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EXHIBITION "ART " 4 Jul - Thursday 18:00 - 22:00 - 8 Jul - Monday 10:00 - 16:00 Location F Block B5 FREE ENTRY Supported by the Old Truman Brewery Brick Lane, East London TUBE & RAIL Shoreditch High Street Station - 5 minutes walk Overground services to Dalston Junction, New Cross, Crystal Palace & West CroydonLiverpool Street Station -10 minutes walk Central, Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City Lines and National Rail ServicesAldgate East Station - 10 minutes walk District, Hammersmith & City Lines BUSES West End 8, 55 & 242 East London 8, 26, 48, 55, 57,242, 388 South London 35, 47, 48, 78, 149 The City 26, 55, 242, 243, 388 Here is a link to my online small portfolio for the exhibit; http://www.free-range.org.uk/cgi-bin/portfolio.pl?yearID=18&exhibitionID=976&memberID=24168 In the spirit of Halloween and all that is morbid, Photographer, Joel-Peter Witkin’s macabre photographs document the fringe and distort reality. They read as graphic vintage yet modern, photoshop fictions, but are actually crafted through traditional photographic processing methods. Witkin’s disturbed imagery comes from incident that he witnessed as a small child; a car accident occurred in his neighborhood in which a young girl was decapitated. “It happened on a Sunday when my mother was escorting my twin brother and me down the steps of the tenement where we lived. We were going to church. While walking down the hallway to the entrance of the building, we heard an incredible crash mixed with screaming and cries for help. The accident involved three cars, all with families in them. Somehow, in the confusion, I was no longer holding my mother’s hand. At the place where I stood at the curb, I could see something rolling from one of the overturned cars. It stopped at the curb where I stood. It was the head of a little girl. I bent down to touch the face, to speak to it — but before I could touch it someone carried me away” Much of his work was created in Mexico to get around restrictive U.S. laws and the use of corpses. Witkin’s images violate basic moreLs and sensibilities causing shock and negative reviews. His techniques draw on early Daguerreotypes and on the work of E.J. Bellocq. http://www.edelmangallery.com/witkin.htm This major winter exhibition showcases some 300 works from a unique collection devoted to the iconography of death and our complex and contradictory attitudes towards it. Assembled by Richard Harris, a former antique print dealer based in Chicago, the collection is spectacularly diverse, including art works, historical artefacts, scientific specimens and ephemera from across the world. Rare prints by Rembrandt, Dürer and Goya will be displayed alongside anatomical drawings, war art and antique metamorphic postcards; human remains will be juxtaposed with Renaissance vanitas paintings and twentieth century installations celebrating Mexico’s Day of the Dead. From a group of ancient Incan skulls, to a spectacular chandelier made of 3000 plaster-cast bones by British artist Jodie Carey, this singular collection, by turns disturbing, macabre and moving, opens a window upon our enduring desire to make peace with death. 15 November 2012 - 24 February 2013 Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UKPhone: +44 (0)20 7611 2222 http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/death-a-self-portrait.aspx |
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