Hopper
dal 12/6/2012 al 15/9/2012
Segnalato da
12/6/2012
Hopper
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
This exhibition includes 73 works and it offers an analysis of the artist's work structured into two principal sections, the first covers the years of his training, with works from around 1900 to 1924; the second focuses on Hopper's mature work and is arranged thematically.
The exhibition brings together the largest and most ambitious selection of works by the US artist ever to be shown in Europe, with loans from major museums and institutions including the MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in addition to various private collections and with a particularly generous loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The latter is sending 14 works from the Bequest of Josephine N. Hopper, the artist’s wife.
Within the context of Europe, Hopper is one of the best known and most highly appreciated American painters. Despite this, however, his works have only been seen here in public exhibitions on a limited number of occasions. With the aim of rectifying this situation and of bringing his work to the attention of a wider public, two major cultural institutions of particular importance for the artist and his work have joined forces. The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza houses the most significant collection of Hopper’s works outside the United States, while in the case of the Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris and early 20th-century French painting were key reference points for the start of Hopper’s career.
This exhibition in Madrid includes 73 works and it offers an analysis of the artist’s work structured into two principal sections. The first opens with Hopper’s time in the studio of Robert Henri at the New York School of Art and covers the years of his training, with works from around 1900 to 1924 that start to reveal his particular and distinctive style. Paintings, drawings, prints and watercolours are displayed alongside various works by other artists including Henri, Félix Vallotton, Walter Sickert, Albert Marquet and Edgar Degas in a dialogue that recreates the one that existed between Hopper and these artists at the time.
The second section focuses on Hopper’s mature work and is arranged thematically in order to emphasise the most frequently recurring themes and motifs in his work, while also maintaining a chronological flow.
The catalogue of the exhibition is on sale only available in Spanish edition.
In addition visitors will also find a wide range of publications related to the work of the artist and his biography along with audiovisual material.
Hopper Film Cycle
23 June to 1 September 2012. Fridays and Saturdays, 8.30pm
The exchange of influences between Edward Hopper and the world of film has prompted the Museum to organise a range of activities associated with the Hopper exhibition. Among them, and programmed for the summer months, is a film cycle showing a range of titles that reveal the rich and complex relationship existing between film and painting. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960), Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973), The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977), Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986), Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, 2002) and Mi vida sin mí (Isabel Coixet, 2002) are just some of the films that will be shown on Fridays and Saturdays between 23 June and 1 September in the Museum’s Auditorium at 8.30pm. Free entry until all seats filled. All films are shown in original version with subtitles.
Image: Edward Hopper (Nyack, 1882 - New York, 1967). Hotel Room. 1931. Oil on canvas 152.4 x 165.7 cm.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Paseo del Prado, 8 28014 Madrid
Hours:
Modays to Saturdays, 10am to 11pm.
On Sundays and Mondays, 10am to 7pm.
Closed Monday 20 August.
Visitors are asked to leave the galleries 5 minutes before closing.
Admission:
Collections € 9,00
Hopper exhibition € 10,00
Combined ticket for Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections and Hopper exhibition € 15,00
REDUCED:
Senior citizens (65 and over),pensioners, Carné Joven holders, Fine Arts teachers,
disabled with 33% rating and member of large families:
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections € 6,00
Hopper exhibition € 6,00
Combined ticket for Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections and Hopper exhibition € 8,00
FREE admission:
Accompanied children under 12 and officialy unemployed people.