Julian Schnabel
dal 21/10/2011 al 2/12/2011
Segnalato da
21/10/2011
Julian Schnabel
Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
Photography has always been present in his works, particularly in his paintings in which he often uses old pictures recovered by painting, as he continues to do in his Polaroids. On the occasion of the FIAC art fair, the gallery presents two solo shows (in Paris and in Shanghai) of worlwide famous artist in collaboration with Petra Giloy Hirtz, author of the complete 'Julian Schnabel. Polaroids' book.
Known as one of the most important figures, but also the time ‘enfant terrible’, of the neo-expressionism movement of the eighties; Julian Schnabel is considered as a real star of the contemporary art scene. Photography has always been present in his works particularly in his paintings in which he often uses old pictures recovered by painting, as he continues to do in his Polaroïds. Julian Schnabel is a multidisciplinary artist, a genius touche-à-tout, art is an integral part of his person and he also declares “ The painting is like the breath for me. It’s what I do all along. Every day, I do art, even in the painting, the writing or making movies.”
Julian Schnabel (born in New York City in 1951) lives and works in New York, as well as in Montauk, Long Island.
In 1996, Julian Schnabel wrote the screenplay and directed Basquiat, a film about his artist friend Jean-Michel Basquiat of New York. The film was shown worldwide and was part of the official selection of the Venice Film Festival in 1996. His second film, Before Night Falls, which tells the story of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, won the grand prize of the jury and the Colpa Volpi for best actor, Javier Bardem, at the Venice Film Festival in 2000. Bardem’s performance in Before Night Falls earned him Academy Award and a Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor. In 2007 Schnabel directed his third film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Schnabel was selected as Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival and received a Golden Globe as Best Director. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was nominated for four Oscars. His new film, Miral starring Freida Pinto, based on the novel by Rula Jebreal (La strada dei fiori di Miral, 2004) and shot in Palestine in 2009, is released in 2010 in Europe, in 2011 in the United States of America.
Schnabel’s work has been exhibited throughout the world. In the 1980s, he was invited to participate in a number of important group exhibitions such as the Biennale di Venezia (1980), the Whitney Biennial, New York (1981); the Royal Academy of Arts, London (1981), and the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1983). There have been numerous retrospectives of his art, for example, at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1982), the Tate Gallery, London (1983), the Whitechapel Gallery, London (1987), the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1987), the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1987), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1987), the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (1989), the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich (1989), the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1989), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1989), the Museo de Monterrey, Mexico (1994), the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1995), the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2004), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palacio Velazquez, Madrid (2004), and in Naples (2004). Exhibitions of his art have been seen recently in at the Saatchi Gallery, London (2009), the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (2010) and at the Museo Correr in Venice (2011).
Schnabel’s works are represented in the collections of major museums: the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Tate Gallery, London, the Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, the Kunstmuseum, Basel, and the Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxemburg.
The book Julian Schnabel Polaroids by Petra Giloy-Hirtz (Prestel Publishing) - presented at the New York Public Library September 2010 - received the German Award for Photography Books 2011.
Curated in collaboration with Petra Giloy-Hirtz
Image: Untitled (Palazzo Chupi)
Opening 22 October, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm
Gallery Magda Danysz
78 rue Amelot, Paris 11
Opening Hours: tuesday-friday, 11 am-7 pm
saturday 2 pm-7 pm