Webinar: Chapel Service: Sacred Spaces and Post-war Art by TEFAF

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This event will go live at 1 PM EDT / 7PM CET (19:00)

Does historical art look incongruous in modernist buildings? Many of the 20th century’s leading architects certainly didn’t think so – and nor do the museum visitors who prize such eminent buildings and collections as the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon), the Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth), São Paulo Museum of Art and the Museo di Castelvecchio (Verona).

As the Frick Collection prepares for its temporary move into the Breuer building on Madison Avenue in New York – originally designed by Marcel Breuer to house the Whitney Museum of American Art – this discussion will place the Frick’s venture in the context of other modernist spaces in which historical collections have been displayed, many of them designed for the purpose. What aesthetic and interpretative possibilities are opened up by displaying pre 20th-century art in such buildings? What theoretical and practical demands do such projects make, in terms of materials, light or more broadly how modernist buildings envisage the relationship between people and interior space? What do we learn about historical works in these buildings? And does the architecture encourage us to see art differently?

Presenters

Thomas Marks

Moderator of TEFAF Talks and Editor, Apollo magazine

Thomas Marks has been the Editor of Apollo magazine since 2013, having previously worked as the magazine’s Deputy Editor. He was responsible for relaunching Apollo’s website as a daily forum for art news and opinion in 2013, and last year launched the Apollo 40 Under 40. He has contributed to a wide range of publications as a writer and critic, and is a co-founder of the online quarterly, 'The Junket'.

Annie Cohen-Solal

Academic and writer; author of ‘Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel’ (2015) and ‘Sartre: A Life’ (1987)

Annie Cohen-Solal is an academic and writer. For ever, she has been tracking down interactions between art, literature and society with an intercultural twist. After Sartre : A Life (1987) became an international success, she became French cultural counselor in the US (1989 to 1992). In New York, Cohen-Solal’s encounter with Leo Castelli led her to shift her interest to the art world. In her social history of the US artist, she published Painting American (2001); Leo Castelli & His Circle (2010); New York-Mid Century (2014), with Paul Goldberger and Robert Gottlieb; Mark Rothko (2013) all translated into languages. In 2014, as curator of Magiciens de la terre 2014 at the Centre Pompidou, she published Magiciens de la terre : retour sur une exposition légendaire, with Jean-Hubert Martin. As a professor, she held positions at Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), EHESS, University of Caen, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Freie Universität Berlin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her new project Picasso, the Foreigner will lead to an exhibition (Musée national Picasso-Paris and Musée de l’Immigration, March-July 2021) and an essay (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Fall 2022). Born in Algiers, Annie now lives between Paris (France) and Cortona (Italy).

Nausikaä El-Mecky

Tenure track professor at Pompeu Fabra University (Department of Humanities), Barcelona

Nausikaä El-Mecky specialises in attacks on art from iconoclasm to self-censorship in historical and contemporary settings. After obtaining her PhD in Art History from the University in Cambridge in 2013, she held postdoctoral fellowships at Humboldt University Berlin and Heidelberg University before starting her current position in Barcelona in 2018. She was elected as a member of the German Young Academy for its fifty outstanding young academics in 2017 and awarded the Maria Gräfin Award for original contributions to the humanities in the same year. She is the founder of Rebellious Teaching, an international platform for experimental, boundary-breaking education.

Aaron Rosen

Professor of Religion & Visual Culture and Director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Aaron Rosen is Professor of Religion and Visual Culture and Director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. and Visiting Professor at King’s College London, where he taught previously. He began his career at Yale, Oxford, and Columbia, after receiving his PhD from Cambridge. He has curated exhibitions around the world and written widely for scholarly and popular publications. He is the author and editor of many books, including 'Art and Religion in the 21st Century' and 'Journey through Art', translated into seven languages.