
Giacomettis at the Biennale 1962

images that haunt us



Ernst Ludwig Kirchner :: Expressionist dancer Nina Hard with the sculptures of Adam and Eve, Brazil, 1921. In Berlin she was an interpreter of Ausdruckstanz, a new free and expressive dance form. / source: ilsole24ore

Francis Frith :: The Statues on the Plain, Thebes, 1857. Mammoth plate albumen print. / src: Tate Gallery
Richard Goodwin ::
Chrysalis-Crisis, 2000-2001.
A sequence of five cropped, overlapping black and white photographs repeatedly depict one of the artist’s sculptures – a crude re-assemblage of car parts. Inside two of these constructions a nude female figure appears and then uncannily re-appears. The photographs are linked by means of a twisted sheet of cloth. / source: art gallery.nsw.gov.au

Hungarian-born American actress and singer Mártha Eggerth in Die blonde Carmen (1935) / source: IMDb

Louise Dahl-Wolfe :: Model with Brancusi Sculptures, Gelatin Silver Photograph, 1939 [behind model is Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space]/ source: thehighboy.com
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