Past Event
Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters
Saturday, September 26, 2015
4-6PM
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to host a lecture and booksigning reception on Saturday, September 26 with author Stefan Banz. The event is in celebration of the new publication Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters, published by KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp | The Forestay Museum of Art. It coincides with the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery exhibition, Naked at the Edge: Louis Eilshemius, on view Tuesday, September 8 through Saturday, October 31.
BOOKSIGNING / LECTURE / RECEPTION
Please join Michael Rosenfeld Gallery and KMD - Kunsthalle Marcel DuChamp | The Forestay Museum of Art to celebrate the publication
EILSHEMIUS: Peer of Poet-Painters
Saturday, September 26, 2015
4:00 Reception
4:30 Lecture by author Stefan Banz
5:15 Book Signing
Please RSVP to [email protected]. Space is limited.
About the Book
In his long awaited book, Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters, author Stefan Banz has gathered an abundance of astonishing and hitherto unavailable and/or unknown documents – the nucleus of which are Eilshemius’s countless and controversial letters to the editor that appeared in such American newspapers as The New York Times and The New York Sun. In his expansive essay, Banz is the first to question whether and to what extent Eilshemius influenced the artistic thinking of Marcel Duchamp and also, whether and in what way he inspired Duchamp to open new doors for twentieth century art. With illustrations from over seventy public and private collections, this book gives the reader a profound insight into the fascinating oeuvre of this historically significant artist.
This is the first comprehensive monograph (768 pages) on the artist with 529 illustrations and new scholarship, providing profound insight in to this historically significant artist (Zurich, Switzerland: JRP/Ringier, 2015).
Winner of the 2016 Rollins Book Award!
About the Author
Stefan Banz is an author and artist. In 1989, he co-founded the Kunsthalle Luzern and served as its first artistic director until 1993. From 1994 to 1997, he was the artistic consultant and curator of Galerie Hauser & Wirth (Zurich). In 2005, he served as the curator for the Swiss Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. In 2009, he co-founded with Caroline Bachmann the KMD – Kunstalle Marcel DuChamp, and in 2010, he co-organized “Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall” in Cully, Switzerland. Since its inception, he has been the artistic director of KMD. His most recent publications include: What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall (2009); Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall (2010); Das Wespennest ist eine Kathedrale. Ein Gespräch mit Jean-Christophe Ammann (2011); La Broyeuse de chocolat. Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt (2013) (editor with Caroline Bachmann and Ralf Beil); Marcel Duchamp: Pharmacie (2013); and Jeff Wall: With the Eye of the Mind (2014).
About KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp | The Forestay Museum of Art
KMD was founded in 2009 as an artistic project by Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz with the aim of organizing a symposium and an international event devoted to Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall. KMD is an homage to Marcel Duchamp’s Box in a Valise. It is situated on the shore of Lake Geneva, not far from the Forestay Waterfall, which the artist photographed in 1946 as the starting point of his last masterpiece Etant donnés: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’éclairage...KMD exhibits internationally acknowledged and emerging artists, and publishes hardcover books in small format.