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JULIAN SCHNABEL
Polaroids

07.06.–04.08.2018

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For the first time in Austria, OstLicht Gallery presents Julian Schnabel’s photographic work. The American painter, sculptor and filmmaker has been taking unique photographs for over a decade using a rare twenty by twenty-four inch Polaroid Land camera made in the 1970s.

 

Schnabel doesn’t take pictures so much as makes them. Many of the works brought together here are portraits of the artist’s family and friends. These photographs are sketches of Schnabel’s life. There are charismatic portraits of Lou Reed, Plácido Domingo, Mickey Rourke, and Max von Sydow; private rooms in the Palazzo Chupi in New York; his studios in Montauk and Manhattan. Highly personal, poetic images result. Their immediacy and warmth account for much of their magic. These works embody the spontaneous act of trying to take a picture – they are pretty simple in that way. They are images of friendship, of love, of an engaged life, and of melancholy too. They record the transformation of life into art.

 

Schnabel took his first Polaroid picture in 2002 with the twenty by twenty-four inch handmade camera. Only six of these cameras are still known to exist. Because of its massive construction, its slow lens and the necessity to use powerful flash units, it was originally conceived for studio shoots, but the bulkiness of this apparatus leaves Schnabel unaffected. He resists its predetermined handling and operates this giant machine in various spaces, even outdoors. The large-format Polaroid film allows for a wide range of tones and shades that are unrivalled in their nuances.

 

In addition to the Polaroids, Schnabel will also show two paintings from 2010, »Untitled (Crazy People)« . These paintings are Polaroid pictures taken of photos from the 1920s that Schnabel found in France, enlarged onto a polyester canvas and painted on with purple ink.

 

On the occasion of his exhibition at OstLicht Gallery the artist again used the twenty by twenty-four inch Polaroid camera and photographed with it for the first time in Vienna.

 


 

All Polaroids are available for sale. The unique prints were taken with a 20x24 inch Polaroid camera and are signed by the artist.

 


 

IMPRESSIONS FROM THE OPENING &

PORTRAIT SHOOT WITH HERMANN NITSCH

 

Peter Coeln & Julian Schnabel © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Reiner Opoku, Hermann Nitsch & Louise Kugelberg © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Opening of the exhibition »Julian Schnabel: Polaroids« at OstLicht © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Peter Coeln (OstLicht/WestLicht) & Julian Schnabel © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Reiner Opoku, Hermann Nitsch, Louise Kugelberg, Dr. Frank Holzer & Dr. Semira Kaya © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Opening of the exhibition »Julian Schnabel: Polaroids« at OstLicht © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Angelika Ahrens-Gutenbrunner, Kurt Gutenbrunner & Louise Kugelberg © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Peter Coeln (OstLicht/WestLicht) & Dr. Semira Kaya © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Opening of the exhibition »Julian Schnabel: Polaroids« at OstLicht © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Alfred Weidinger & Dr. Josef Ostermayer © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Mona Coeln & Stefanie Moshammer © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Corina Lueger (OstLicht) © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Lisa Kandlhofer (Lisa Kandlhofer Gallery) © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Mona Coeln © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Opening of the exhibition »Julian Schnabel: Polaroids« at OstLicht © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Hermann Nitsch & Julian Schnabel © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Hermann Nitsch & Julian Schnabel © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Dr. Semira Kaya & Hermann Nitsch © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Hermann Nitsch & Peter Coeln (OstLicht/WestLicht), Reiner Opoku, Louise Kugelberg © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Hermann Nitsch & Peter Coeln (OstLicht/WestLicht), Reiner Opoku, Louise Kugelberg © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Jan Karel Hnizdo © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Hermann Nitsch & Julian Schnabel © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Portrait shoot with Hermann Nitsch by Julian Schnabel as part of the opening of the exhibition »Julian Schnabel: Polaroids« at OstLicht © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Julian Schnabel, Hermann Nitsch & Reiner Opoku © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Portrait shoot with Hermann Nitsch by Julian Schnabel as part of the opening of the exhibition »Julian Schnabel: Polaroids« at OstLicht © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Andreas H. Bitesnich © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Julian Schnabel & Hermann Nitsch © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Portrait shoot with Hermann Nitsch by Julian Schnabel as part of the opening of the exhibition »Julian Schnabel: Polaroids« at OstLicht © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
Julian Schnabel & Hermann Nitsch © Marlene Fröhlich | luxundlumen / OstLicht
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Untitled (Placido Domingo) by Julian Schnabel - OstLicht

Julian Schnabel

Untitled (Placido Domingo) 2008

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