Annabelle Görgen-Lammers’ online lecture accompanying the exhibition Toyen: The Dreaming Rebel.
It seems that Toyen used many different pictorial concepts which changed in different phases of her work. How did they develop, and which recurring characteristics can we find when tracing the processes out of which they emerged? Focusing on the early 1930s and illuminating aspects of the historical, artistic, and personal contexts and of encounters between theories, personalities, and works of other international surrealists might help us to grasp Toyen’s unique way of approaching spectres even.
It seems that Toyen used many different pictorial concepts which changed in different phases of her work. How did they develop, and which recurring characteristics can we find when tracing the processes out of which they emerged? Focusing on the early 1930s and illuminating aspects of the historical, artistic, and personal contexts and of encounters between theories, personalities, and works of other international surrealists might help us to grasp Toyen’s unique way of approaching spectres even.
Annabelle Görgen-Lammers is an art historian who received her PhD for her research in Surrealism. She has been a guest lecturer at various universities and is the exhibition-curator of Hamburger Kunsthalle. She has conceived and realized numerous international exhibitions of 19th and 20th-century art, with many of them presenting new aspects of Surrealism. She initiated the cooperation between Musée d’art moderne Paris, National Gallery Prague and Hamburger Kunsthalle to realize the first solo exhibition of Toyen’s work in Germany. Together with Anna Pravdová and Annie Le Brun she is a co-curator of the show presented in Prague, Hamburg, and Paris.
The lecture will be held in English with Czech subtitles.
The cycle of lectures for the NGP exhibition Toyen: The Dreaming Rebel will focus on Toyen’s paintings, drawing series, and illustrations. Attention will be paid to the artist’s works from the 1920s to her late years. Her life and career will be set in historical and artistic contexts linked to the Surrealist groups in Czechoslovakia and France. Additionally, the painter’s oeuvre will be viewed from the perspective of contemporary art tendencies. The lecture by Meghan Forbes from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, delivered in English, will analyse the tourist guidebook to Paris from the 1920s that Toyen published together with her Czech friends living in this bohemian metropolis. In his lecture, delivered in French, Bertrand Schmitt, a director, poet, essayist, and member of the Paris Surrealist Group, will focus on the painter’s contacts with the Paris Surrealists and their mutual inspiration. These lectures will be broadcast with Czech subtitles. The cycle will include further lectures in Czech that will be presented by Barbora Bartůňková, Jaromír Typlt, Michal Novotný, Martina Pachmanová, Anna Pravdová, Anna Smékalová, and Jindřich Toman. The hosts of the cycle will be Markéta Ježková, Jitka Šosová, Alena Štěrbová, and Monika Švec-Sybolová.
Price: free / Duration: approximately 70 min. / Place: FB NGP
Price: free / Duration: approximately 70 min. / Place: FB NGP
