Betye Saar: Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis 2020/2020 Wolfgang Hahn Prize

Betye Saar: Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis 2020/2020 Wolfgang Hahn Prize

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Exhibition Catalog

Ed. by Carla Cugini. Gesellschaft fur Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2020. Published in association with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne.

64 pp. Moderately illustrated (chiefly col.). 27 x 20 cm. Bilingual in English and German. Paperbound.

ISBN 9783960989370

The Ge­sellschaft für Mod­erne Kunst am Mu­se­um Lud­wig purchased the as­sem­blage The Di­vine Face from 1971 to­gether with the Mu­se­um Lud­wig for the mu­se­um’s col­lec­tion as part of the prize award­ed to Be­tye Saar. The work will be pre­sent­ed in the mu­se­um’s col­lec­tion from June 1 to Septem­ber 12, 2021 along with two etch­ings re­cent­ly ac­quired through the “Per­len­such­er am Mu­se­um Lud­wig” ini­tia­tive as well as a col­lage and an artist’s book. The film Be­tye Saar: Tak­ing Care of Busi­ness, which was pro­duced by the Los An­ge­les Coun­ty Mu­se­um of Art (LAC­MA) for an ex­hi­bi­tion there in 2019/2020, will al­so be shown as part of the pre­sen­ta­tion. This recog­ni­tion of the artist, who was born in Los An­ge­les in 1926 and is still lit­tle known in Ger­many, is long over­due, the ju­ry con­sist­ing of Chris­tophe Cher­ix, Robert Leh­man Foun­da­tion chief cu­ra­tor of draw­ings and prints at the Mu­se­um of Mod­ern Art (Mo­MA) in New York; Yil­maz Dziewior, di­rec­tor of the Mu­se­um Lud­wig; and the board mem­bers of the as­so­ci­a­tion de­cid­ed. For more than fif­ty years, Be­tye Saar has cre­at­ed as­sem­blages from a wide va­ri­e­ty of found ob­jects, which she com­bines with draw­ing, prints, paint­ing, and pho­tog­ra­phy.

Subject Headings: Western Art -- United States -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 -- Mixed Media and Collage -- African American Artists ; Women Artists --

Artist(s): Saar, Betye

/ Status: Out of Print