| | | | | | | | © Alex Prager, Crowd #9 (Sunset Five), 2013, from the series Face in the Crowd
Courtesy Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong | | | | | | | | | | 3 NOVEMBER 2018 – 27 JANUARY 2019 | | | | OPENING : FRIDAY, 2 NOVEMBER, 6.30 PM | | | | | | MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS Marie-Anne-Calame 6, 2400 Le Locle
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | © Alex Prager, Desiree, 2008, from the series Big Valley
Courtesy Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong | | | | | | | 3 NOVEMBER 2018 – 27 JANUARY 2019 | | | | MBAL is hosting the first retrospective of American photographer and filmmaker Alex Prager (b. 1979), one of the most iconic artists of our time. Prager’s unique body of work, built up over the past ten years, consists of photographs and films whose common denominator is a meticulously crafted mise-en-scène. An undeniable sense of Hollywood and pop culture permeates the work of this self-taught, Los Angeles-based artist. | | | | | | | | | © Alex Prager, Crowd #7 (Bob Hope Airport), 2013, from the series Face in the Crowd
Courtesy Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong | | | | | | | This exhibition brings together her most important series of photographs, which together evoke a universe filled with drama, emotion and humor. Los Angeles serves as both inspiration and backdrop for her compositions – carefully staged scenes bathed in an atmosphere both intriguing and seductive. Prager favors complex sets, unafraid to deploy hundreds of extras who, lost in thought, are given equal standing in her quasi tableaux vivants. She recreates everyday scenes with her trademark attention to detail, yet her artifice is invariably betrayed by a solitary female figure in the crowd, isolated by an angst all her own. The exhibition also includes five films – Prager describes her immersive film installations as ‘full-sensory versions’ of her photographs. At once timeless and era-specific, Prager’s instantly recognizable aesthetic veers between fantasy and hyperrealism. Hers is a world governed by a palpabletension between fact and fiction, superficiality and depth. | | | | | | | | | © Alex Prager, Lois, 2009, from the series Week-end and the Long Weekend
Courtesy Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong | | | | | | | This exhibition is organized by MBAL, in collaboration with Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York/Hong Kong. A book – published in English by Thames & Hudson and in French by Éditions Textuel – traces the brilliant trajectory of an artist whose work has been shown in some of the most prestigious museums in the world. | | | | | | |
| | Silver Lake Drive
Author : Alex Prager
Essays written by Michael Govan, Clare Grafik, Michael Mansfield
Interview with Nathalie Herschdorfer
Published by Thames & Hudson for the English edition
Published by Éditions Textuel for the French edition
Pages : 224
Illustrations : 120
Publication date : 2018 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Erik Madigan Heck, Aberglasney Gardens, Wales, 2018
Courtesy Christophe Guye Galerie | | | | | | | 3 NOVEMBER 2018 – 27 JANUARY 2019 | | | | In his Old Future series, American photographer Erik Madigan Heck (b. 1983) explores the intersection of photography and painting as he borrows from and bends the genres of fashion photography, landscape painting and portraiture. | | | | | | | | | © Erik Madigan Heck, Family in Turquoise, 2017
Courtesy Christophe Guye Galerie | | | | | | | Heck quickly gained prominence as a fashion photographer – his work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine – while at the same time making a name for himself in the art world thanks to a sui generis photographic language. | | | | | | | | | © Erik Madigan Heck, Audrey Marnay (Harper's Bazaar UK), 2015
Courtesy Christophe Guye Galerie | | | | | | | Influenced by Romantic painters, Impressionists and Les Nabis, he is able to convey the essence of painting through his lenswork and deft interplay of vivid colors and a pointillist style, producing oneiric images that transcend time. The fashion industry serves as a creative laboratory for Heck, whose creations nevertheless build on the work of the 20th century painters he admires. | | | | | | | | | © Erik Madigan Heck, Study in Purple (Etro), 2012
Courtesy Christophe Guye Galerie | | | | | | | This exhibition, organized by MBAL in collaboration with Christophe Guye Gallery in Zurich. It is accompanied by a book published by Thames & Hudson. | | | | | | |
| | Old Future
Author : Erik Madigan Heck
Contributors : Susan Bright, Justine Picardie
Published by Thames & Hudson
Pages : 164
Illustrations : 100
Publication date : 2017 | | | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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