Two exhibitions
dal 21/6/2014 al 27/9/2014
Segnalato da
21/6/2014
Two exhibitions
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
The exhibition 'Durer's Women: Image of Devotion & Desire' features over fifty of his impressions and considers the artist's multivalent depictions of women over the course of his career. 'Yoga: The Art of Transformation' explores yoga's meanings and transformations over time, including its entry into the global arena; yoga's goals of spiritual enlightenment, worldly power and health and well-being; and the beauty and profundity of Indian art.
Dürer's Women: Images of Devotion & Desire
Sunday, June 22, 2014 to Sunday, September 28, 2014
Prints and Drawings Gallery
Unequaled in his artistic and technical execution of woodcuts and engravings, 16th-century German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) revolutionized the art of printmaking. The exhibition Dürer’s Women: Image of Devotion & Desire features over fifty of his impressions from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s distinguished collection of Dürer’s prints and considers the artist’s multivalent depictions of women over the course of his career.
Exploring such themes as love, temptation, and power, this exhibition juxtaposes Dürer’s more traditional religious imagery of the Madonna and saints with his more complex and ambiguous secular depictions of women. Dürer’s representations of the Virgin showcase her devotion to God and the pure and unconditional love of a mother for her child. She is the ultimate virtuous woman and an exemplary role model for those of her gender. In contrast, the female protagonists of Dürer’s nonreligious prints illustrate the numerous perceived dangers associated with women during the early 16th century. Allegorical and mythological representations of goddesses such as Venus and Nemesis convey temptation, retribution, and power over men’s fates while images of abduction and violence, possible witchcraft, dangerous liaisons, and the understated authority of common women reveal Dürer’s engagement with a wide array of obscure and popular themes about feminine power—both beneficent and destructive—during this period.
Highlights of the exhibition include Dürer’s extensive Life of the Virgin woodcut series, the 1504 engraving of Adam and Eve, Nemesis (Large Fortune), and one of his most compelling engravings, Melencolia I. Dürer’s prints have not been the subject of an exhibition at the CMA since the early 1990s and the exhibition offers an exceptional opportunity to view, enjoy, and contemplate the creativity and intellectual complexity of this gifted artist.
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Yoga: The Art of Transformation
Sunday, June 22, 2014 to Sunday, September 7, 2014
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall
All over the world, millions of people—including sixteen million Americans—practice yoga for health benefits and to find spiritual calm. Practitioners and non-practitioners alike are aware of yoga’s origins in India. But very few know of yoga’s rich visual history, which reveals its profound philosophical underpinnings, its goals of transforming both body and consciousness, the diverse social roles yogic practitioners have played, and its transformations over time and across communities.
The Cleveland Museum of Art will present Yoga: The Art of Transformation, the world’s first exhibition about yoga’s visual history, will explore yoga’s meanings and transformations over time, including its entry into the global arena; yoga’s goals of spiritual enlightenment, worldly power and health and well-being; and the beauty and profundity of Indian art.
Works will include sculptural masterpieces of historical and divine yogis, exquisite Mughal paintings of militant yogis and romantic heroes, Islamic divination texts, fifteen-foot scrolls depicting the chakras (energy centers of the body), nineteenth-century photography and early films. Noteworthy objects include an installation that reunites for the first time three monumental stone yoginis from a tenth-century Chola temple; ten folios from the first illustrated compilation of asanas (yogic postures) from 1602, never before exhibited in the United States; and Hindoo Fakir by Thomas Edison, the first film on an Indian subject ever produced (1906).
Yoga: The Art of Transformation is organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution with support from the Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, and the Ebrahimi Family Foundation.
Image: Albrecht Dürer, Four Naked Women, 1497. Engraving, Sheet - h:19.00 w:13.10 cm (h:7 7/16 w:5 1/8 inches). Gift of Howard E. Wise in memory of his parents, Samuel D. and May W. Wise by exchange 1990.85
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