Mon 20 May 2024, 18.30 – 20.30
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Join us for drinks in the Art Café to celebrate the final weeks of The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads.
Followed by Professor Mark Hallett (MA 1989, PhD 1996), Märit Rausing Director, The Courtauld, in conversation with Dr Barnaby Wright (BA 1999, MA 2000, PhD 2005), Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery and Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century Art, in the beautiful surroundings of the LVMH Great Room at The Courtauld Gallery, London.
Professor Hallett and Dr Wright will explore and discuss this important exhibition and the remarkable body of work Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) created as a young artist in post-war London.
£25 includes complimentary drink and entry to the exhibition
Professor Mark Hallett is the Märit Rausing Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art. Prior to arriving at The Courtauld in April 2023, Professor Hallett spent more than a decade as the Director of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, a London-based research centre that is part of Yale University.
As an art historian, Professor Hallett is best known for his many publications on British art, and for his curatorial involvement in a series of major exhibitions at venues including Tate Britain, the Royal Academy, the Wallace Collection, and the Yale Center for British Art. His work ranges from major monographs and exhibitions devoted to the eighteenth-century artists William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds, to publications on the contemporary artists George Shaw and Frank Auerbach.
Dr Barnaby Wright is a specialist in late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century art with a particular interest in modern British art. He studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art (BA, MA, PhD, 1996–2004) and began his curatorial career in 2005 as Exhibitions Curator at the Hermitage Rooms in Somerset House, London.
He became a curator at The Courtauld Gallery in 2007 and has curated and co-curated a series of exhibitions including: Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Nudes (2007–08); Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites 1952–62 (2009–10); Cezanne’s Card Players (2010–11, second venue The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Mondrian-Nicholson: In Parallel (2012); Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901 (2013); Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude (2014–15); Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys (2017–18); and Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen (2021). He has also curated and co-curated a variety of contemporary shows at The Courtauld including, Richard Serra: Drawings for the Courtauld (2013); Jasper Johns: Regrets (2014); Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat (2015–16); Peter Doig (2022) and Claudette Johnson: Presence (2023–24). He is the curator of The Courtauld’s current exhibition, Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads.
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