative nature and are often designed as a series: whether the photographer accompanies Sophia Loren on a day of filming or pursuing children at play. Many motifs and city landscapes also reveal a graphic interest, and with nature shots Shaw favours early evening or morning hours with a low sun.
A wide-ranging retrospective can be seen at Oberhausen presenting around 230 black and white photographs in cooperation with the Shaw Family Archives New York. In addition to the classics, topical aspects from his 60-year career can also be seen focusing on sport, portraits, crime and the movies.
"Personally, I search to specifically find. For me it's a visual adventure to locate the unexpected or to see what'll happen around the next corner. I've only seldom arranged a photo compositionally – the only exception was the shot of Marilyn Monroe in the series with the fluttering dress."
LET'S BUY IT!
Art and shopping
From Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol to Gerhard Richter
22 January to 14 May 2017
Art and shopping, two things which are closely and seem to be but far apart. Albrecht Dürer occurs as one of the first art entrepreneurs at the turn of the middle ages to modern times. Over the centuries, the fashions of the art market is reflected in overpainting or reinterpretations of themes. Original, copy and forgery, the question arises again and again. Large bubbles such as the Tulpomania of the 17th century to connect art and money market.
The 20th century is all tradition on its head. Marcel Duchamp declared industrial goods to the art, Andy Warhol and the representatives of the pop art supermarket products include in their images. And the behavior of people when shopping is observed not only in Rudolf Holtappels photo series people in a department store . When Gerhard Richter seems to show MOM and daughter Brigitte Bardot with her mother shopping in his painting, the subject of shopping combined with the most expensive painter of the current art market.
The 1960s were trying to break down barriers with new forms such as multiple and pad printing and to make the connection between art and life with the claim of "Art for all". But the gap is getting bigger, the art market is exploding for years and also the financial crisis this phenomenon could do any harm. That art has become the "most expensive luxury goods of our cultural circle" (Piroschka Dossi), it rub the artists. There are critical positions in addition to the general consumer behaviour and also the money, the means of payment for art and luxury, is part of the works or carrier of the images.
This broad-based exhibition, the works of the 15th century to today, from engraving to video installation, combines, illuminates the wide field that combines art and shopping for the first time in this form.
Entenhausen > > > > Oberhausen
Entenhausen > > > > Oberhausen
Donald, Mickey and friends
drawn in the Disney Factory by
Carl Barks, Floyd Gottfredson and Al Taliaferro
and Jan Gulbransson, Don Rosa and Ulrich Schröder
25 September 2016 to 15 January 2017
We connect the great Walt Disney and its huge factory Donald Duck, Micky Maus and their often very independent - like Uncle Scrooge - friends and relatives. But who were the Illustrator behind the Disney Empire, who invented the characters and their worlds and developed the Duckburg universe?
The Oberhausen exhibition presents the three old masters: the mouse man Floyd Gottfredson, which the Mausiversum to us on Earth took; Al Taliaferro, cartoonist of the daily newspaper strips with Donald and the nephews Tick, Trick and Track obstetricians and many other family members always still widely unknown. As well as the esteemed founder of duck picks and father of many characters such as Uncle Scrooge, Daniel Düsentrieb, or the shell crackers, Carl Barks.
But the stories continue after the death of these three great artist, and also focuses on the presentation of Oberhausen. The Germany-born Ulrich Schröder draws stories and especially cover around mouse and duck today. The German Jan Gulbransson and Americans Don Rosa let Donald continued his outburst accompanied adventure and bathe with Uncle Scrooge in the money. In original drawings and prints, of which many leaves are to see the first time publicly, can now immerse visitors in the Cosmos Entenhausen›››Oberhausen›››.
The exhibition is one of the most extensive so far shown presentations to Donald, Mickey, and their subscribers. In cooperation with the collection of Ina Brockmann and Peter Reichelt, Mannheim.
LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen
Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 46
46049 Oberhausen
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