Category Archives: art

FiSH NEIGHBOURHOOD CARE

Posted on December 10, 2018 by katharina guenther

‘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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CONNOISSEURSHIP CONFERENCE

Posted on October 6, 2018 by katharina guenther

‘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 →

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INFLUENCE AND INSPIRATION

Posted on July 27, 2018 by katharina guenther

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 →

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EDWARD BURTYNSKY

Posted on June 22, 2018 by katharina guenther

As of late the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is embracing augmented reality in his work – with mixed results. I reviewed his Master of Photography display at Photo London 2018 for SuperMassiveBlackHole. You can read the text here

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ALL TOO HUMAN

Posted on March 21, 2018 by katharina guenther

Tate invited me to take part in a talk and panel discussion on the concept of ‘Gaze’ in relationship to their current exhibition All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, 28 February – 27 August 2018. … Continue reading →

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KILL YOUR DARLINGS

Posted on January 7, 2018 by katharina guenther

The Clemens Sels Museum Neuss, Germany, is currently staging a fantastic show on portrait painting and photography, Wunsch & Wirklichkeit Der Einfluss der Fotografie auf das Porträt (Desire & Reality: The Influence of Photography on Portraiture’). I will be giving … Continue reading →

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FRANCIS-BACON.COM

Posted on November 29, 2017 by katharina guenther

We just relaunched francis-bacon.com, the official website of The Estate of Francis Bacon. You can now see all 584 known Bacon paintings online, together with detailed information on the artist’s life and work.

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INCOMING

Posted on May 27, 2017 by katharina guenther

The current refugee crisis is one of the most urgent issues of our time. The photographer Richard Mosse followed two major refugee routes with a military grade camera. I reviewed his show Incoming, on display at the BarGot It!bican’s Curve … Continue reading →

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MARIA LASSNIG

Posted on April 22, 2017 by katharina guenther

Maria Lassnig developed a novel way of figurative painting. I reviewed her show at Hauser & Wirth, London, 1 March – 29 April 2017, for this is tomorrow. You can read it here: Lassnig review

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GUDRUN PUBLISHING

Posted on January 27, 2017 by katharina guenther

The book Art Souvenir: Francis Bacon, which I wrote in collaboration with The Estate of Francis Bacon, was just published by Gudrun Publishing. It is aimed at the general public and contains reproductions of Bacon’s paintings, a biography, a chronology of his … Continue reading →

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