Lucian Freud
03 Sep - 29 Nov 2015
Louisiana On Paper
LUCIAN FREUD
3 September – 29 November 2015
Presenting graphic works from a unique collection, Lucian Freud - A Closer Look offers a rare and intriguing chance to examine one of Britain's most influential and compelling artists.
Louisiana presents a large selection of works on paper by the renowned British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011). The works are almost all drawn from the UBS Art Collection, one of the largest corporate collections of contemporary art in the world. Comprising 52 exquisite examples of the artist’s graphic production after 1982, when Freud focused on etchings, this exhibition is part of the museum's Louisiana on Paper series.
Freud was painter of human figures whose images cut bluntly to the bone in their treatment of men and women as fleshly creatures, and the leap into the graphics may seem strange, since it is painting that can release the physical look of the body most vividly. But Freud is similar in this regard to the painter Edvard Munch, who also was a masterful graphic artist: The flesh may perhaps disappear, but the body remains. And the face in particular gains strength when the color is eliminated and the drawing takes over.
Lucian Freud – A Closer Look explores the artist’s distinctive depictions of the human body – strong, confrontational, challenging and impossible to ignore – and allows us to examine the sum of gazes, sensations and actions as expressed in the distinctive black and white work. This exhibition follows the highly successful retrospective of Lucian Freud paintings that was presented by Louisiana in the autumn of 2007.
Lucian Freud works courtesy of the UBS Art Collection www.ubs.com/art
LUCIAN FREUD
3 September – 29 November 2015
Presenting graphic works from a unique collection, Lucian Freud - A Closer Look offers a rare and intriguing chance to examine one of Britain's most influential and compelling artists.
Louisiana presents a large selection of works on paper by the renowned British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011). The works are almost all drawn from the UBS Art Collection, one of the largest corporate collections of contemporary art in the world. Comprising 52 exquisite examples of the artist’s graphic production after 1982, when Freud focused on etchings, this exhibition is part of the museum's Louisiana on Paper series.
Freud was painter of human figures whose images cut bluntly to the bone in their treatment of men and women as fleshly creatures, and the leap into the graphics may seem strange, since it is painting that can release the physical look of the body most vividly. But Freud is similar in this regard to the painter Edvard Munch, who also was a masterful graphic artist: The flesh may perhaps disappear, but the body remains. And the face in particular gains strength when the color is eliminated and the drawing takes over.
Lucian Freud – A Closer Look explores the artist’s distinctive depictions of the human body – strong, confrontational, challenging and impossible to ignore – and allows us to examine the sum of gazes, sensations and actions as expressed in the distinctive black and white work. This exhibition follows the highly successful retrospective of Lucian Freud paintings that was presented by Louisiana in the autumn of 2007.
Lucian Freud works courtesy of the UBS Art Collection www.ubs.com/art