Null MARCELLO MORANDINI
(1940)
Project for a visual-auditory-olfactory-gustatory…

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MARCELLO MORANDINI (1940) Project for a visual-auditory-olfactory-gustatory-tactile exhibition. 1968 Artist's book published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, unnumbered ex. from a total print run of 2000 copies 20 x 20 cm Contemporary Art Editions Defects, missing parts

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MARCELLO MORANDINI (1940) Project for a visual-auditory-olfactory-gustatory-tactile exhibition. 1968 Artist's book published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, unnumbered ex. from a total print run of 2000 copies 20 x 20 cm Contemporary Art Editions Defects, missing parts

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Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

LAURIE SIMMONS (Long Island, New York, 1949). "Plaid living room". The instant decorator Series, 2004. Flex print. Edition 3/5. Work reproduced on the artist's website. Presents certificate of authenticity, exhibition labels and signature on the back. Provenance: Distrito Cuatro Gallery (Madrid). Measurements: 76,2 x 96,5 cm; 84,1 x 104,1 cm (frame). "Plaid living Room" (2004) belongs to the Instant Decorator series, which was initiated by Simmons in 2001, with the intention of materializing his research around a book on interior decoration published in 1976. This publication had different templates of domestic interiors, which allowed the reader to decorate rooms with fabric swatches and different paintings. By rescuing this "Do it by yourself" idea, the author constructed an image that echoes the aesthetics of collage, where different independent elements coexist, forming a set of great visual expressiveness. Through a domestic interior in which an elegantly dressed woman lies on the carpet, the author poses to the viewer an uncertainty about who this character is, and what she represents. The protagonist is surrounded by luxuries, and looks at the viewer suggestively, but she is alone, and her pose and dress invite her to be represented as just another piece of furniture, as an object of consumption. This representation of the woman, reflecting on her role in the social environment, was one of the first themes explored by Laurie Simmons in her works. In which she related the space of the home with the feminine, like other artists such as Martha Rosler, or Barbara Kruger, who used similar themes and techniques to the one presented here. Laurie Simmons grew up in Long Island, in an era of economic expansion that marked the beginning of material prosperity, but also gave rise to a state of conformity, characteristics that are very recurrent in the themes explored by the artist. Her career stands out for its versatility, as she works as an artist, photographer and filmmaker. After graduating from Tyler School of Art in the late 1960s and settling in New York City, Simmons began to develop her artistic side. In 1972, Simmons discovered a vintage dollhouse in the attic of a toy store in Liberty, New York, so she began making compositions with dolls, which she subsequently photographed and intervened. Most of his works make a statement about traditional gender roles, questioning them and criticizing the objectification of the person, especially women. Simmons is part of the important artistic group, The Pictures Generation, a name given to a group of artists who rose to fame in the 1970s, and which includes world-renowned artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Louise Lawler. Much of Simmons' work, like that of the aforementioned artists, is rooted in the role of women and their integration with their environment and society. In a March 2014 interview, Simmons stated, "When I picked up a camera with a group of other women, I'm not going to say it was a radical act, but we were certainly doing it in a kind of defiance or reaction to, a male-dominated world of painting." Today her work is in important collections both private and public, examples include the Queen Sofia Art Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Work reproduced on the artist's website. Presents certificate of authenticity, exhibition labels and signature on the back. Provenance: Distrito Cuatro Gallery (Madrid). Gallery Distrito Cuatro (Madrid).

