![]() ![]() ![]() After studying the cello, she studied photography in the United States and worked in theExhibitions Department of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. These “pictures”, haunted by the contradiction between light and darkness, open onto the infinite, a quest for the absolute or a search for a limitless inner mystery.īéatrice Helg – Photo & contemporary, Stand C6Ĭreate an account or log in to read more and see all pictures. Beatrice, the woman to whom the great Italian poet Dante dedicated most of his poetry and almost all of his life, from his first sight of her at the age of nine (from that time forward, Love quite governed my soul) through his glorification of her in La divina commedia, completed 40 years later, to his death in 1321. As poetic as they are spiritual, her photographs show strangely beautiful universes of shadow and of light. It is the medium by which everything can be revealed. More than anything else, here the light is the material without which the work wouldn’t exist. Influenced by the Russian avant-garde and constructivism, passionate about architecture, theatre and opera, she stages her photographs, creates monumental spaces where sculpture, painting, the environment and, above all, light seem to intermingle. Since her earliest works, the artist has known how to combine the material and theatricality, or reality and vision. And it’s this image that comes to mind when we contemplate the spaces constructed by Béatrice Helg, which vibrate with an unworldly silence. The icon, in the orthodox tradition, is a window open to the invisible. Batrice Helg is known for fusion of still life photography with geometric abstraction as well as using industrial materials. Helg took part in the organization of La Fotografia in Venice 79 photography exhibition. Indeed, far from hyper-realistic or narrative works, or reconstructions of scenes from daily life, her works show us abstract forms, luminous worlds. She also studied photography at International Center of Photography in New York. Influenced by Constructivism and Rationalism, Juan Asensio maintains, as we can see in this exhibition, the premise that the simplicity of the work does not imply the simplicity of the experience and emphasises the fact that a simple work can transmit “much more emotion than other things".The work of the Swiss photographer Béatrice Helg occupies a special place in the tradition of staged photography that first saw the light of day in the 1980s. The exhibition proposes a historic route to provide the visitor with greater insight into the different artistic languages found in the 20th century by means of works by artists represented in the BBVA Collection as the central strand. Risonanze Sede: Palazzo Fortuny, San Marco 3780 San Beneto, Venezia Apertura al pubblico: 1 settembre 19 novembre 2012 Orario: Tutti i giorni dalle 10.00 alle 18.00 (biglietteria 10.00 17. XX Century Spanish Art in the Collection of the BBVA Later Murray proceeded to create mural reliefs based on a jigsaw puzzle of everyday household objects as symbols of the psychological fragility in which we are immersed, associating them with certain colours and using a language based on comic books but manifested in a more elemental manner, thus shedding their narrative perception. In the eighties she went one step further by using figurative motifs, which she disintegrated in an archipelago of “square-islands" that entered into conflict with the walls where they were hung, at the same time as she consolidated these motifs as unifying elements. Murray melded her personal style with the knowledge and techniques picked up from her research into dynamic tensions related with Malevich’s geometrical configurations, the rhythmic use of colour in Mondrian’s geometrical figures, the weight and texture of Ce'zanne’s surfaces, the flight of planes of colour as a tool to produce vibration and facilitate the interpretation of certain forms and surfaces as figures and fields, directly taken from Matisse, and the paramount association of forms with certain colours proclaimed by Kandinsky. The metal, Plexiglass, cloth and drawings of other industrial objects that she includes in her work are simple materials she uses to create atmospheres, establishing an illusion of monumental spaces and altered spaces.Īn exhibition organised by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York that will be held at the IVAM thanks to the Collaboration Agreement entered into by both institutions, whose objective is to show the work of this American artist, who has made a great impact with her vibrant colours and her abstract representation of everyday objects.ĭuring the nineteen seventies, Murray embarked upon a historiographic tour of concepts and artistic theories related with the treatment of forms, colour and volume within the field of abstraction. Centro Julio Gonzalez - Galeri'a 6 (Sala de la Muralla)īe'atrice Helg’s works are something more than traditional photographs. ![]()
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