American Women's Club of Hamburg Currents Magazine January 2014 | Page 32

AR TS & ENTER TAINMENT

Ar t in the City
by Ulrike H.

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen
GUY BOURDIN
RETROSPECTIVE
through January 26, 2014
The legendary photographer Guy Bourdin (1928–
1991), whose career spanned more than forty years,
worked for the world’s leading fashion houses and
magazines. With the eye of a painter, Guy Bourdin
created images that contained fascinating stories,
compositions, both in B&W and in color. This
most comprehensive exhibition to date is both
an overview of the essential components of Guy
Bourdin’s oeuvre and an introduction to unveiling
works from his personal archives which have never
been seen before.This is the first time that both his
works as a painter and his notes on films will be
shown at an exhibition. B&W shots dating from
the 1950s are also included, showing portraits
of artists and views of the city of Paris as well
as Polaroids, sketches and texts. The exhibition
examines Guy Bourdin’s oeuvre, but moreover,
it provides insight into the complex working
processes of the photographer’s mind and aims to
establish his status as a visionary image-maker.

Pentax-Kalender, 1981. Asahi Optical Company Limited. Tokyo, Japan.
© Estate of Guy Bourdin (WITH HEART)

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Hamburger Kunsthalle
Two exceptional women artists at the Galerie der
Gegenwart through March 2, 2014
Gego
Line as Object

Gego during installation of Reticulárea. Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
1969 Photo: Juan Santana © Fundación Gego

Gertrud Goldschmidt (Hamburg, 1912–Caracas,
1994), widely known as Gego, was one of the
most important women artists in Latin America.
Born and brought up in Hamburg, she originally
trained as an architect in Stuttgart. Gego was of
Jewish origin and emigrated in 1939 to Venezuela,
where she began working as an artist and also as
a university teacher. Her delicate, rhizomatically
structured objects made of metal and wire
challenged the traditional definition of sculpture as
an enclosed mass and volume. Gego also pursued
transparency and lightness in her numerous works
on paper, where she employed lines as objects. Her
groundbreaking and experimental approach to
sculpture and ‘drawing in space’ had a significant
influence on subsequent generations of artists in
Latin America, leaving its mark on contemporary
art far beyond Venezuela. In Europe, on the other
hand, Gego’s work is much less well known. This
exhibition – the first of its kind in Germany – is
therefore a tremendous opportunity to experience
her unique work at first hand.
American Women’s Club of Hamburg e.V.