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

MARIA ACHA-KUTSCHER ( Lima, Peru, 1968). Untitled. 2019. Series "Womankind". Pigmented inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper, 315 gr. With label from Taller Digigráfico de Madrid. Sizes: 41,5 x 30 cm; 62 x 50 cm (frame). As the artist herself explained in an interview in "Elemmental" about this series: "Womankind is an intertextual work, full of quotations from works of art, photography, film, literature and the memory of political struggle. In all the photographic collages of this project, women occupy a central place, not as objects of contemplation, but as protagonists of their own history. It is therefore crucial that the images are plausible, in order to construct a large archive of fictional documents". By combining archival images and collage, Acha-Kutscher claims an autonomous place for women, a place that was stolen from them. María Acha-Kutscher is a Peruvian feminist visual artist based in Spain. She is co-director with Tomás Ruiz-Rivas of the experimental project Antimuseo. She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. After finishing her studies in 1991 she moved to Mexico City, where she worked as an art director in advertising agencies. This experience as a designer has been crucial for the realisation of her artistic-militant work. In 2001 she moved to Madrid and became involved in the alternative contemporary art scene through her partner Tomás Ruiz-Rivas. Her work vindicates and makes feminism visible. Since 2010, Acha-Kutscher has focused on three long-term projects: Womankind, Indignadas and Herstorymuseum. Womankind consists of several series of digital photographic collages, created from archival images, from the internet, magazines, books and photographs taken by the artist. Among her most recognised series is Indignadas, which belongs to the project for the recovery of women's historical memory, Mujeres Trabajando para Mujeres" (Women Working for Women). Her latest project is Herstorymuseum, an imaginary museum that, through its collection and a curatorial programme, develops a rhizomatic and non-hierarchical narrative of women creators of the 20th century. Its collections are made up of images based on a visual language close to the pictogram, in which only two spots of colour are used. The exhibitions are held in public spaces, art centres, galleries and also on its website. The exhibitions establish relationships between different women artists and works, thus developing a different narrative from the official art history.16 Herstorymuseum is a member of the International Association of Women's Museums (IAWM). Acha-Kutscher has shown her work at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (CGAC), La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, The Fed Galleries @ KCAD (USA), M.A.C.L.A. (USA), Haifa Museum of Art (USA), Haifa Museum of Art (USA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (USA).), Haifa Museum of Art (Israel), International Museum of Woman-IMOW, Galería - Centro Cultural de la Universidad de Lima (Peru), Centro Cultural Inca Garcilaso (Peru), Centro de la Imagen (Mexico), Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos (Mexico) Fototeca Nuevo León (Mexico), among others. In Spain at CentroCentro, Museo de la Universidad de Alicante-MUA, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Caja de Burgos, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander and Cantabria-MAS, among others. He has also participated in contemporary art fairs such as Zona Marco (Mexico City). And in Madrid in the fairs ARCO, Estampa, Madrid Photo, ArteSantander, Munich Contemplo, in his country of origin Peru in the fairs Art Lima and Lima Photo.

Estim. 3 000 - 3 400 EUR

CANDIDA HÖFER (Germany, 1944). "Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf," 2012. Photograph, c-print, copy 97/100. Signed and numbered on the back. Measurements: 30 x 45.5 cm; 48 x 63 cm (frame). "Deutsch Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf" is part of a project called "In Portugal", which the artist realized between 2005 and 2006. The series consists of a selection of photographs taken in public places throughout the country. Characteristic of Candida Höfer, the artist has photographed empty interiors of libraries, museums, palaces and theaters, focusing on cultural spaces free of human presence. The self-imposed thematic constraints evident in her project are both cultural and formal in nature. The baroque, modern and contemporary interiors that Höfer captures through her lens offer a "formal portrait of the social itself," as it has been defined in Europe since the Enlightenment. Candida Höfer began her career in 1968 working as a portrait photographer for various newspapers and, from 1970, as an assistant to Werner Bokelberg. Later, between 1973 and 1982, she attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, first studying film with Ole John, and later photography with Bernd Becher. Together with Thomas Ruff, Höfe was Becher's first student to use color photography, showing her work in slide form. She began making her famous interiors of public buildings in 1979, still during her student period. Eventually fame would come to him thanks to his series of photographs focusing on the lives of immigrant workers in Germany. Höfer's work is part of the tradition of German photographers directly inherited from the conceptual aesthetics and the teachings of Bernd and Hilla Becher from the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, who readapted the original project of the New Objectivity to adopt a unique way of facing the world. Following the working method initiated by their teachers, their photographs show an almost ethnographic interest in the multiplicity of forms of representation of contemporary culture, relating in a very particular way to the scenarios where society moves and knowledge develops. Höfer's are interiors of buildings, preferably for public use such as museums, churches, theaters or opera houses, archives and libraries, which are photographed when they have ceased all activity and are empty. Specializing in large formats, her photographs are taken from a classic frontal angle, or they seek a sharp diagonal that organizes the composition. The artist tends to photograph her scenes from a high viewpoint, so that the wall in the background is centered in relation to the final image. She held her first solo exhibition in 1975 at the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Düsseldorf. Since then, Höfer's work has been exhibited in leading museums around the world, such as the Kunsthalle in Basel, Hamburg and Bern, the Louvre in Paris, the Portikus in Frankfurt am Main, the MoMA in New York, the Power Plant in Toronto, the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne or, in our country, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo. Likewise, in 2002 he participated in Documenta 11, and in 2003 he represented Germany at the Venice Biennale, together with Martin Kippenberger. On the other hand, between 1997 and 2000 she combined her artistic practice with teaching, which she did at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. She is currently represented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Hamburger Banhof in Berlin, the Kunsthalle in Nuremberg, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Trento, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago, the Fundación Telefónica in Madrid and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among other public and private collections.

