Media information: Exhibition PHOTOREALISM Painting with a Camera December 8, 2012–March 10, 2013 Media conference: Thursday, December 6, 2012, 3:00 p.m. When the American Photorealists walked onto the stage in the mid-1960s with their illustrious paintings of our civilization, their painterly methods were believed to be sacrilegious: they used cameras for their pictorial composition, they employed photomechanical means in order to transfer their motifs to the canvas, and they also allowed the aesthetic arrangement of their compositions to be inspired by photography. With this open acknowledgment of modern imaging technology, the movement initiated a paradigm shift in art history that continues to influence contemporary trends in realistic painting. The large-scale traveling exhibition being launched in Tübingen is the first to pay comprehensive tribute to the founders of American Photorealism of the 1960s and 1970s with a selection of works by contemporary artists who have refined the photorealistic approach with today’s phototechnical and digital possibilities. The first generation, which includes Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Tom Blackwell, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Ron Kleemann, Richard McLean, Jack Mendenhall, and Ben Schonzeit, is represented with an exquisite selection of in part very famous major works, such as Estes’s Telephone Booths or Goings’s Airstream. The succeeding generation of Photorealists has an international lineup: Anthony Brunelli, Randy Dudley, Robert Gniewek, Clive Head, Gus Heinze, Don Jacot, Bertrand Meniel, Rod Penner, Bernardo Torrens, Roberto Bernardi, Peter Maier, Yigal Ozeri, Robert Neffson, and Raphaella Spence. Following the presentation at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, which is being mounted in cooperation with the Institut für Kulturaustausch in Tübingen, the exhibition will travel to the Museo ThyssenBornemisza in Madrid.
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Richard Estes Telephone Booths, 1967 Acrylic on hard fibre, 122 x 1175 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Richard Estes Nedick's, 1970 Oil on canvas, 122 x 168 cm Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © for the photo: Jacqueline Mabey
John Salt Bride, 1969 Oil on canvas 136 x 175 cm F. Javier Elorza
Ralph Goings Airstream, 1970 Oil on canvas, 152 x 214 cm museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Leihgabe der Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
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Don Eddy Untitled (4 VWs), 1971 Acrylic on canvas, 167 x 241 cm F. Javier Elorza © for the photo: 2012 Gonzalo de la Serna
John Kacere Serina ‘72, 1972 Oil on canvas, 127 x 197 cm Bruce R. Lewin Collection, New York © for the work: Louis K. Meisel
David Parrish Honda, 1972 Oil on canvas, 127 x 127 cm F. Javier Elorza © for the photo: 2012 Gonzalo de la Serna
Tom Blackwell Triumph Trumpet, 1977 Oil on canvas, 180 x 180 cm Private collection, New York
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Robert Bechtle Alameda Chrysler, 1981 Oil on canvas, 122 x 175 cm Courtesy Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
Charles Bell Paragon, 1988 Oil on canvas, 127 x 244 cm Courtesy Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
Gus Heinze Mobile Reentry Vehicle, 1990 Oil on a wooden panel grounded with gesso, 104 x 122 cm Courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York © for the photo: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
Peter Maier Gator Chomp, 2007 DuPont Cromax-AT on an aluminum panel, 137 x 188 cm Private collection
Clive Head Trafalgar, 2007 Oil on canvas, 158 x 188 cm Beat Odinga - Courtesy Persterer Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
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Robert Neffson 57th Street and 5th Avenue, 2010 Oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm Daniel Schweizer - Courtesy Persterer Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Raphaella Spence Vegas, 2011 Oil on canvas, 91 x 120 cm Private collection, USA
Roberto Bernardi Meeting, 2012 Oil on canvas, 122 x 142 cm Courtesy Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York
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