Programme

GUIDED TOUR

9 October, 3 pm

Jeremy Lewison, curator of the Alice Neel exhibition, hosts a guided tour together with the director of Moderna Museet Malmö, Magnus Jensner. In English. The guided tour is included in the admission fee.

FILM SCREENING

10 October , 21 November, 2 January, 4 pm

This autumn, Moderna Museet Malmö and cinema Biograf Spegeln are screening a documentary about the life of Alice Neel. The film, made by her grandson Andrew Neel, is a personal reflection on a highly interesting artistic career, which challenged many contemporary conventions. Please note that the film will be shown at Biograf Spegeln, at Stortorget in Malmö.

The film screening is free of charge. In order to reserve a seat to the film screening, please, send an e-mail to: info.malmo@modernamuseet.se

CONCERT

17 and 24 October, 12 pm, 2 and 4 pm

As part of Music and Art Around, students of the Malmö Academy of Music and the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music will perform a specially-composed piece inspired buy Alice Neel’s exhibition Painted Truths. The concert will be held in the exhibition space and forms part of the art experience.

LECTURES

10 November, 7 pm

The author Phoebe Hoban who recently published a biography on Alice Neel talks about the artist and her life. In English.

28 November, 2 pm
Alice Neel and the Photographic Image

The development of Alice Neels art runs parallel with the development of twenieth century photography. Jeremy Lewison, co-curator of Alice Neel: Painted Truths, examines similarities and differences between the painted and the photographed portrait.

It has been common to situate Alice Neel’s art within the context of painting, drawing comparisons with the work of Matisse, Picasso, Kokoschka, Van Gogh, Munch, Dix and Beckmann among others. One might, however, equally consider the photographic environment into which Neel inserted her work, not least because her idiom, which might be described loosely as realist, can be directly related to the interests of certain photographers of her era.

In his lecture Jeremy Lewison will examine the relationship of Neel to photography in the twentieth century and suggesting that developments in her painting and her approach to image making were closely allied to changes in approach in photography. Drawing on the work of Nadar, August Sander, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt, Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon, to name only a few, Lewison will suggest that Neel’s art, if not closely allied to avant-garde painting, was closely linked to cutting edge photography.

In English.