Heidenreich week at Berkeley Art Museum
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way | 510.642.0808
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
In conjunction with Carl Heidenreich & Hans Hofmann in Postwar
New York, on view through October 3, 2004.
Special Free Screening
Land and Freedom
Monday,
September 20, 7 pm
Introduced by Ignacio Navarrete
PFA Theater
A significant chapter in Carl Heidenreich's life-and one that
had lasting effects on his artistic career-was his participation
in the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista),
an anti-Salinist Leftist faction supporting the Republican
cause in Spain in the 1930s.
Ken Loach's 1995 film, Land and Freedom, is a compelling dramatization
of the Spanish Civil War as experienced by a young working-class
man from Liverpool who, inspired by newsreels about the situation
in Spain, journeys to Barcelona to enlist on the side of the
Republic. Ignacio Navarrete, associate professor in UC Berkeley's
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, will introduce the film.
Curator's Talk
Alla Efimova
Thursday, September 23, 12:15 pm
Gallery A
In the late 1940s, both Carl Heidenreich and Hans Hofmann
turned to abstract painting. If for Hofmann abstraction represented
an assertion of inner vision and the liberation of the individual,
for Heidenreich it was a result of a complex negotiation with
the New World. Alla Efimova, chief curator at the Judah L.
Magnes Museum and guest curator of the exhibition, examines
the differing artistic strategies of these two émigré painters.
Panel Discussion
Martin Jay, Anne Wagner, Alla Efimova
Carl Heidenreich and German Émigré Culture from
the Weimar Republic to Postwar New York
Thursday, September 23, 3-5 pm
Museum Theater
Bringing together a multidisciplinary group of scholars, this
program will provide a context for the work of Carl Heidenreich.
Speaking about "the expressionist emancipation of color," Martin
Jay, professor of history at UC Berkeley, will take up the
interrelationship of art and politics in the Weimar Republic.
UC Berkeley art history professor Anne Wagner will consider
the significance of Heidenreich's work in the larger context
of postwar abstract painting, and guest curator Alla Efimova
will address the cultural milieu of New York's émigré-artist
community.
Public programs are included with museum admission.
