Name: JULIAN SCHNABEL: SELECTED WORKS FROM HOME
Start: 2024-08-04T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-27T23:59:59-04:00
Location: Guild Hall

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Julian Schnabel was a leading figure among the artists who reinvigorated the practice of painting in the late 1970s, adopting nontraditional materials and unconventional modes of construction to create monumental works. He remains one of the most seminal and prolific artists working today and has been a significant figure in contemporary art discourse since his first New York solo show at Mary Boone Gallery in 1979. His experimental and often revolutionary approach extends throughout his creative work in various mediums—including painting, sculpture, architecture, and award-winning feature films. Every aspect of his life is filtered through a painter’s lens, as Schnabel lives and works in carefully considered spaces, often en plein air, surrounded by objects dating from antiquity to the present, many created by artists and artist friends, both living and dead, and by the artist himself.

Julian Schnabel: Selected Works from Home presents a selection of the artist’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures from his personal collection—the works he has chosen to keep for himself and to live among. The works on view, made over the last 45 years, include an early wax painting, Procession (for Jean Vigo) from 1979; Salinas Cruz, a painting on velvet from 1984; paintings on printed materials and tarpaulins; and multiple plate paintings, which show the different possibilities of working in this manner and with this specific material over decades. Schnabel’s art evokes a deep yet elusive connection to humanity. The installation of his large-scale works within Guild Hall’s intimate galleries offers visitors an all-encompassing, contemplative experience—a rare opportunity to lose oneself in the artworks, their history, and their transformation —and to capture a sense of time suspended.

This exhibition is organized by Melanie Crader, director of visual arts, in close collaboration with the artist, and Patrick Hillman, executive assistant to Julian Schnabel.

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Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel’s work has been exhibited all over the world. His paintings, sculptures, and works on paper have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982;The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1982; Tate Gallery, London, 1982; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1987; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 1987; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1987; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1987; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, 1989; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 1989; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1989; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1989; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1989; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, 1994; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1995; Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, 1996; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main, 2004; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004; Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki, 2008; Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, 2009; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2010; Museo Correr, Piazza San Marco, Venice, 2011; The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, 2013; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, 2014; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2014; NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, 2014; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2016; Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, 2018; and Hall Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, 2017, 2022 and 2023.

Schnabel, an award-winning film director, has written and directed seven feature films. In 1995, Schnabel wrote and directed his first feature film, Basquiat, about fellow New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film was released in 1996 and was in the official selection of the Venice Film Festival the same year. Schnabel’s second film, Before Night Falls, based on the life of the late exiled Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival and Javier Bardem won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor. Javier Bardem was also nominated for Best Actor at the 2001 Academy Awards. In 2007 Schnabel directed his third film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Schnabel received the award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival as well as Best Director at the Golden Globe Awards, where the film won Best Foreign Language Film. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Director. The film was also nominated for seven 2008 César Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actor for which Mathieu Amalric won for his portrayal of Jean-Dominque Bauby. In 2007, he also made a film of Lou Reed’s Berlin concert at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. Miral, won the UNESCO as well as the UNICEF award at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Miral was shown at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations. At Eternity’s Gate (2018), a film about Vincent Van Gogh starring Willem Dafoe had its world premiere at the 2018 Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Lion Award. Dafoe won the Coppa Volpi at the 2018 Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Best Actor at the Golden Globes and 2019 Academy Awards. Schnabel has recently completed his seventh feature film, In the Hand of Dante, a film adaptation of Nick Tosches’s third novel of the same name, starring Oscar Isaac as well as Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Jason Momoa, Al Pacino, and Martin Scorsese. In the Hand of Dante will be released in the 2024/2025 season.

His work is in numerous museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao; Tate Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunstmuseum, Basel; Fondation Musée d’ArtModerne, Luxembourg; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Hall Art Foundation.

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Julian Schnabel. Photo: Louise Kugelberg, 2016

JULIAN SCHNABEL: SELECTED WORKS FROM HOME

Julian Schnabel

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