Picture courtesy of George Hoyningen-Huene Property Archives
Dubbed the “lion of vogue pictures”, George Hoyningen-Huene delivered among the most placing portraits of the early twentieth century merging artwork, luxurious vogue, music, and cinema. His modern and experimental work was impressed by numerous inventive traditions together with surrealism, modernism, and neoclassicism. His mastery of those themes would go on to encourage a era of future photographers together with Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon. The cultural significance of George Hoyningen-Huene is highlighted within the exhibition “George Hoyningen-Huene: The Grasp of Élégance & Attract” at ARTitude Galeria. Introduced and dropped at Singapore by Grupo Artitude, the first-of-its-kind exhibition showcases a retrospective of Hoyningen-Huene’s memorable works. Displayed for the primary time in Singapore, the exhibition showcases a plethora of surreal black and white pictures, together with portraits of artists, fashions, and society’s higher crust, in addition to breathtaking photos of the celebs of Hollywood’s golden age.
The exhibition is in collaboration with the George Hoyningen-Huene Property Archives and goals to shine a highlight on Hoyningen-Huene’s versatile set of expertise encompassing his use of studio lighting in addition to being one of many first vogue photographers to shoot his topics in daylight.
Who’s George Hoyningen-Huene
Born within the yr 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia, George Hoyningen-Huene first made a reputation for himself as a well-respected vogue illustrator. His artwork instructor was the French cubist painter André Lhote. George Hoyningen-Huene ultimately discovered his solution to Paris the place he met the famend surrealist photographer, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) resulting in many collaborative sequence of vogue pictures in 1924. He would then discover himself as one of many pioneers of contemporary vogue pictures, capturing the model of Parisian high fashion vogue homes the likes of Chanel, Balenciaga and the jeweller Cartier. In 1946, Huene was persuaded to make the journey to Hollywood by director George Cukor, a transfer that may finally see Huene making the shift from vogue to cinema, photographing among the twentieth century’s best film stars together with Ingrid Bergman, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn. It was there the place he showcased his prowess and appreciation for style, artwork and sweetness.
The Surrealist Motion
Picture courtesy of George Hoyningen-Huene Property Archives
The phrase “surrealist” was coined by the French avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917 and suggests “past actuality”. Whereas in 1924, André Breton outlined surrealism partly as “pure psychic automatism” and “the absence of all management exercised by cause, exterior of all aesthetic and ethical preoccupation”. In essence, surrealism is other-worldly creations derived from mysticism depicting dream-like states with the liberation of inventive expressions. Enter George Hoyningen-Huene, a photographer who understood the artwork of chic simplicity and the escapism of surreal portraits.
His elegant black-and-white works and his comprehension of studio lighting set him other than the black and white photographers that got here earlier than him who, till then, photographed out of doors landscapes and nature. His work encapsulated French avant-garde with glamorous sensuality, understanding the human form, silhouettes and performs on shadow and lightweight. There’s a cause why regardless of greater than half a century after his demise, his legacy of vogue and cinematic pictures now’s arguably extra impactful than it was when he was alive.
Picture courtesy of George Hoyningen-Huene Property Archives
The George Hoyningen-Huene Property Archives had been established in 2020 by Tommy and Åsa Rönngren to protect the photographer’s legacy, share his work with a wider viewers, and encourage up to date creatives. The “George Hoyningen-Huene: The Grasp of Élégance & Attract” exhibition is a part of that legacy and goals to showcase the works of Hoyningen-Huene to a brand new era of younger creatives and artwork lovers in Singapore.
The George Hoyningen-Huene: The Grasp of Élégance & Attract at ARTitude Galeria exhibition will run from 26 April to 24 Might at No.9 Dempsey Street #01-11, Singapore 247697
11:00 AM – 19:00 AM Open Each day
Admission is free
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