EXHIBITIONS
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A Look Ahead
Updated March 2015
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Cover image: Head of a Man, circa 100 B.C. Creator Unknown. Greek. Bronze. Courtesy of the National Archeological Museum, Athens. Photo:
Maurie Mauzy / Art Reseource, NY. Ex. 2015.1.8
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Exhibitions at The GETTY
Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful
November 11, 2014–March 22, 2015
Romania, 1968, print 1980s. Josef Koudelka (Czech,
naturalized French, born 1938). The Art Institute of
Chicago, promised gift of Robin and Sandy Stuart. ©
Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos.
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After photographing theatrical productions in Prague and Roma
settlement camps across Eastern Europe, Josef Koudelka (born 1938)
risked his life to document the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of
Czechoslovakia. His images of the event, smuggled into the West and
reproduced worldwide, forced his exile. This exhibition—the first major
U.S. show devoted to Koudelka since 1988—presents more than 180
works produced over six decades by this legendary photographer,
including early photographic experiments, vintage Gypsies book prints
and maquettes, and a selection of large-scale panoramas that he has
made since 1986.
This exhibition was co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the
Art Institute of Chicago.
Curator: Amanda Maddox
World War One: War of Images, Images of War
November 18, 2014–April 19, 2015
World War I: War of Images, Images of War examines the art and
Le mot 1, no. 4 (January 2, 1915),
cover. Paul Iribe (French, 1883–1935).
The Getty Research Institute, Los
Angeles.
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visual culture of the First World War – a conflict of unprecedented
mechanized slaughter as well as a struggle over the cultural dominance
and direction of Europe. The exhibition juxtaposes the representation
of the war in visual propaganda with its depiction by artists who
experienced the brutality firsthand. Drawing principally from the Getty
Research Institute’s Special Collections, the exhibition features a range
of satirical journals, prints, posters and photographs, as well as
accounts from the front including a war diary, correspondence, and
“trench art” made by soldiers. Through such archival and graphic
material, WWI: War of Images, Images of War captures the trauma of
this first modern war.
Curators: Nancy Perloff, Anja Foerschner, Gordon Hughes and Phillip
Blom.
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Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from
Berthouville
November 19, 2014–August 17, 2015
Mercury, Roman, A.D. 175-225, Silver
and gold. Bibliothèque nationale de
France, Département des monnaies,
médailles et antiques, Paris.
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Accidentally discovered by a French farmer in 1830, the spectacular
hoard of gilt-silver statuettes and vessels known as the Berthouville
Treasure was originally dedicated to the Gallo-Roman god Mercury.
Following four years of meticulous conservation and research at the
Getty Villa, this exhibition allows viewers to appreciate their full
splendor and offers new insights about ancient art, technology,
religion, and cultural interaction. The opulent cache is presented in its
entirety for the first time outside Paris, together with precious gems,
jewelry, and other Roman luxury objects from the royal collections of
the Cabinet des médailles at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
This exhibition was organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in
collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département
des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris. Generous support was
provided by the Getty Museum’s Villa Council.
Curator: Kenneth Lapatin
Dangerous Perfection: Funerary Vases from Southern Italy
November 19, 2014–May 11, 2015
Funerary Vessel with Female
Figures; a Dionysian Scene; and
Greeks Battling Native Italic
Warriors, 350-325 B.C. Attributed to
the Darius Painter.
Antikensammlung,
Museen zu Berlin.
Terracotta.
Staatliche
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Thirteen elaborately decorated Apulian vases provide a rich
opportunity to examine the funerary customs of peoples native to
southern Italy and the ways they used Greek myth to comprehend
death and the afterlife. Displayed following a six-year conservation
project at the Antikensammlung Berlin and the Getty Villa, these
monumental vessels also reveal the hand of Raffaele Gargiulo, one of
the leading restorers of nineteenth-century Naples. His work
exemplifies what one concerned antiquarian described as “dangerous
perfection,” and the vases on view offer a window into the ongoing
debate concerning the degree to which ancient artworks should be
repaired and repainted.
