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Man Ray, Installation view, Models, Fondazione Marconi, Milan, 2013
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Man Ray
Models, 1920-1940
From Man Ray's private album, vintage print
10,6 x 7 cm
Models, 1920-1940
From Man Ray's private album, vintage print
10,6 x 7 cm
Press Release
Man Ray. Models
Opening and presentation of the volume: November 14, 2013
November 15, 2013 - January 11, 2014
Opening and presentation of the volume: November 14, 2013
November 15, 2013 - January 11, 2014
The Marconi Foundation is pleased to present the exhibition Man Ray. Models on the occasion of the recent release of the volume, of the same title, published together with Carlo Cambi Editore, a faithful reproduction of a photograph Album created by Man Ray himself.
The exhibition includes the original pictures that the artist took of the models he met between 1920 and 1940.
He finally gathered them in an Album as a reminder of the models themselves and of their contribution to his photographic activity in those years.
This Album gathers 83 photographs. In each of them, displayed in their original version, the artist seeks to grasp the fleeting moment and runs through his most precious memories, giving birth to a sort of diary or love anthology.
The rigorous selection among the many photographs shot in those years attributes this collection the most intimate and autobiographic value.
The exhibition includes the original pictures that the artist took of the models he met between 1920 and 1940.
He finally gathered them in an Album as a reminder of the models themselves and of their contribution to his photographic activity in those years.
This Album gathers 83 photographs. In each of them, displayed in their original version, the artist seeks to grasp the fleeting moment and runs through his most precious memories, giving birth to a sort of diary or love anthology.
The rigorous selection among the many photographs shot in those years attributes this collection the most intimate and autobiographic value.
Man Ray’s photographic lens linger on faces, hair, eyes and details revealing female bodies and secrets, African dancers that enliven the nights of exotic Paris, anonymous dancers with the names of vegetables (Cabbage, Leek, Lettuce, Beet, Chili Pepper…); perfect women who have become popular, like Kiki (Alice Ernestine Prin), the queen of Montparnasse; paintress Meret Elizabeth Oppenheim; the charming model Natasha, who was also the artist’s assistant; Lee (Elizabeth) Miller’s convulsive beauty and, furthermore, Nusch, poet Paul Eluard’s wife.
The exhibition will run through Man Ray’s images, a myriad of heavenly and wide beauties, anonymous bodies and young women in blossom.
All of them actually represent the portrait of an era with its tastes, inclinations, atmospheres: the world in a box.
Art critic Janus will attend the exhibition opening.
He personally met Man Ray and became a close friend with him in the last 15 years of his life, so much that he became one of his most authoritative biographers and critics.
The exhibition will run through Man Ray’s images, a myriad of heavenly and wide beauties, anonymous bodies and young women in blossom.
All of them actually represent the portrait of an era with its tastes, inclinations, atmospheres: the world in a box.
Art critic Janus will attend the exhibition opening.
He personally met Man Ray and became a close friend with him in the last 15 years of his life, so much that he became one of his most authoritative biographers and critics.