Lisa Oppenheim: Monsieur Steichen
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The American artist Lisa Oppenheim (1975, New York) was invited to create a new set of works in response to the artistic practice of Edward Steichen (1879, Bivange, Luxembourg – 1973, Redding, Connecticut). Her exhibition focuses on peripheral and often overlooked aspects of the American photographer and exhibition curator's work: his pictorial production, which he abandoned and largely destroyed in the 1920s; his passion for flowers, particularly Delphiniums, of which he created several varieties; the textile design patterns he produced in the mid-1920s from photographs of everyday objects. "The scope of Steichen's practice is hard to imagine in our age of hyperspecialization," says Lisa Oppenheim. "Through this exhibition, I wish to inhabit Steichen's practice rather than focus on a specific project. To engage with Steichen's work as he did throughout his long life—embracing the ability he had to assimilate and recompose a multitude of practices and ideas and, in doing so, hopefully broadening the understanding of what it means to be a cultural producer." The exhibition also includes several of Steichen's works from the MNAHA collection in Luxembourg, highlighting the role played by women in his life and work, and the way he integrated their presence and gestures into his photographs. Presented together in a single installation, Oppenheim's and Steichen's works create an abstract, subjective, and kaleidoscopic portrait of "Monsieur Steichen."
Where does it take place?
Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
3 Park Drai Eechelen
1499 Luxembourg
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