Bank Austria Kunstforum | Man Ray
MAN RAY
14 FEBRUARY - 24 JUNE 2018
BANK AUSTRIA KUNSTFORUM | VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Man Ray, Indestructible Object, 1923/65.
Collection Marion & Eva Meyer, Paris.
© Marc Domage, courtesy Gallery Eva Meyer, Paris. © MAN RAY TRUST / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017
This exhibition will explore "the universal Man Ray": the visionary artist who painted, drew, designed, made films and objects, wrote, and worked enthusiastically in typography, book and magazine design.
150 masterworks lent from collections across the world, including paintings, photographs, objects, works on paper, collages, assemblages and experimental film will trace the career of Man Ray, his enigmatic and complex personality, and his work and legacy which paved the way for contemporary art, laying the groundwork for what we see as "art" today.
Critically addressing the issues that appear throughout his œuvre, such as the closeness and distance between male and female physicality and creativity, the exhibition will also focus on Man Ray as a prototype of the artistic networker and catalyst, a "friend to everyone who was anyone" who associated with the most glamorous circles of society.
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“GRANY” FOUNDATION PRESENTS Natella Voiskounski #2 2010 (27) The Spring 2010 exhibition “Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention” at the Jewish Museum in New York was a highlight of the city's artistic season, revealing in particular the artist's Jewish identity. Man Ray, later titled a “prophet of the avant-garde” in America, was born Emmanuel Radnitzky in 1890 in Pennsylvania, the eldest child in a Jewish family of Russian origin. Emmanuel was nicknamed “Manny”, and from 1912 onwards, when the Radnitzky family took the surname Ray, he began to use “Man Ray” to label himself as an artist; while never completely rejecting them, he nevertheless came to free himself from his familial roots. As Man Ray he concentrated on building up an artistic identity which found its realization in creative photography, the visual arts, film-making, poetry, literature and philosophy. |
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