Allen Jones, First Step, 1966, Öl auf Leinwand, kunststoffbeschichtetes Holz, 91,5 x 91,5 cm, Sammlung Allen Jones, © Allen Jones, 2012
16 junho - 16 setembro, 2012
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Alemanha
Allen Jones, Chair, 1969, Stahl, Fiberglas, u.a., 61 x 84 x 145 cm, Sammlung Gunter Sachs, © Allen Jones, 2012
O preeminente artista Pop britânico Allen Jones causou um furor internacional em 1969, com suas esculturas móveis provocativas. Em 1979, a primeira retrospectiva em larga escala foi dedicada ao artista, com 41anos, na época, em Liverpool, Londres, Baden-Baden, e Bielefeld.
The leading British Pop artist Allen Jones caused an international furor in 1969 with his provocative furniture sculptures. In 1979, the first large-scale retrospective was devoted to the artist, forty-one at the time, in Liverpool, London, Baden-Baden, and Bielefeld.
Allen Jones, A Figment in Pigment, 1969, Öl auf Leinwand, 245 x 305 cm, Sammlung Liliane Fawcett, © Allen Jones, 2012
Seu 70 º aniversário foi comemorado em 2007 no Tate Britain em Londres com uma exposição de obras atuais, bem como vária de suas primeiras obras. Na ocasião de seu 75 º aniversário, o Kunsthalle de Tübingen está estendendo um convite a redescobrir a obra do artista influente internacionalmente na retrospectiva mais abrangente até à data.
His 70th birthday was celebrated in 2007 at the Tate Britain in London with an exhibition of current works as well as several early pieces. In time for his 75th birthday, the Kunsthalle Tübingen is extending an invitation to rediscover the oeuvre of the internationally influential artist in the most comprehensive retrospective to date.
Allen Jones, Table, 1969, Stahl, Fiberglas, u.a., 61 x 84 x 145 cm, Sammlung Gunter Sachs, © Allen Jones, 2012
As esculturas notáveis de 1969, que retratam as mulheres transformadas em peças de mobiliário, também serão mostradas na mais completa retrospectiva Allen Jones até à data: uma com as mãos estendidas que serve como um cabide, uma mesa composta de uma mulher posando como um obediente cão faria, uma mulher deitada de costas com a parte traseira de suas coxas pressionado contra seu corpo e suas pernas no ar servindo como uma cadeira - todas elas rechonchudas, de seios nus, e pernas longas, e armadas de estiletes e acessórios de couro.
The notorious sculptures from 1969, which depict women transformed into pieces of furniture, will also be shown in the most comprehensive Allen Jones retrospective to date: one with outstretched hands that serves as a hat stand, a table consisting of a woman posing as an obedient dog would do, a woman lying on her back with the back of her thighs pressed against her body and her lower legs aloft serves as a chair—they are all buxom, bare-breasted, have long legs, and are armored with stilettos and leather accessories.
Allen Jones, Stand In, 1991/92, Öl auf Sperrholz und Fiberglas, 185 x 185 x 63 cm, Sammlung Allen Jones, © Allen Jones, 2012
As esculturas parecem realistas, apesar do exagero erótico; aparentemente tanto que elas ainda são, como eram então, numa situação de não só trazer inimigos jurados da pornografia para a cena, mas também os arautos da auto-expressão sexual.
The sculptures seem realistic despite the erotic exaggeration; apparently so much so that they are still, as they were then, in a position not only to bring sworn enemies of pornography onto the scene but also the heralds of sexual self-expression.
Allen Jones, Secretary, 1972, Mischtechnik, 99 x 47 x 77 cm, Sammlung Gunter Sachs, © Allen Jones, 2012
"Nothing is as it seems"—this is now Allen Jones once described the guiding principle behind his creative work, and thus it would be a fatal error to confuse the depicted content with the message of the work of art. It is fiberglass and steel forced into the shape of furniture—and not people!
Allen Jones, Enchanteresse, 2006, Fiberglas, Leder und rostfreier Stahl, 196 x 45 X 45 cm (Sockel 81 cm), Sammlung Allen Jones, © Allen Jones, 2012
Para o artista, não se trata de desprezo às mulheres, mas restrições de questionamento sobre o pensamento livre e barreiras morais. Em sua escolha da expressão coloquial "Off The Wall" para o título do catálogo da exposição, o que significa excêntrico ou não convencional, Jones transporta temas triviais, como alusões sexuais de publicidade e do show business para as artes visuais, a fim de estilizar e satiriza-los . No entanto, "Off The Wall" também é para ser entendida em um sentido literal: longe de representação bi-dimensional, fora da parede e para o mundo!
