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Category Archives: art
FRANCIS BACON – IN THE MIRROR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
I am very proud that my book Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography. Collecting, Preparatory Practice and Painting will be published by De Gruyter in May 2022. It is based on my PhD research and thus marks the … Continue reading
LEE MILLER LECTURE AT BUCHENWALD
As part of the international MWW-Summer School 2021 ‘Collection Spaces – Räume des Sammelns’, I will be presenting the lecture ‘‘Das Goethehaus ist ziemlich mitgenommen‘ – Lee Millers Blick auf Buchenwald und Weimar’ at the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation … Continue reading
Posted in archive, art, art history, Event, photographer, photography, research, talk
Tagged Buchenwald, Concentration Camp, lee miller, MWW
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NEO RAUCH WITH A HINT OF BACON
My review of Neo Rauch’s exhibition Handlauf, which I saw at Galerie EIGEN+ART in Leipzig last year, has just been published by the open access art journal kunsttexte.de (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). My text discusses the painter’s attempts to avoid plain … Continue reading
Posted in art, art criticism, art history, expertise, painting, publication, research, writing
Tagged EIGEN+ART, Francis Bacon, KUNSTTEXTE, Neo Rauch
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“TAKE IT VERY MUCH FURTHER…” ON JSTOR
My essay “‘Take it very much further away from the photograph’ – How Francis Bacon (1909–1992) appropriated the photographs of John Deakin (1912–1972)”, which I published in the British Art Journal in winter 2018/2019, is now available on Jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48584557
Posted in art, art history, digital, expertise, painting, photographer, photography, publication, research, writing
Tagged Appropriation, Francis Bacon, John Deakin
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LEE MILLER REVIEW
My first publication ever in German, “Das Unglaubliche Glauben”, is a review of the Lee Miller exhibition Lee Miller: To believe it! I saw in Erfurt last year. You can read it in Foto Marburg’s current Rundbrief Fotografie.
ON THE TRAIL OF FRANCIS BACON
Many years of blood, sweat and tears came to an end when I submitted my PhD thesis and passed my viva at the University of Cologne this summer. On the Trail of Francis Bacon – Painting from Photography explores the … Continue reading
Posted in art, art history, publication, research, scholarship, studio
Tagged Appropriation, Francis Bacon, painting, PhD thesis, photography, University of Cologne
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BRITISH ART JOURNAL
In 2016 I did a research project with The John Deakin Archive on the artistic exchange between John Deakin and Francis Bacon. ‘Take it very much further away from the photograph’, an essay on how Bacon appropriated Deakin’s photographs, has … Continue reading
Posted in archive, art, art history, essays, expertise, publication, research, scholarship
Tagged Appropriation, Francis Bacon, John Deakin, The British Art Journal
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FiSH NEIGHBOURHOOD CARE
‘FiSH Neighbourhood Care aims to inspire a caring community where older people live fulfilling, independent lives knowing that help willingly given by neighbours is at hand.’ I am delighted to contribute to their programme with a free lecture on Francis … Continue reading
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Tagged Francis Bacon, Lecture, photography, Portraits
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CONNOISSEURSHIP CONFERENCE
‘In other words, less emphasis is put on the knowledge of art and familiarity with it’s research material.’ I am looking forward to speaking at the conference ‘Connoisseurship in Contemporary Art Research’ taking place in Helsinki in November and organised by … Continue reading
Posted in art, art history, conference, Event, expertise, Museum, paper, research, scholarship, symposium, talk, Uncategorized, university
Tagged Academy of Fine Arts, Connoisseurship, Contemporary Art, Finland, Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, University of Helsinki, University of the Arts Helsinki, University of Turku
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INFLUENCE AND INSPIRATION
We just launched new material on the ‘Influence & Inspiration’ behind Francis Bacon’s art on francis-bacon.com. I had the great pleasure of planning and authoring the section with entries on Rembrandt van Rijn, Pablo Picasso, Sergei Eisenstein, Lucian Freud, John … Continue reading