{"id":2783,"date":"2020-06-02T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/framemuseums.org\/new\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:57:19","slug":"stanley-william-hayters-atelier-17-towards-a-free-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/framemuseums.org\/fr\/stanley-william-hayters-atelier-17-towards-a-free-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley William Hayter and the World in an Atelier: Converging Stories of Surrealism and Abstraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Rennes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition was originally scheduled to be on view from February 12 to May 3, 2021. Due to the lockdown and the pandemic, a video of the show will be available soon.<\/p>\n

The painter and engraver Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was born in England. He moved to Paris where he created a studio of engraving known as \u201cAtelier 17\u201d (Studio 17). Pablo Picasso, Joan Mir\u00f3, Yves Tanguy, Andr\u00e9 Masson, and Alberto Giacometti, then many artists from different generations explored engraving as a new field of creation in their studio. For more than 60 years, Atelier 17 turned out to be a unique, transatlantic, and cosmopolitan creative lab. It welcomed generations of artists, including many women such as Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Louise Bourgeois, Nina Negri, and Helen Phillips, while Surrealist automatic writing and new forms of abstraction were in contact in the studio.<\/p>\n

Around Hayter\u2019s work, prints, paintings, and sculptures offer an immersion in the creative processes implemented by the artists of Atelier 17, from the cutting of the plate to the inking and printing experiments. The works of nearly 70 artists from the Modernist avant-garde are presented in the exhibition, while the new forms of European and American abstraction are taking shape. Hayter, through his creativity and teaching, was able to renew the practice of engraving which he disseminated across the world, in the middle of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

First Section \u2013 Paris, 1927-1939<\/strong>
\nFrom the opening of his Parisian engraving studio in 1927, Hayter oriented his teaching towards intaglio. His Urban Landscapes, from 1930, cross architectural perspectives and dreamlike figures, close to the automatism promoted by the Surrealists. His students came from diverse backgrounds. Hayter\u2019s studio was open and well-known artists came to experiment engraving at Atelier 17, close to the Surrealist universe.<\/p>\n

Artists presented in the exhibition for the 1930s:<\/em>
\nJohn Buckland Wright – Alberto Giacometti – Stanley William Hayter – Joseph Hecht – Dalla Husband – Vassily Kandinsky – Roderick Mead – Joan Mir\u00f3 – Nina Negri – Gabor Peterdi – Pablo Picasso – Anton Prinner – Dolf Rieser – Arpad Szenes – Yves Tanguy – Luis Vargas Rosas – Roger Vieillard – Maria Helena Vieira da Silva<\/p>\n

Second Section \u2013 New York, 1940-1950<\/strong>
\nThe Parisian Atelier 17 closed its doors in 1939. Hayter relocated its studio to the New School for Social Research in New York, becoming the landmark of European Surrealists in exile. From 1943, the engravings were mostly abstract, as well as Hayter\u2019s works. In contact with the Surrealists, the young generation of American artists discovered in engraving an inexhaustible field of creation. In 1946, Hayter introduced a simultaneous color printing process. The success of this technique is contemporary with Abstract Expressionism, which brings, in a non-figurative aesthetic, an immediate emotional intensity. For Jackson Pollock \u2013 who owes to Hayter the notion of dripping to some extent – as well as for Robert Motherwell, engraving is essential to their expression. Color is introduced spontaneously into the abstract compositions of these young abstract artists. In addition, more and more women artists were working at Atelier 17.<\/p>\n

Artists presented in the exhibition for the 1940s:<\/em>
\nEllen Abbey Countey – Margaret Balzer Cantieni – Frederick Becker – Alicia Bell Legg – Louise Bourgeois – Letterio Calapai – Marc Chagall – Minna Citron – Edward Countey – Dorothy Dehner – Sari Dienes – Christine Engler – Francine Felsenthal – Sue Fuller – Milton Gendel – Peter Grippe – Terry Haass – Anita Heiman – Ian Hugo – Margaret Kettunen Zegart – Mauricio Lasansky – Jacques Lipchitz – Andr\u00e9 Masson – Joan Mir\u00f3 – Robert Motherwell – Louise Nevelson – Gabor Peterdi – Helen Phillips – Jackson Pollock – Andr\u00e9 Racz – Abraham Rattner – Karl Schrag – Doris Seidler – Kurt Seligmann – Alice Trumbull Mason – Roger Vieillard – Enrique Za\u00f1artu<\/p>\n

Third Section \u2013 Paris, 1950-1964<\/strong>
\nIn 1950, Hayter asked Enrique Za\u00f1artu to find a Parisian location for Atelier 17. We can notice two characteristics for the prints produced at Atelier 17 in this decade: the superposition of colors is worked in multiple shades. The engraving plates bear the mark of the open bite thanks to which chance and virtuosity come together when the engravings are printed. The reference to nature appears and the work of color is omnipresent.<\/p>\n

Artists presented in the exhibition for the 1950s to 1964:<\/em>
\nPierre Alechinsky – Isolde Baumgart – Fran\u00e7oise Bricaut – Jean Clert\u00e9 – Corneille – Anthony Gross – Terry Haass – Jacques H\u00e9rold – Sigismond Kolos-Vary – Richard Lacroix – Wifredo Lam – Andr\u00e9 Masson – Yoshiko Noma – Helen Phillips – Roger Platiel – Bernard Rancillac – Krishna Reddy – Nono Reinhold – Jean-Claude Reynal – Dolf Rieser – Hector Saunier – Karl Schrag – Gail Singer – Yves Tanguy – Eugenio T\u00e9llez – Enrique Za\u00f1artu.<\/p>\n

This exhibition was made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France and with the support of FRAME. It is part of an American Season in France, in partnership with the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019arts de Nantes, the Mus\u00e9e Fabre in Montpellier and the Centre de la Vieille Charit\u00e9 in Marseille, all members of the FRAME network.<\/p>\n

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