{"id":58534,"date":"2021-10-18T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/etel-adnan-lights-new-measure-guggenheim-museum\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:38:50","slug":"etel-adnan-lights-new-measure-guggenheim-museum","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/etel-adnan-lights-new-measure-guggenheim-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Etel Adnan: Light\u2019s New Measure at the Guggenheim Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Installed on the first two levels of Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s spiraling rotunda,\u00a0this exhibition surveys Adnan\u2019s work since the midcentury, encompassing paintings, tapestries, and drawings<\/strong>. It also presents the\u00a0Super 8 film Motion\u00a0<\/strong>(1980\u201389\/2012) and a\u00a0selection of the artist\u2019s leporellos<\/strong>: accordion-fold\u00a0paper books that comprise her linguistic and pictorial registers.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0exhibition is the first part of a trilogy\u00a0presented in parallel with\u00a0Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle<\/em><\/a>. The work of contemporary artists Jennie C. Jones and Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a will be presented next. Etel Adnan recognizes a spirit akin to her own in Kandinsky, describing his abstract painting as \u201cfolklore reexperienced on a cosmic plane. It\u2019s about unity sought everywhere, at the cellular level, in history, in astronomy.\u201d She has studied his work throughout her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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About Etel Adnan:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the course of a lifetime that spans almost a century, Etel Adnan\u2019s creative and intellectual vision has taken many forms. In addition to being a visual artist, she is a renowned poet, a prominent journalist, and the author of one of the defining novels of the modern Arab world. Adnan\u2019s biography is notable for its rich convergence of cultural influences. She was born in Beirut in 1925 to a Greek mother and Syrian father, grew up speaking\u00a0French, Arabic, and Greek and was educated in French schools. She\u00a0lived for extended periods in Lebanon, the United States and France\u00a0where she studied philosophy in La Sorbonne and published later on many books. She began to paint in the late 1950s while working as a professor of philosophy in northern California. It was a period when, in protest of France\u2019s colonial rule in Algeria, she renounced writing in French and declared that she would begin \u201cpainting in Arabic.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Adnan\u2019s writings have been unflinching in their critique of war and social injustice, her visual art is an intensely personal distillation of her faith in the human spirit and the beauty of the natural world. She has stated, \u201cit seems to me I write what I see, paint what I am.\u201d Adnan creates her paintings decisively and intuitively. Adnan\u2019s partner, the artist Simone Fattal, has described her works as playing \u201cthe role the old icons used to play for people who believed. They exude energy and give energy. They shield you like talismans. They help you live your everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n

About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was founded in 1937, and its first New York\u2013based venue for the display of art, the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, opened in 1939. With its exhibitions of Solomon Guggenheim\u2019s rather eccentric art collection, the unusual gallery provided many visitors with their first encounter with great works by Vasily Kandinsky, as well as those of by Rudolf Bauer, Alice Mason, Otto Nebel, and Rolph Scarlett. The need for a permanent building to house the Guggenheim\u2019s art collection became evident in the early 1940s, and in 1943, renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design a museum in New York City. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened on October 21, 1959.<\/p>\n

Etel Adnan: Light\u2019s New Measure<\/em>\u00a0is organized by\u00a0Katherine Brinson<\/strong>,\u00a0Daskalopoulos Curator<\/strong>,\u00a0Contemporary Art,<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Lauren Hinkson<\/strong>,\u00a0Associate Curator, Collections.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Support for\u00a0Etel Adnan: Light\u2019s New Measure<\/em>\u00a0is provided by Galerie Lelong & Co.,\u00a0White Cube, the French-American Cultural Foundation,\u00a0the Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation, Ellen and Alan Meckler,\u00a0the Barjeel Art Foundation,\u00a0GALLERIA CONTINUA,\u00a0William and Agnes Peelle Jr.,\u00a0Nicoletta Fiorucci Russo, London; Mr. and Mrs. John L. Townsend III,\u00a0Karen E. Wagner and David L. Caplan\u00a0and those who wish to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n

Additional support is provided by\u00a0Etant donn\u00e9s Contemporary Art<\/a>, a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States, with support from the French Ministry of Culture,\u00a0Institut\u00a0fran\u00e7ais, Ford Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, CHANEL, and ADAGP.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additional funding is provided by the Solomon R. 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