"LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY. RETROSPECTIVE" par Ingrid PFEIFFER & Max HOLLEIN. Editions Prestel, Munich-Berlin-London-New York. 2009. Imprimé en Tchéquie. Petit in-4 format oblong, couverture cartonnée noire sous jaquette illustrée en couleurs. 192 pages. Texte en anglais de Max Hollein, Ingrid Pfeiffer, Herbert Molderings, Ulrike Gärtner, Gerald Köhler, Joyce Tsai & Kai-Uwe Hemken, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc et couleurs, in-texte et hors texte, de travaux et portraits de László Moholy-Nagy. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme au Schirn Kunsthalle Franfurt, du 08 Octobre 2009 au 07 Février 2010.

 

"The importance of László Moholy-Nagy for modern art lies primarily in the way he overcame the restrictions of artistic specialization. The present extensive exhibition clearly demonstrates this fact with some 170 paintings, photographs, photograms, sculptures, films, stage designs, and typographic work. For the first time in almost 20 years all the work groups of the Hungarian-born artist and Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy are presented together in the Schirn Kunsthalle. Coinciding with the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, this extravagant exhibition presents the vast artistic oeuvre of Moholy-Nagy from his early achievements in Berlin and at the Bauhaus to his late works in the United States. As one of the pioneering artists of his time, Moholy-Nagy eagerly grasped the new possibilities in art and design as well as the technical achievements of his era. His curiosity and love of experimentation were aroused in particular by new materials such as plastics and celluloids. Throughout his life this versatile artist would present ever-new variations in the design media, linking them together and developing them continuously. Moholy-Nagy's artistic aim of integrating art, technology, science, and human experience into a universal master plan is typical of the wealth of idealistic and utopian designs which characterized the 1920s, not only in Germany. His work, which in his later years continued to reflect the development of the Bauhaus ideas of the 1930s and 1940s, retains its fascination and artistic appeal to this day…" Max Hollein.

 

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