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IVOR ABRAHAMS:
MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION
THE ‘EDGAR ALLAN POE’ AND ‘EDMUND BURKE’
PRINT PORTFOLIOS
MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION
THE ‘EDGAR ALLAN POE’ AND ‘EDMUND BURKE’
PRINT PORTFOLIOS
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Royal Academy of Arts, TENNANT GALLERY, London - until 22 May
LONDON. A NEW exhibition in the Tennant Gallery brings together, for the first time, two pivotal print series by Royal Academician Ivor Abrahams (b.1935). E. A. Poe Tales and Poems (1976) is a portfolio of highly-wrought images of the exotic, the mysterious and the frightening, drawn from the world of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems and short stories. In ‘To Edmund Burke’ (1979) Abrahams went back to the 18th century roots of Poe’s vision, conjuring up from his own imagination a series of visual equivalents for the influential ideas propounded in Burke’s A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Created more than thirty years ago in collaboration with master printers Chris Betambeau and Alan Cox respectively, the Poe and Burke portfolios are superb examples of their kind from a period now recognised as a golden age of printmaking in Britain.
The exhibition will reveal how Poe, the great technician of unified ‘effect’ in poetry and prose, who defined art as ‘the reproduction of what the senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul’ – and Burke, the great taxonomist of the Sublime and Beautiful, who first associated the emotive power of art with anticipations of pleasure and pain – took Abrahams on a parallel journey of discovery in relation to his own preoccupations as an artist, a journey that illuminated not only the work he had already done but, more importantly, what he had yet to do.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, in 1935, Ivor Abrahams studied at St Martin’s School of Art under Anthony Caro from 1952 to 1953 and at Camberwell School of Art from 1954 to 1957. Since Abrahams held his first exhibition with Peter Blake at the Portal Gallery in 1961, he has achieved renown principally for his sculpture, but also for his prints. Both have been exhibited widely in solo and group shows in Britain, Europe and the US. A 1973 museum show at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany, established his international reputation; a major retrospective was held at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1984; and an exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute in 2008 focused on his early prints and sculpture of gardens. Over the last fifty years he has taught both sculpture and printmaking at Coventry College, Goldsmiths College, the Royal College, the Slade School and, currently, the Royal Academy Schools. Abrahams was elected a Royal Academician in the category of sculptor in 1991 and has held the post of Professor of Sculpture since 2007. He lives and works in London.
The exhibition will reveal how Poe, the great technician of unified ‘effect’ in poetry and prose, who defined art as ‘the reproduction of what the senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul’ – and Burke, the great taxonomist of the Sublime and Beautiful, who first associated the emotive power of art with anticipations of pleasure and pain – took Abrahams on a parallel journey of discovery in relation to his own preoccupations as an artist, a journey that illuminated not only the work he had already done but, more importantly, what he had yet to do.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, in 1935, Ivor Abrahams studied at St Martin’s School of Art under Anthony Caro from 1952 to 1953 and at Camberwell School of Art from 1954 to 1957. Since Abrahams held his first exhibition with Peter Blake at the Portal Gallery in 1961, he has achieved renown principally for his sculpture, but also for his prints. Both have been exhibited widely in solo and group shows in Britain, Europe and the US. A 1973 museum show at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany, established his international reputation; a major retrospective was held at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1984; and an exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute in 2008 focused on his early prints and sculpture of gardens. Over the last fifty years he has taught both sculpture and printmaking at Coventry College, Goldsmiths College, the Royal College, the Slade School and, currently, the Royal Academy Schools. Abrahams was elected a Royal Academician in the category of sculptor in 1991 and has held the post of Professor of Sculpture since 2007. He lives and works in London.
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May 2011