For the artist, it is not about contempt for women but questioning restrictions on free thought and moral barriers. In his choice of the colloquial expression "off the wall" for the title of the exhibition catalogue, which means eccentric or unconventional, Jones transports trivial themes such as sexual allusions from advertising and show business into the visual arts in order to stylize and satirize them. Yet "off the wall" is also to be understood in a literal sense: away from two-dimensional representation, off the wall and out into the world!
Allen Jones, A Question of Grammar, 1986, Öl auf Leinwand, 152 × 152 cm, Privatsammlung, London, © Allen Jones, 2012
Ele partiu da imagem de painel pela primeira vez com as telas formadas por suas pinturas de ônibus de 1962. Com suas esculturas sadomasoquistas de 1969 ele cruzou o limiar do visual ao háptico, a fim de novamente abordar a pintura, por exemplo, com uma figura feminina que tem sair de uma composição abstrata em 1991/92, ou esculturas que lembram cut-out e motivos pictóricos dobrados.
He departed from the panel picture for the first time with the formed canvases of his bus paintings from 1962. With his sadomasochistic sculptures from 1969 he crossed the threshold from the visual to the haptic in order to again approach the painting, for example with a female figure he has step out of an abstract composition in 1991/92, or sculptures resembling cut-out and folded pictorial motifs.
Allen Jones, Self-Portrait, 1957, Öl auf Holz, 55 x 38 cm, Sammlung Allen Jones, © Allen Jones, 2012
Jones uses this spatial-pictorial ambivalence to interpret the grand theme of Pop Art: the transgression of the barrier between art and everyday life. Yet in the process, he never succumbs to the false conclusion of being able to tear down the boundaries between these two spheres. Rather, he defends the autonomy of the aesthetic by, for example, having figuration encounter abstraction, by symbolically overdrawing body forms or by, two years before Georg Baselitz, placing motifs upside down.
Allen Jones, Little Echo, 2003, Bemaltes Holz, 41 x 37 x 19 cm, Sammlung Allen Jones, © Allen Jones, 2012
Thus, his oeuvre points beyond the democraticizing Pop Art impulse and seduces us with sensual physicalness into the spheres of art-theoretical reflection.
Allen Jones, Man Woman, 1963, Öl auf Leinwand, 215 x 189 cm, Tate, Schenkung der Contemporary Art Society, 1968, © Allen Jones, 2012
Em 1979, a primeira retrospectiva em larga escala foi dedicadaao artista, 41, na época, em Liverpool, Londres, Baden-Baden, e Bielefeld. Seu 70 º aniversário foi comemorado em 2007 no Tate Britain em Londres com uma exposição de obras em curso, bem como várias primeiras peças.
In 1979, the first large-scale retrospective was devoted to the artist, forty-one at the time, in Liverpool, London, Baden-Baden, and Bielefeld. His 70th birthday was celebrated in 2007 at the Tate Britain in London with an exhibition of current works as well as several early pieces.
Allen Jones, HatStand, 1969, Stahl, Fiberglas, u.a., 191 x 108 x 40 cm, Sammlung Allen Jones, © Allen Jones, 2012
Em tempo hábil para seu 75 º aniversário, a exposição no Kunsthalle de Tübingen está reunindo uma grande seleção de pinturas, esculturas e obras sobre papel criadas entre 1957-2009 pela primeira vez. Esta retrospectiva mais abrangente até o momento, desenvolvida em colaboração com o Instituto Intercâmbio Cultural de Tübingen, convida os espectadores a redescobrir a obra do artista Inglês influente internacionalmente.
Just in time for his 75th birthday, the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Tübingen is joining a large selection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper created between 1957 to 2009 for the first time. This most comprehensive retrospective to date, developed in collaboration with Tübingen's Institute for Cultural Exchange, invites viewers to rediscover the oeuvre of the internationally influential English artist.
The Kunsthalle Tübingen has a tradition of presenting large-scale exhibitions of Pop Art, having mounted solo shows of works by George Segal, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Duane Hanson, Tom Wesselmann, and Mel Ramos. With Allen Jones, another pearl is being added to the string.
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