Face to Face. Cézanne's Self-Portrait to Bonnard. Self-portrait: Cézanne to Bonnard.
Silvana Editorial| N° d'inventaire | 24019 |
| Format | 19 x 27 |
| Détails | 232 p., 145 illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Milan, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788836649228 |
The problem of the self-portrait is indeed the most mysterious and inaccessible in the history of painting. In the 20th century century, the self-portrait is no longer just the affirmation of a function but the seat of a deeper reflection, a way of questioning one's double, in a constant search for inner truth, while revealing to the eyes of others an invisible part of oneself.
This search for self-awareness is transformed into a fiction through each self-portrait, in a representation often very far removed from what the artist sees in the mirror, representing in some way a momentary truth which is replayed in each work and expressed in very different ways according to the painters.
Alongside Bonnard, works by Balthus, Bernard, Cézanne, Chagall, Denis, Maillol, Matisse, Manguin, Marquet, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, Vallotton, Buffet, Goetz, Hélion, Ibels, Poliakoff, Roussel, Tal Coat and Vieira da Silva will be presented.
In this adventure of the gaze, the essays of Jean Louis Schefer, Alain Lévêque and Véronique Serrano provide historical insights and open up avenues for reflection; that of Roberto Mangú Quesada carries the voice of a painter, a precious testimony of the one who inevitably rubs shoulders with this other who inhabits him.
Exhibition catalog: Le Cannet, Musée Bonnard, June - October 2021.
Bilingual French / English.
The problem of the self-portrait is indeed the most mysterious and inaccessible in the history of painting. In the 20th century century, the self-portrait is no longer just the affirmation of a function but the seat of a deeper reflection, a way of questioning one's double, in a constant search for inner truth, while revealing to the eyes of others an invisible part of oneself.
This search for self-awareness is transformed into a fiction through each self-portrait, in a representation often very far removed from what the artist sees in the mirror, representing in some way a momentary truth which is replayed in each work and expressed in very different ways according to the painters.
Alongside Bonnard, works by Balthus, Bernard, Cézanne, Chagall, Denis, Maillol, Matisse, Manguin, Marquet, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, Vallotton, Buffet, Goetz, Hélion, Ibels, Poliakoff, Roussel, Tal Coat and Vieira da Silva will be presented.
In this adventure of the gaze, the essays of Jean Louis Schefer, Alain Lévêque and Véronique Serrano provide historical insights and open up avenues for reflection; that of Roberto Mangú Quesada carries the voice of a painter, a precious testimony of the one who inevitably rubs shoulders with this other who inhabits him.
Exhibition catalog: Le Cannet, Musée Bonnard, June - October 2021.
Bilingual French / English.