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Studio Malick
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Malick Sidibé’s exuberant photographs offer a unique look at a time of political transition and cultural liberation. As Mali gained independence from France in 1960, the youth culture of music, dancing, and fashion exploded in this once-conservative West African nation and Sidibé’s ubiquitous lens chronicled it all. Through the use of props, posing, and a deft attention to personality, he developed a distinct style, fulfilling his clients’ aspirational self-presentation and achieving international recognition for these beautiful and nuanced studies of human character.
Malick Sidibé (Malian, b. 1935 or 1936)
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Questions of Travel
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Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “Questions of Travel” provides the focus for this installation. Since the beginning of recorded history, artists and writers have used the road trip—however long and whatever the destination—as source material. The works selected for display are the product of journeys, whether created by an American in Italy, a Cuban in St. Barts, or an Italian in Egypt. All of the paintings on view in Questions of Travel were donated to the museum by generous individuals; thus the installation opportunely amplifies our yearlong examination of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s history of collecting during our 35th anniversary celebrations. These images also literally and figuratively broaden our horizons, a particularly desirable outcome as the mission of Rollins College is to educate students for global citizenship. During a time of lazy summer vacations and fall break getaways, this installation offers refreshment and renewal to CFAM visitors from near and far.
Tomàs Aceves (Spanish, 19th/20th century) James David Smillie (American, 1833-1909) Emilio Sanchez (American, 1921–1999)
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Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf
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This exhibition, organized by Concordia University in Montreal and travelled internationally by Ben Uri, the London Jewish Museum of Art, will be presented at the Cornell to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht (November 9–10, 1938). Focusing on the case of Max Stern’s Berlin gallery, the exhibition addresses the issues of Nazi looted art and the on-going restitution efforts through the courts in America and Europe of works forcibly sold at the instruction of the Nazi regime. Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf was originally conceived, researched and curated by the Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. The exhibition is toured and presented by Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art. Please see www.benuri.org.uk for more information.
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Collected by the Cornell: Purchases with Acquisitions Funds
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During the museum’s 35th anniversary year, this exhibition serves as a sequel to Collecting for the Cornell. The project will chronicle a little-known—but fascinating—behind-the-scenes story: the varied origins of the museum’s several designated purchase funds and the acquisitions that resulted from difficult choices and considered deliberations. Works by such renowned artists as Dürer, Cézanne, and Picasso will be included. In addition, the show marks the first public display of L.C. Armstrong’s triptych, Romantic Landscape, since the artist’s one-person show at Rollins in 2008. |
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L.C. Armstrong, (American, b. 1954)
Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906) |
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Matisse as Printmaker: Works from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation
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Organized by the American Federation of the Arts and the Matisse Foundation, this exhibition completed a national tour in 2011 that was so critically acclaimed (according to The Washington Times, it “refreshed the typical view of Matisse”) that three more venues were added; the Cornell is one of them. The exhibition is drawn from the collection of Matisse’s son Pierre and includes more than sixty works which illustrate every printmaking medium the artist utilized (etchings, monotypes, aquatints, lithographs, linocuts in black and white and two-color prints). Together, they showcase the extraordinary range of Matisse's printmaking techniques and subjects and provide a rich examination of an understudied part of his oeuvre. |
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Tiepolo, Gainsborough, Van Loo: Paintings from the European Golden Age
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This installation strategically coincides with a show of Old Master paintings on view at the Orlando Museum of Art(http://www.speedmuseum.org/exhibitions/Rembrandt_Rubens_Gainsborough_and_the_Golden_Age_of_Painting_from_the_Collection_of_the_Speed_Art_Museum_in_Louisville_Kentucky). Against the amazing scientific and geographic discoveries and political and religious changes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the professional artists of Western Europe achieved an apogee of technique and content. This exhibition project provides the opportunity for CFAM, the area’s only encyclopedic museum collection, to highlight several works in its own possession by artists featured in OMA’s corresponding presentation. |
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727–1804) Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727–1788) Louis Michel van Loo (French, 1707–1771) |
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Studio Faculty Biennial Exhibition 2014
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The 2014 edition of the Studio Faculty Biennial will showcase exciting new or recent work by five artists: Joshua Almond, Rose Casterline, Dana Hargrove, Dawn Roe, and Rachel Simmons. |