This exhibition was organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in
collaboration with the Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Generous support was provided by the Getty Museum’s Villa Council.
Curator: David Saunders
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In Focus: Play
December 23, 2014–May 10, 2015
Summer, The Lower East Side, New York City,
1937. Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (American, born
Austria, 1899–1968). Gelatin Silver Print. The J.
Paul Getty Museum. © International Center of
Photography.
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The introduction of photography in 1839 coincided with major social
and economic changes spurred by the Industrial Revolution and a
burgeoning culture of leisure. In addition to documenting historic
events, this new medium was used to record the everyday, including
the many ways people spent their free time. With the advent of faster
film and handheld cameras, dancing and carousing were captured with
the same enthusiasm as moments of respite and quiet contemplation.
This exhibition traces the development of the photographic subject of
leisure and play through the works of artists such as Roger Fenton,
Eugène Atget, Gertrude Käsebier, Brassaï, Larry Sultan, and Bill Owens.
Curator: Arpad Kovacs
Zeitgeist: Art in the Germanic W orld, 1800–1900
February 10–May 17, 2015
A Walk at Dusk, about 1830–1835. Caspar David
Friedrich (German, 1774–1840). Oil on Canvas. The
J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Between 1800 and 1900 the Germanic world underwent profound
intellectual, social, economic, and political changes. The Industrial
Revolution, the formal unification of Germany into a nation state, and
the invention of psychoanalysis shaped modern life and its
representations in art. This exhibition—which includes the works of
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810),
and Gustav Klimt (1862–1918)—brings together paintings, drawings, and
prints from the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute,
and distinguished local private collections to examine this pivotal
moment in Germanic history.
Curator: Lee Hendrix
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J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free
February 24–May 24, 2015
Mercury and Argus, before 1836.
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(British, 1775–1851). Oil on Canvas.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa,
Purchased 1951. Photo © National
Gallery of Canada.
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Extraordinarily inventive and enduringly influential, J. M. W. Turner
(1775–1851) produced his most important and famous pictures after the
age of sixty, in the last fifteen years of his life. Demonstrating ongoing
radicalism of technique and ever-original subject matter, these works
show Turner constantly challenging his contemporaries while remaining
keenly aware of the market for his art. Bringing together over sixty key
oil paintings and watercolors, this major international loan exhibition is
the first to focus on the unfettered creativity of Turner’s final years.
Curators: Julian Brooks and Peter Björn Kerber
The exhibition was organized by Tate Britain, in association with the J.
Paul Getty Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The
exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on
the Arts and the Humanities.
Renaissance Splendors of Northern Italian Courts
March 31–June 21, 2015
The Renaissance courts of northern Italy, among the wealthiest and
most sophisticated in Europe, attracted innovative artists who created
objects of remarkable beauty. Princes and other nobles offered painters
and illuminators favorable contracts and social prestige in return for
lavishly decorated panels and books. These works prominently
displayed their owners’ scholarly learning, religious devotion, and elite
status. Drawn from the Getty Museum’s permanent collection of
manuscripts, this exhibition celebrates the magnificent illuminations
that emerged from this courtly context—an array of visual riches fit for
the highest-ranking members of Renaissance society.
Initial S: The Conversion of Saint Paul,
about 1440–1450. Attributed to Pisanello
(Italian, by 1395–about 1455) and
Attributed to the Master of the Antiphonal
Q of San Giorgio Maggiore (Italian, about
1440–about 1470). Tempera colors, gold
leaf, gold paint, silver leaf, and ink on
parchment. The J. Paul Getty Museum.
Curator: Bryan Keene
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Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography
April 14–September 6, 2015
Chemical,
2013. James Welling
(American, born 1951). Chromogenic
print. Courtesy David Zwirner, New
York/London. © James Welling.
