Chazen Calendar December 2016–January 2017 | Page 2

exhibitions
FACADES: Photographs by Markus Brunetti
September 2–December 31, 2016 | Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries

In 2005, Markus Brunetti along with his partner Betty Schoener built a mobile studio and set off across Europe capturing the
façades of historic cathedrals, churches, and cloisters in minute detail. What began as a one-year project has become an openended journey, yielding monumental photographs of exquisite resolution. The buildings, which span the architectural styles from
Romanesque to Baroque, are rendered in extraordinary detail, revealing visual information normally visible only to birds, and
perspectives not seeable on location. To create a single work, Brunetti takes hundreds or thousands of frames over the course
of weeks or, if necessary, years. He then assembles the individual frames into his own hyper-realistic interpretation of the
entire façade, stripped of all modern-day elements. The end result is as much like an architect’s elevation as a photograph.

Presenting Shakespeare: Posters from Around the World
October 14–December 11, 2016 | Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries

To create the first-ever curated collection of international Shakespearean theatrical posters, designers
Mirko Ilić and Steven Heller assembled around 1,500 examples. Their 2015 book, Presenting Shakespeare,
includes 1,100 “historically significant, aesthetically desirable, and conceptually intelligent [posters] produced
over nearly two centuries, in many countries and by varied artist, designers and illustrators.”
Presenting Shakespeare: Posters from Around the World is a selection of these posters, chosen to accompany
the Wisconsin showing of the Folger Library’s First Folio!: The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare at the Chazen.

DomKultury, Poland, 2002, designer: Monika Starowicz (Dydo Poster Collection), courtesy of Mirko Ilić.

Markus Brunetti
(German, b. 1965),
Orvieto, Duomo di
Santa Maria Assunta,
2006–2014, from
the series FACADES,
archival pigment
print, 70 4 ⁄ 5 x 59 in.,
© Markus Brunetti,
courtesy Yossi Milo
Gallery, New York.