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News Release
June 10, 2004 PLEASE NOTE: This information is effective as of June 10, 2004 and is subject to change. For current information, contact the museum's communications office at 412.688.8690. Images of the museum, its collection, and special exhibitions are available online. Contact the communications office for access. 2004 Exhibitions Terrain Vague: Photography, Architecture and More Aluminum by Design: Recent Acquisitions Defiance Despair Desire: German Expressionist
Prints from the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection Early German Prints from the Museum's Collection Lebbeus Woods: Experimental Architecture 2004 Carnegie International Kawase Hasui: Landscapes of Modern Japan Neapolitan Presepio 2005 Exhibitions Michael Maltzan: Architecture kid Size: The Material World of Childhood Luke Swank: Photography Special Events Decorative Arts Symposium Holidays at Carnegie Museum of Art The Art Connection Exhibition
Terrain Vague: Photography, Architecture and
the Post-Industrial Landscape Urban landscapes today are places of flux. The city
core, once perceived as undesirable and problematic, is being re-inhabited
in new and sometimes unexpected ways. Because space in the inner
city is limited, new sites and sites formerly occupied by other
uses are being explored. Even as redevelopment occurs, however,
large numbers of urban abandoned industrial buildings and underutilized
spaces create barren landscapes that fragment our perception of
city life. The term "terrain vague" was coined by architect
and critic Ignasi de Solà-Morales Rubió to describe
such spaces. The post-industrial empty urban lot, he writes, is
"an unincorporated margin, an interior island void of activity,
an oversight. . . foreign to the urban system and mentally exterior
in the physical interior of the city, its negative image."
Carnegie Museum of Art started to seriously collect designed objects made from aluminum in 1997 in preparation for the exhibition Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, which opened in October 2000. More Aluminum by Design showcases some of the significant and interesting aluminum works acquired by the museum both by gift and purchase since the earlier exhibition. Highlights include the Campana Screen, 1993, made from reused television antennas and design by the Brazilian brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana who are known for their low-tech approach to design and materials; a pair of tables, 1957, designed by Isamu Noguchi for Alcoa's Forecast program, which was primarily an advertising campaign to promote unusual uses of aluminum; and a credenza designed by GF Studios that was part of a small line of furniture specially commissioned in 1958 for Reynolds Metals headquarters in Richmond. Defiance Despair Desire: German Expressionist
Prints from the Marcia and Granvil Specks Collection Containing more than 200 prints by 33 artists spanning the 1890s to the 1930s, this striking exhibition proclaims the revolutionary intent of the German Expressionists, who changed the course of Modernism with their radical styles, techniques, and subjects. The Expressionists launched their careers against a background of social unrest and political turmoil, producing incisive self-portraits, chaotic urban scenes, joyous landscapes, and harsh images of war. The exhibition was organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum. Early German Prints from the Museum's Collection The art of printmaking developed in northern Europe
in the middle of the 15th century. More than 60 works from the museum's
collection of 15th- and early 16th-century German prints are presented
in this exhibition. Highlights include a rare page from a block-book,
"Apocalypse," where picture and letters are carved from
the same block; the original publication predates Gutenberg's invention
of moveable type. Several works by Martin Schongauer are included
in the exhibition. Primarily a painter, Schongauer ventured into
printmaking in the 1470s. He was the most influential German engraver
of his time. Albrecht Dürer's 20-woodcut masterpiece, "The
Life of the Virgin," and a number of complicated, tiny scale
prints by the "Little Masters," a group of artists in
Dürer's circle, are on view for the first time in more than
a decade. Widely considered one of the most innovative experimental
architects working today, Lebbeus Woods (American, b. 1940) combines
an extraordinary mastery of drawing with a penetrating analysis
of architectural and urban form, and social and political conditions,
that is nourished by his wide knowledge of fields ranging from philosophy
to cybernetics. Like many architects engaged in speculation, he
has produced no permanent bricks-and-mortar buildings. For Woods,
however, the act of articulating ideas graphically or through the
medium of the model is as much a part of building as is the act
of physical construction. 2004 Carnegie International The Carnegie International is the most important
and prestigious international survey of contemporary art in North
America. The 2004-5 Carnegie International includes paintings,
sculpture, photography, works on paper, and film and video works
by 38 international artists. Kawase Hasui: Landscapes of Modern Japan Kawase Hasui (Japanese 1883 – 1957) was one of
the most important print designers of the shin hanga ("new
print") movement of early 20th century Japan. Shin hanga
were intended to revive the Japanese woodblock print (ukiyo-e)
tradition, which by the end of the 19th century had begun to fade.
