Bust of Annette by Alberto Giacometti, 1954.
The square is cut from a NPG leaflet for ‘Giacometti: Pure Presence’, 2015/16.
You can see the whole piece here .
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Sonia Delauney
This is Sonia Delauney at Bielefeld, in 1958.
The square is taken from a leaflet for a wonderful exhibition at Tate Modern in 2015.
Photographer not credited.
You can see the whole piece here .
Kurt Schwitters
This woman had been unidentified for years, until a bloke named John Eaton, spotted her on an advert for Community Silverplate Cutlery. Turns out, she is a teacher.
She is part of En Morn (1947), by Kurt Schwitters.
The square is cut from the little booklet that accompanied the exhibition, ‘Schwitters In Britain’ (2013) at Tate Britain.
You can see the whole piece here .
Marlene Dumas
This is a detail from a piece of art by Marlene Dumas (Rejects, 1994 – 2014).
I cut the square from a leaflet for the exhibition ‘Image As Burden’, Tate Modern, 2015.
The photographer is not credited.
You can see the whole piece here .
Eric Huntley
Eric Huntley at the Walter Rodney bookshop, photo by Syd Jeffers.
Eric and his wife Jessica (the caption doesn’t say so, but I’m thinking that might be her, standing behind him) were radical book publishers and political activists.
They established Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications (named after Caribbean resistance heroes) in 1968, to promote radical Black writing.
In 1974, they opened a bookshop in West Ealing, London, later to become the Walter Rodney Bookshop. It quickly established itself as a drop-in advice centre, with book launches, school workshops and poetry readings.
The square is cut from a leaflet for a free Guildhall exhibition (2015) entitled ‘No Colour Bar’. The highlight of which, for me, was a recreation of the bookshop.
Sadly, I was unable to gather any information about Syd Jeffers, the photographer.
You can see the whole piece here .
Discobolus
Marble statue of a discus-thrower (Discobolus). One of several Roman copies of the Greek original bronze version by Myron, 5th century BC.
In 1938, Hitler, funded by the German government, bought one of said Roman copies. The Italian family who owned it had fallen upon hard times, and so offered him up for sale. He was earmarked for the Metropolitan Museum in New York, but it couldn’t afford him.
Discobolus became a Nazi poster boy, whether he liked it or not.
In 1948 he was returned to Italy, and can now be seen in the National Museum, Rome.
The square was cut from a British Museum leaflet (2015).
This is the first patch of my ‘London Exhibition Patchwork’. It is a patchwork made from leaflets of exhibitions I have visited in London. There are sixteen squares in total.
You can see the whole piece here .
London Exhibitions Patchwork
The squares are cut from leaflets for exhibitions I have visited. For sale in my Folksy shop.
Credits in links: Discus Thrower, Tom, Marlene Dumas, Toby, Eric Huntley, Sonia Delaunay, Kurt Schwitters, Alberto Giacometti, Egon Schiele, John Singer Sargent, Allen Jones, Laura Knight, Indigenous Australia, Alexander McQueen, Gustav Klimt, Ai Weiwei
