Julian Schnabel. Camera
A new show opens on May 30 - July 11 at the NRW-Forum
His paintings are huge. The rooms at his home in Manhattan are enormous, the place he built is a real Venetian palace in the West Village.
He has also taken numerous photographs using a massive 20 x 24 inch 1970's Polaroid camera on wheels, weighing over 200 pounds. Portraits of family and friends, including Lou Reed, Mickey Rourke and Placido Domingo, scenes from his life, shots of his home, Palazzo Chupi in New York; some photographs he has painted on. Many of these large photographs, measuring 51 x 61 cm, are being shown for the very first time.
I'm intrigued by this exhibition and look forward to the press conference on Friday. Then I can tell you more.
Julian Schnabel. Polaroids runs from 30th May until 11th July.
Join us for Friday Nights at the NRW-Forum.
After 6pm entry to both this exhibition and the
Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective is reduced to €3.80.
There is a free tour in English of the Mapplethorpe show at 9pm.
The Opening
Tours are generally not offered for the shows upstairs, but I found that Schnabel had so much to share with us at the press conference that I was keen to offer a mini tour of this exhibition.
So on July 9th RhineBuzz will give a special tour in English. Cost €2.00.
We are at the NRW-Forum every Friday from 8pm until midnight.
©RhineBuzz
Julian signs autographs for the press "lay the posters all out on the floor" he tells us
At first he seems reluctant to speak about the photographs. Then he peers at them and shares with us that he is seeing them hung in an exhibition this way for the very first time. So now he is discovering aspects in the images that he is also seeing for the first time. He is very pensive as he looks at his work. It is almost as though together with him we are able to share, quite intimately, scenes and stories from his life. He even tells us what he dreamt about last night, in his hotel bed in Düsseldorf.
These photographs are special. Their size, appearance, and themes have a great sense of nostalgia about them. And yet, they actually offer a rare glimpse into the life of one of the present arts world's most talked about artists, who also just happens to be an award-winning director. There's much to say about Mr Schnabel.
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The tour at the beginning of June went very well. We had 31 guests followed by an very entertaining
evening on the lovely terrace and in the bar.
Thank you all for turning up.
Thank you all for turning up.
Here a very nice piece about the show by Felisworld
