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Email PagePainting Then For Now. Fragments of Tiepolo at the Ca' Dolfin
November 8, 2007- January 12, 2008
Reception: November 8, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Svetlana Alpers, James Hyde, Barney Kulok
David Krut Projects
526 W 26th StPainting Then For Now weaves together the contiguous disciplines of art history, painting and photography to consider the act of looking at painting as a creative practice. With nineteen photographic prints of sections of three paintings by Giambattista Tiepolo, Svetlana Alpers, James Hyde and Barney Kulok sustain a conversation about time, painting and photography.
In August 2006, the three collaborators spent six hours in front of three canvases from Tiepolo's Ca' Dolfin cycle (1726 - 1729), which depicts Roman battle scenes and triumphs, in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Alpers, Hyde and Kulok shot sections of the canvases with an 8 x 10" camera, which resulted in nine photographic negatives. These were scanned into a computer, dissected, discussed, then further sectioned to produce the final nineteen images. At two to three times the size of the actual canvases, the photographs forcefully bring us deep into Tiepolo's painting practice, revealing pigment, impasto, canvas weave and minutiae not available to the unprompted eye.
These photographs draw attention to the topicality of an eighteenth-century Venetian painter who addressed the enduring theme of war, presented to us in the modern context through photography. We are asked to take a long and thorough look at these slow and at times difficult works, which come into sight at various levels of legibility.
An 84 page publication featuring full color illustrations of the works will be released on the occasion of the exhibition.
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