Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Robert Longo
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Museum für moderne Kunst und Fotografien
Robert Longo
PROOF: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo
February 17 – May 27, 2018
Exhibition PROOF offers insights into the particular positions from which artists reflect on the social, cultural, and political complexities of their times, with works by FRANCISCO GOYA (1746–1828), SERGEI EISENSTEIN (1898–1948), and ROBERT LONGO (1953).
From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries across three continents, these three artists experienced the turbulence of a turn of the century as well as the seismic effects of revolution, civil rights movements, and war. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Goya chose the medium of printmaking for his socially critical series of works and haunting images of war. Beginning in the 1920s, Eisenstein dealt with Russian history in classic films such as »The Battleship Potemkin« (1925) and »Ivan the Terrible« (1945). The New York-based artist Robert Longo explores burning contemporary issues such as terrorism, refugee movements, modern warfare, and symbols of power in his drawings ranging up to 7.5 meters in size.
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Museum für moderne Kunst und Fotografien
Curated by Kate Fowle in collaboration with Robert Longo, the exhibition PROOF includes more than forty sketches by Eisenstein along with a selection of his films, which will be shown in large, slow-motion projections so that every single image can be experienced in its individuality.
Over 50 aquatint etchings from all four series by Goya will be on loan from the Morat-Institut in Freiburg, along with 43 works by Sergei Eisenstein from the Russian State Archive of Literature and 28 of Longo’s large-scale drawings from the past seven years from international collections.
PROOF is initiated by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; curated by Garage chief curator, Kate Fowle in collaboration with Robert Longo. The exhibition in Hamburg has been organiszed in collaboration with Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
Opening Reception
Friday, 16 February 2018 at 7 p.m. at the Hall for Contemporary Art.
Dirk Luckow (Intendant der Deichtorhallen Hamburg), Kate Fowle (Chief curator Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moskau). Robert Longo is present.
Catalog
With essays by Kate Fowle (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moskau), Nancy Spector (Artistic director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) as well as by the journalist, activist and author Chris Hedges, the artist Vadim Zakharov and an interview with Robert Longo. 256 pages, hardcover, 29 x 25 cm, 48 Euros.
VENUE
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Deichtorstr. 1 – 2
20095 Hamburg