Painting today
- Date
- 15 April 2019 – 5pm
- Place
- Auditorium
In conjunction with the “The Collection of the Fondation. A Vision for Painting” exhibition, the Fondation is hosting a conference followed by a debate on the pictorial medium and its associated issues. Ancient technique that is regularly declared to be outmoded, painting remains the medium of choice in the collective imagination, in artistic practice, in current society, at art fairs, in museums and, above all, on the market.
Yan Pei-Ming (Artist/Painter), Isabelle Graw (Art Historian) and Anaël Pigeat (Art Critic) will share their perspectives on painting’s vitality, which is constantly being renewed.
The programme
- Conference
- The vitality of painting – notes on the success of a medium
- Isabelle Graw
- Art Historian
- Round table
- “Painting today”
- Sébastien Gokalp
- Moderator
- Yan Pei-Ming
- Artist/painter
- Anaël Pigeat
- Art Critic
- Isabelle Graw
- Art Historian
Speakers
ISABELLE GRAW
Isabelle Graw (Frankfurt am Main/Berlin) is a professor of art theory and art history at the Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main.
She founded "Texte zur Kunst“ in 1990 with the late Stefan Germer and co-edited and conceptualized 113 issues so far. In 2003 she co-founded the "Institut für Kunstkritik“ at the Städelschule with Daniel Birnbaum. Current research areas: Criticism and its markets, judgment and value-creation under new forms of capitalism, Trace and Agency in Painting.
Yan Pei-Ming
Since the end of the 1980s, Yan Pei-Ming has been known for his “epic-sized” canvasses, often bi-chromatic, painted with large expressive brushes.
After growing up in a Buddhist monastery until the age of eight, and becoming a propaganda painter, Pei-Ming left China in 1980 and moved to France. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Dijon in 1986 and began to work in portraiture, considered a minor genre in China. Pei-Ming made his name the following year with his first series, Heads of Mao. After winning the Prix de Rome in 1993 he has painted many portraits, based on models or documents, of both anonymous and iconic people (Michael Jackson, Jean-Paul II, Bruce Lee, etc.). At the same time, since the mid-1990s, he has revived the tradition of historical painting. Continuing the line of painters such as Goya, David, Delacroix and Géricault, Pei-Ming turns media images of illegal immigrants, the Iraq war or 9/11 into timeless scenes depicting the tragic destiny of humanity. Depicting strength and weakness, compassion and violence, his paintings of himself, Christ, his dying father, big cats or weapons of war form timeless frescos that make no concessions.
ANAËL PIGEAT
Art critic, journalist and exhibition curator, Anaël Pigeat is a former student of the Courtauld Institute of Art. She worked at the Louvre and at the Museum of Modern Art of Paris as Head of the cultural department.
Editor-in-chief of Art press from 2011 to 2018, she is now editor-at-large of a new monthly paper The Art Newspaper French edition. She is a columnist at La Dispute, producer of France Culture’s Masterclasses and contributes to the cultural column of Paris Match on visual arts. She has been a member of numerous art schools’ boards and is part of the selection committees of the Colas Prize and the Jean-François Prat Prize.
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