Den her har vi længe taget tilløb til, for det er virkelig en af de store: Moebius Major Fatal, eller Jerry Cornelius’ Hermetiske Garagge, eller slet og ret ‘Garagen’. Vi fik endelig indspillet på et tidspunkt hvor vi kort var i samme tid og på samme sted og her er vores tanker i al deres rodede vælde. Vendingerne ‘fuuuuck’ og ‘groteskt fedt’ bliver brugt lidt oftere end normalt… Lyt!
In the latest issue of Print Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1, I review three publications — an exhibition catalogue from the Uffizi and two scholarly anthologies — around the Venetian writer, polemicist and literary activist Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), with a specific view to their treatment of Aretino’s relationship with prints and printmaking.
Aretino was involved in printmaking throughout his career, employing it as a way of self-promotion but also encouraging creative engagement in the medium on the part of his friends, not least Titian. In the review, I reattribute the design of an engraved portrait of Aretino of around 1534 by Jacopo Caraglio, and a woodcut frontispiece based on the same model, to Titian. Consult the issue at your local art library!
Publications reviewed: Anne Bisceglia, Matteo Ceriana and Paolo Procaccioli, eds., Pietro Aretino a l’arte nel Rinascimento, exh. cat. Florence, Uffizi, Florence 2019; Anne Bisceglia, Matteo Ceriana and Paolo Procaccioli, eds., “Pietro Pictore Aretino”: Una parola complice per l’arte del Rinascimento, Venice 2019; and Anne Bisceglia, Matteo Ceriana and Paolo Procaccioli, eds., Inchiostro per colore: arte e artisti in Pietro Aretino, Rome 2019.
Poster det her ganske forsinket, fordi alt har været så travlt, men jeg er ret stolt af denne episode, hvor vi sammen med tidligere Ping-høvding Ida Dybdal diskuter Julie Doucet og hendes karriere, i (forsinket!) anledning af, at hun vandt den Store pris i Angoulême i marts. Lyt, lyt! og check mere info på Nummer9.
It is here! After six years of planning: the great Raphael exhibition that I’ve co-curated with Tom Henry and David Ekserdjian has opened at the National Gallery in London. It presents a comprehensive overview of Raphael’s entire career and charts his creativity across media and art forms, beyond drawing and painting to architecture and to design for tapestry, print, sculpture and the applied arts, as well as his activities as an archaeologist and art theorist. Even his essays in poetry are included. Need I say that the loans we have received from across Europe and the United States are incredible?
Originally planned for 2020, to mark the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death on 6 April, Good Friday 1520, it was postponed due to the pandemic. I’m relieved that it is finally happening. Raphael feels so urgent today, not least after two years of pandemic and the outbreak of the war in Ukraine and with the sometimes crushing awareness of the challenges posed by climate change and environmental destruction. Raphael’s art and whole ethos is the opposite of that — a passionate assertion of human dignity, community and civilisation. Art doesn’t change the world, of course, but it still reflects it.
Do go, often and repeatedly, if you can. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Book here.
Raphael’s Portrait of Lorenzo de’Medici
The Metabunker summarizes the problems of attribution surrounding the Raphael portrait sold at Christie’s in 2007
Den her blev lang, men det var fantastisk at genforenes over tegneserier med Andreas Gregersen og bare tonser derudaf. Vi valgte på indskydelse Daniel Clowes’ mesterlige tegneserienovelle “Caricature” fra 1995, da den forekom os righolding på tanker, præcision og betydning. Det holdt stik — vi snakkede i godt to timer om de 16 sider, der udgør tegneserien. Et nøgleværk fra midt i en karriere, der hører til blandt de mest markante i nyere tegneseriehistorie.
Lyt med og hæng på — jeg lover dig det er tiden værd! Og, som altid, læs mere på Nummer9 og følg os på Instagram.
Og så læs i øvrigt Andreas’ fantastiske essay fra 2005 om Clowes’ The Death Ray og Ice Haven her på sitet og, på dansk, i Rackhams arkiv.
I participated in the venerable In Our Time with Melwyn Bragg in an episode on the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo, alongside Catherine Fletcher from Manchester Metropolitan University and Sarah Vowles of the British Museum. It was a lot of fun and, I hope, an informative discussion. The brodcast was yesterday, but you can download the extended podcast version via BBC Sounds and, eventually, on other podcast platforms.
Den her var hård at lade op til, men vi fandt lidt glæde ved at læse en håndfuld martrende tegneserier: Raymond Briggs’ When the Wind Blows, Jacques Tardis C’était la guerre des tranchées og Keiji Nakazawas Hadashi no Gen.
Lyt her og læs mere på Nummer9.
I dagens bogtillæg til Information kan man læse min anmeldelse af Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli og Christie Scheeles klassiker Daredevil: Born Again, der for nylig blev udgivet samlet på dansk for første gang. Hermed et uddrag:
Skildringen af heltens sammenbrud er kropsnært men også metaforisk visualiseret. Kapitelåbningerne følger ham uroligt sovende, set oppefra, først i sin seng, så i et luset hotelværelse og til sidst på et leje af skraldeposer i en gyde i tiltagende fosterstilling. Man lugter sveden under hans lurvede, blå dynejakke. Da han ender i en smadret taxa på bunden af East River, suggereres vandets dunkle grums af fintmaskede rasterark under Christie Scheeles besk tonede fladefarvelægning.
Læs det hele her, hvis du har betalt penge til avisen.
I vores seneste episode snakker Thomas Thorhauge og Frederik Storm med Christopher Leo fra Troldspejlet om Matt Reeves’ nye film The Batman og Batman mere bredt, som kulturelt fænomen og del af den pesonlige dannelse. Lyt her og læs mere på Nummer9.