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22/3/2008

...and then again printed series

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

This exhibition examines the development of serial imagery in prints, from the early European Renaissance to the present day. Drawn primarily from the extensive collection of works on paper in the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, the exhibition is one of an ongoing series of exhibitions focusing on the Hammer’s permanent collections.

First inspired by the printed book in the late fifteenth century, early printed series frequently depicted narrative subjects drawn from literary sources. Biblical and mythological themes were represented by a wide range of Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and the German “Little Masters.” Dutch artists of the seventeenth century employed the series format for portraying pure landscape, depicting a variety of realistic views of the local countryside. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the development of the improvisational capriccio and artists such as Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi invented variations on fantastic and dramatic themes. These themes of time, landscape, narrative, and capriccio are also explored in contemporary printed series by artists such as Christiane Baumgartner, Chris Burden, Mona Hatoum, and Chris Ofili.

This exhibition is organized by Cynthia Burlingham, Director of the Grunwald Center and Deputy Director of Collections at the Hammer Museum.

For additional images or information please contact Morgan Kroll, Hammer Museum, at 310-443-7016 or mkroll@hammer.ucla.edu

UCLA Hammer Museum
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