J. Paul Getty Museum
at the Getty Center
At a time when digital technologies offer increasingly sophisticated
options for producing, storing, and disseminating images, a number of
artists have turned their attention to exploring the essence of
photography, distilling it to its basic components of light-sensitive
emulsions and chemical development. These artists may use handcoated or expired papers, archival negatives, or custom-built cameras,
or they may eschew the use of a camera or film altogether. All employ
a variety of darkroom techniques that shift our understanding of
photography from a medium that accurately records the world to one
that revels in the medium’s materials and process.
Curator: Virginia Heckert
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In Focus: Animalia
May 26–October 18, 2015
Dog Sitting on a Table, about 1854.
Hand-colored daguerreotype. The J.
Paul Getty Museum.
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Photographs of animals have circulated since the early history of the
medium, initially focusing on those that were tame, captive, or dead.
Advancements in camera and film technologies enabled precise
recordings of beasts in motion and, eventually, in their natural habitats.
Spanning the history of photography, this exhibition examines the
expanding tradition of animal representation through the works of
artists such as Horatio Ross, Adolphe Braun, Alfred Stieglitz, Lisette
Model, William Wegman, Sandy Skoglund, and Taryn Simon.
Curator: Arpad Kovacs
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A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis
XIV, 1660–1715
June 16–September 6, 2015
Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre,
1661. Robert Nanteuil (French, 1623–
1678) after Nicolas Mignard (French,
1606–1668). Engraving. Getty Research
Institute (2010.PR.60)
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From grand royal portraits to satiric views of everyday life, and from
small-scale fashion prints decorated with actual fabrics to monumental
panoramas of Versailles and the Louvre, this exhibition explores the
rich variety of prints that came to define French supremacy in the era
of Louis XIV (1638–1715). During the Sun King’s long reign, printmakers
and publishers effectively deployed prints to promote French culture,
art, and style. Commemorating the 300th anniversary of Louis XIV’s
death, A Kingdom of Images features nearly 100 works from the Getty
Research Institute and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
This exhibition was organized by the Getty Research Institute in special
collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Curator: Louis Marchesano
Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action
June 23–September 13, 2015
Head of a Young Woman, Full Face,
1515–1520. Andrea del Sarto (Italian,
1486–1530). Black chalk. Fondation
Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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This major loan exhibition celebrates the transformation of the art of
drawing by Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530), one of the greatest
Florentine Renaissance artists. Moving beyond the graceful harmony
and elegance of his elders and peers, such as Leonardo da Vinci,
Raphael, and Fra Bartolommeo, Sarto brought unprecedented realism
and immediacy to his art through the rough and rustic use of red chalk
and the creation of powerful life and compositional studies. Comprising
rare drawings and panel paintings from key international collections,
the exhibition fully illuminates Andrea del Sarto's inventiveness,
creative process, and workshop practice.
Curator: Julian Brooks
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Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic
World
July 28–November 1, 2015
During the three centuries between the reigns of Alexander the Great
and Emperor Augustus, artists around the Mediterranean created
innovative, realistic sculptures of physical power and emotional
intensity. Bronze—with its reflective surface, tensile strength, and
ability to hold the finest details—was employed for dynamic
compositions, graphic expressions of age and character, and dazzling
displays of the nude body. This major international loan exhibition
unites more than fifty large-scale bronzes of the Hellenistic age.
Curators: Jens Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin
Detail of Herm bust of the Doryphoros
of Polykleitos, 1st century B.C. Signed
by Apollonios of Athens (Greek, active
1st century B.C.) Bronze. 22 13/16 x 26 x
11 ½ in., 80 lb. Accession No.
EX.2015.1.24. Soprintendenza per i Beni
Archeologici di Napoli - foto Luigi Spina
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This exhibition was organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in
collaboration with the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and the
National Gallery of Art in Washington. It is supported by an indemnity
from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Bank of America is the National Presenting Sponsor of this
international touring exhibition. The Los Angeles presentation is also
supported by the Getty Museum’s Villa Council.
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