Tuesday, January 6, the day of 'epiphany, the Museum of Nuoro MAN closes the festival dedicated to Man Ray.
"Unconcerned but not indifferent", this is the title of the exhibition that brings together about three hundred drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures and objects that belonged to the great American artist and photographer. Emmanuel Radnitsky, this is the real name of Man Ray, was born in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) August 27, 1890, to Russian Jewish parents to start with, at the age of seven years, New York. The American metropolis
take residence in Brooklyn. In high school, Emmanuel attends painting classes and then, barely nineteen, he studied at the School of Fine Arts in New York, following courses at the same time drawing and watercolor.
A Ridgefield, New Jersey, where he lived for four years, working as a commercial artist. Try then, with the poet Alfred Kreymborg, to found an artistic community. Meet Alfred Stieglitz and comes into contact with the American avant-garde.
The discovery of European art movements will take place in 1913, after seeing the works of Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia Armory Show.
then realizes his first cubist painting: a portrait of Alfred Stieglitz. She married the poet Adon Lacroix in which published the book A Book of Diverse Writings. The ongoing war in Europe blocked his plan to travel to Paris.
then realizes his first cubist painting: a portrait of Alfred Stieglitz. She married the poet Adon Lacroix in which published the book A Book of Diverse Writings. The ongoing war in Europe blocked his plan to travel to Paris.
Twenty-five years, Man Ray bought a camera to reproduce his paintings and founded the first American magazine Dadaist The Ridgefield Gazook: four pages with his drawings and lyrics by his wife, Adon. And 'the year of his encounter with Duchamp and his first exposure to Daniel Gallery in New York. In 1919 he separated from wife, the only public number of TNT, a magazine of anarchist tendency, and began a collaboration with Marcel Duchamp and photographic film.
The two, along with Katherine Dreier, Henry Hudson and Andrew McLaren founded the Société Anonyme, a museum of avant-garde art.
In 1921, during the fifteenth annual exhibition of photography, won an award for a portrait of Berenice Abbott, then a photographer and sculptor, and later his assistant for three years.
The association with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray is well established it finally reaches the Dadaists in Paris where he met and became acquainted with Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie and Kiki de Montparnasse.Sono years full of artistic activities: publication of books, participation in dozens of solo and group exhibitions, the realization of rayografie of nudity, portraits and fashion photography. In 1923
turns Retour à la raison, the first of several films (Anemic Cinema, Emak Bakia, L'Etoile de mer, Les Mysteries du Chateau de dé).
In 1929, Lee Miller became his assistant (and will until 1932).
The Nazi invasion of 1940 forced Man Ray to leave the French capital to New York to settle later in Hollywood, where he met Juliet Browner, his future wife, where he remained for 11 years before returning to the French capital, in the Venice Biennale in 1961 received the medal Gold for photography in 1971 while the two retrospective will be devoted, in Rotterdam and London (at the Galleria Schwarz), comprising 225 works made between 1912 and 1971.Man Ray died in Paris in 1976 at the age of 86 years. was buried in the cemetery of Montparnasse .
His epitaph reads: "Unconcerned but not indifferent", the English translation of "I do not care, but not indifferent."
Arch.Tito Antonio Maglio
Ark's-Cultural Association ®
Ark's-Cultural Association ®
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