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American artist Lisa Oppenheim (1975, New York) has been invited to create a new body of work in response to the artistic practice of Edward Steichen (1879, Bivange, Luxembourg - 1973, Redding, Connecticut). Oppenheim’s exhibition explores peripheral and often lesser-known aspects of the work of the Luxembourg-born American photographer and exhibition curator: his paintings, which he abandoned and largely destroyed in the 1920s; his lifelong passion for flowers, particularly Delphiniums, of which he created several varieties, and his textile designs from the 1920s, based on photographs of everyday objects. 'Steichen’s wide-ranging practice is hard to imagine in our age of hyper-specialisation,' Oppenheim observes. 'In this exhibition, I would like to inhabit the practice of Steichen rather than examine any particular project. I plan to do with the work of Steichen what he did throughout his own long life: inhabit his tendency to ingest and reconstitute a wide range of practices and ideas and in that way hopefully expand an understanding of what it is to be a cultural producer.' The exhibition also includes several photographs by Steichen from the collection of the MNAHA in Luxembourg, highlighting the role women played in his life and work, and the way he incorporated their presence and gestures into his photographs. Presented in the same installation, the works of Oppenheim and Steichen depict an abstract, subjective and kaleidoscopic portrait of 'Monsieur Steichen'. Experience this exhibition through the lens of its curator Christophe Gallois.
Where does it take place?
Mudam Museum of Modern Art
3 Park Drai Eechelen
1499 Luxembourg
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