Estim. 8 000 - 8 500 EUR

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (Chanteloup-en-Brie, France, 1908- Céreste, France, 2004). "Matisse", Vence, France, 1944. Gelatin silver, later printing. Signed in ink in the margin and with embossed photographer's copyright stamp (in the margin). Provenance: Reuben private collection, Chicago. Measurements: 25.3 x 37 cm (image); 31 x 40.8 cm (paper). Henri Cartier-Bresson immortalized French painter Henri Matisse in villa "Le Rêve," his home in the Alpes-Maritimes, when publisher Pierre Braun asked him to photograph writers and artists for a book project that never materialized. At the time the Fauvist painter was 70 years old and, having undergone surgery years earlier, his condition forced him to be prostrate in a chair or bed, as seen in the tendered snapshot. In Le Rêve Matisse drew and painted the white doves that flitted around his room, as well as his regular models, Micaela Avogadro and Lydia Delectorskaya. The Fauvist also spent time in his Nice apartment, where Cartier-Bresson also photographed him. Bresson himself said of these visits to the villa, "When I went to see Matisse, I sat in a corner, I didn't move, we didn't talk. It was as if we didn't exist." Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of photography and one of the first users of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography and considered photography as capturing a decisive moment. His first major reportage trip took him to the Ivory Coast in 1931.Photographs from his many travels quickly found a forum in magazines and exhibitions. He also gained experience in New York with Paul Strand. In the late summer of 1937, before the battle of Belchite, he traveled to Spain with Herbert Kline, former editor of New Theater magazine, and cameraman Jacques Lemare to shoot a documentary on the American Medical Bureau during the Spanish Civil War. They filmed at Villa Paz, the International Brigades hospital in Saelices, not far from Madrid, and on the coast of Valencia to document the recovery of wounded volunteers in the villas of Benicàssim. They also visited the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Quinto, near Zaragoza, and shot the film With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain. From 1937 to 1939, Cartier-Bresson was assistant director on three films by Jean Renoir, including The Rules of the Game. In 1940, he spent nearly three years as a prisoner of war in Germany. After it was erroneously assumed that he had died in the war, the Museum of Modern Art in New York dedicated a major "posthumous" retrospective to Cartier-Bresson in 1947. That same year, together with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger, he founded the Magnum Photos agency in New York with the aim of preserving the rights to the photographers' work. Cartier-Bresson was the first photographer allowed to exhibit at the Louvre in Paris in 1955. His photographs were collected and published in Images à la sauvette (1952, Images in passing), D'une Chine à l'autre (1968, China yesterday and today) and Moscou (1955, Moscow), among others. Cartier-Bresson stopped taking professional photographs in 1972 and devoted himself intensely to the art of drawing. In 1974 he was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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