Picture courtesy of George Hoyningen-Huene Property Archives
Dubbed the “lion of trend pictures”, George Hoyningen-Huene delivered a number of the most putting portraits of the early twentieth century merging artwork, luxurious trend, 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 technology 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 & Allureat” 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 photographs of the celebrities 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 trend photographers to shoot his topics in daylight.
Who’s George Hoyningen-Huene
Born within the 12 months 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia, George Hoyningen-Huene first made a reputation for himself as a well-respected trend illustrator. His artwork instructor was the French cubist painter André Lhote. George Hoyningen-Huene finally discovered his strategy to Paris the place he met the famend surrealist photographer, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) resulting in many collaborative collection of trend pictures in 1924. He would then discover himself as one of many pioneers of contemporary trend pictures, capturing the fashion of Parisian high fashion trend 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 will finally see Huene making the shift from trend to cinema, photographing a number of the twentieth century’s biggest 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 wonder.
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 motive, 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 aside from 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 grade with glamorous sensuality, understanding the human form, silhouettes and performs on shadow and lightweight. There’s a motive why regardless of greater than half a century after his dying, his legacy of trend and cinematic pictures now could be 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 modern creatives. The “George Hoyningen-Huene: The Grasp of Élégance & Allureat” exhibition is a part of that legacy and goals to showcase the works of Hoyningen-Huene to a brand new technology of younger creatives and artwork fanatics in Singapore.
The George Hoyningen-Huene: The Grasp of Élégance & Allureat 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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