Exhibition Archive: "Matisse: The Red Studio", Wall Texts Focused
Matisse: The Red Studio
~September 10, 2022
Happy beginning of September everyone.Today I am sharing one of my recent museum visits from August.
I wanted to go to this exhibition of Henry Matisse as soon as I knew that it was on view at MoMA. This time I learned it after it opened, through a curator who visited my studio.
The exhibition is on the third floor in their relatively smaller room(a space divided into two exhibition areas, The Story and The Studio and at the center is open space with benches and exhibition introduction on the walls), but it was a nice show. What inspired me and was for me worth the visit were actually the right side of the room instead of the left main room.
In the left "Studio" room there are the red and pink studio paintings placed at the center and elements such as painting, ceramic, sculpture, and drawing that are painted in the picture are spreadly displayed around the space.
It is interesting to see real objects in the painting that we can compare and see how he converted them on his canvas as a new work. There was also a video of conservators studying his red studio painting using x-ray. Now we are living in the strange era when x-ray exists as a method to look into paintings. I wonder if that would affect today's artists the way they paint. Anyhow, this exhibition inspired me from different dimensions. Rather than painting themselves but about the art studios for artists. We as artists, have multiple and different "art studio" through our lives as artists,
In the right "Story" room, they show his iconic work (especially paintings and publithis time) and his art studio histories and his other works that weren't in the red studio painting.
Below is an archive of wall texts and art in this exhibition. At the bottom I also included official writing from MoMA about this exhibition.
I would say my exhibition archives are very good, because these are photos I took for myself. I could keep them to myself...,but instead I create these exhibition archives outside my iphone album, so also anyone who missed it or would like to revisit too. So please enjoy.
The exhibition is on the third floor in their relatively smaller room(a space divided into two exhibition areas, The Story and The Studio and at the center is open space with benches and exhibition introduction on the walls), but it was a nice show. What inspired me and was for me worth the visit were actually the right side of the room instead of the left main room.
In the left "Studio" room there are the red and pink studio paintings placed at the center and elements such as painting, ceramic, sculpture, and drawing that are painted in the picture are spreadly displayed around the space.
It is interesting to see real objects in the painting that we can compare and see how he converted them on his canvas as a new work. There was also a video of conservators studying his red studio painting using x-ray. Now we are living in the strange era when x-ray exists as a method to look into paintings. I wonder if that would affect today's artists the way they paint. Anyhow, this exhibition inspired me from different dimensions. Rather than painting themselves but about the art studios for artists. We as artists, have multiple and different "art studio" through our lives as artists,
In the right "Story" room, they show his iconic work (especially paintings and publithis time) and his art studio histories and his other works that weren't in the red studio painting.
Below is an archive of wall texts and art in this exhibition. At the bottom I also included official writing from MoMA about this exhibition.
I would say my exhibition archives are very good, because these are photos I took for myself. I could keep them to myself...,but instead I create these exhibition archives outside my iphone album, so also anyone who missed it or would like to revisit too. So please enjoy.
(All photos are my photography, please contact me if you would like to use it for other places. All texts and art in the pictures are not my property. )
RIGHT SPACE: THE STUDIO
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| Middle Right Side in the Red Studio Painting |
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| Left bottom in the red studio painting |
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| Center Top of the Red Studio Painting |
It seems this frame might be the original frame when he painted the red studio.
LEFT SPACE: THE STORY
Some Quates at Outside The Exhibition Area...
MoMA Museum Official Introduction to the exhibition:
"For many years after its creation, Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio (1911)—which depicts the artist’s work space in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux—was met with bafflement or indifference. Today it is known as a foundational work of modern art and a landmark in the centuries-long tradition of studio painting. Matisse: The Red Studio will reunite this work with the surviving six paintings, three sculptures, and one ceramic by Matisse depicted on its six-foot-tall-by-seven-foot-wide canvas. This will be the first reunion of these objects since they were together in Matisse’s studio at the time The Red Studio was made. They range from groundbreaking paintings, such as Le Luxe II (1907–08), to lesser-known works, such as Corsica, The Old Mill (1898), to objects which have only recently been rediscovered.
Paintings and drawings closely related to The Red Studio will help to illuminate the picture’s history: its rejection by the patron who commissioned it, its international travels, and its eventual acquisition by MoMA. A rich selection of archival materials, including photographs and letters, will reveal new information about the painting’s subject and history. The exhibition will also explore the radical nature of its almost entirely red surface and present recent discoveries about the process of its making.
A creative space within the exhibition invites visitors of all ages to draw, write, and reflect on the spaces and colors that inspire them.
Following its presentation at MoMA, the exhibition will be shown at SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark, in Copenhagen from October 13, 2022, through February 26, 2023."-MoMA Museum
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