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Andreas Grimm Munich
May 4 - June 16, 2007
01. Lisa Tan, Portrait of Baudelaire, 2007, cprint in artist's frame
02. Lisa Tan, The Baudelaire Itineraries, Installation view – gallery northeast
03. Lisa Tan, Itinerary Based on Baudelaire’s Review of the Salon of 1846, p. 89, 2007, archival ink on canvas and
cprint in artist's frames
04. Lisa Tan, Art in Paris, 2007, cprint in artist's frame
05. Lisa Tan, The Baudelaire Itineraries, Installation view – gallery northwest
06. Lisa Tan, Don’t Play the Heartless One, 2007, cprint in artist's frame
07. Lisa Tan, Itinerary Based on Baudelaire’s Review of the Salon of 1846, p. 69, 2007, archival ink on canvas and
cprint in artist's frames
DESCRIPTION
This is a series of paintings and photographs that propose travel itineraries to see works of art referenced in the footnotes of Charles Baudelaire's review of the Salon of 1846.* The text "paintings" are paired with the photographs of the source material, single pages from the reviews. The collection explores how art is experienced and how our understanding of the world is always filtered though the history of representation. Focusing on the pivotal year 1846, just two years before revolution brought Louis Napoleon to power and marked the start of the events leading to the second empire in France, the series focuses on the end of the Romantic movement and the beginnings of Decadence which Baudelaire, as a dandy and Symbolist poet, was a leading figure.
* All works are derived from Jonathan Mayne’s Art in Paris 1845-1862, Salons and other Exhibitions, Reviewed by Charles Baudelaire, published 1965 by Phaidon Press Limited. The footnotes are a combination of Baudelaire’s and Jonathan Mayne’s.