ART FAIRS 2012
JAMES HYMAN GALLERY is delighted to participate in this year's Masterpiece London Art Fair from 28 June - 4 July, 2012 and Frieze Masters London Art Fair from 11-14 October 2012.
Held on the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Masterpiece brings together the world's top exhibitors of distinctive design and aesthetic excellence.
Frieze Masters will give a unique contemporary perspective on historical art alongside the annual contemporary art fair Frieze, held annually in Regents Park. Approximately 70 of the world's leading galleries will show work made before the year 2000, ranging from antiquities and old masters to art of the 20th century.
A new publication will accompany each of these exhibits.
FROM SERMONS IN STONES TO MONSTERS OF MODERNITY
JAMES HYMAN PHOTOGRAPHY is delighted to present a specially curated exhibition of rare, early salt prints, including some of the rarest prints by the earliest masters of the medium.
From Sermons in Stones to Monsters of Modernity. Early French Photography and the Church brings together two of the greatest achievements of Western civilisation: Gothic architecture and the invention of photography.
The exhibition title references the religious significance of the portal programmes of Gothic cathedrals with their multiple biblical scenes as well as the gargoyles of Notre Dame that were the mid-nineteenth century invention of Viollet-le-Duc.
The exhibition traces the ways in which the great Gothic churches and cathedrals of France were placed at the heart of their work by the most important French photographers of the 1840s and 1850s.
The artists presented will include Edouard Baldus, Edmond Bacot, Hippolyte Bayard, Bisson Freres, Ange Mailand, Pierre Manguin, Charles Negre, Emile Pecarrere (Em. Pec.), Henri Le Secq, Varin Freres.
The exhibition is accompanied by a new book on the subject with an essay by James Hyman.
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