Watanabe Shozaburo (1885 – 1962), publisher and the major force
behind the movement, sought to issue artists' original designs utilizing
traditionally trained carvers and printers, a method for print publication
that had been successful in Japan for centuries. Neapolitan Presepio A visit to Carnegie Museum of Art's Neapolitan Presepio, one of the finest examples of its kind, has been a Pittsburgh holiday tradition since 1957. Handmade between 1700 and 1830, the Presepio teems with lifelike figures and colorful details that recreate the Nativity within a vibrant and detailed panorama of 18th-century Italian village life. More than 100 superbly modeled human and angelic figures, along with animals, accessories, and architectural elements, cover a 250-square-foot area and create an unforgettable depiction as seen through the eyes of the Neapolitan artisans who lovingly created this masterpiece. 2005 Exhibitions Michael Maltzan: Architecture Michael Maltzan: Architecture is the first
complete monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of Michael
Maltzan and his Los Angeles-based practice Michael Maltzan Architecture. kid size: The Material World of Childhood kid Size presents several everyday objects from the environments that accompany childhood. Through them the exhibition explores the similar and changing relationships between adults and children across generations and cultures. Featured in the exhibition are 130 pieces of furniture and other artifacts designed over three centuries that illuminate the links between many periods and societies including those of Europe, North and South America, Africa, India, Indonesia, New Guinea, and China. Designed for meeting the needs of children in their world of sleep, play, learning, movement, feeding, and grooming, these objects have been selected because of adult attitudes about experience and identity in a child's formative years. Luke Swank: Photography This major retrospective exhibition of approximately
140 photographs will reassess the career of the Pennsylvania photographer, Luke Swank (1890 – 1944). Swank
was one of the most important modernist photographers of his generation, and a contemporary
of Man Ray, Walker
Evans, and Berenice Abbot. During his life, his work was exhibited
in New York at the Julian
Levy Gallery, and at the Museum of Modern Art. It largely disappeared
after his premature death
and before his place in history was secured. 2004/2005 Special Events Decorative Arts Symposium Two distinguished speakers at this annual symposium approach two aspects of the influence of Asian works of art on the West, including the importance of lacquer and the craze for objects from Japan. Daniëlle Grosheide, associate curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will speak on lacquer, brought into the West beginning in the 17th century, and the impact on European interiors and decorative arts. Writer and speaker Cheryl Robertson, formerly curator of Decorative Arts at Milwaukee Art Museum and assistant professor of Early American Culture in the Winterthur Program, will present an overview of the Japanese mania that gripped the United States after the opening of the country to foreigners in the 1850s and its continued influence on designers associated with Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Movement at the turn of the century.
Carnegie Museum of Art decks the Hall of Architecture every year with delightful seasonal displays, including the Neapolitan Presepio, a rare Neapolitan Nativity scene with more than 100 lifelike, painstakingly crafted figures, and four towering trees, resplendent with colorful handmade ornaments created by the Museum of Art Women's Committee. The Art Connection Exhibition For 76 years, studio art classes for kids at Carnegie Museum of Art have nurtured budding artists. Among the museum's distinguished student alumni are Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, Raymond Saunders, and Duane Michals. Students in the current Art Connection program, develop their artistic skills through gallery sketching, sharing ideas about original artwork in the museum's galleries, behind-the-scenes sessions with museum staff, and artmaking using a variety of materials. This exhibition showcases the work produced by 5th through 9th grade students inspired by the creative environment of the museum and its collections.
Founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museum of Art is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the sixteenth century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412.622.3131 or visit the museum's web site at www.cmoa.org. The exhibitions and dates listed above are subject to change. Photos are available on Carnegie Museum of Art's media photo website. Contact the communications office at 412.688.8690 for access code. General Information Web Site Hours Admission Carnegie Café Fossil Fuels Café Guided Group Tours Museum Stores Location and Parking Contact: |
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