Gscene Magazine - May 2020 | WWW.GSCENE.COM

Enzo Marra

ART MATTERS

This month, with our shared inside time experience which has closed down the live art experience, I’ll concentrate on the virtual experience of the art space, presented by galleries both traditional and modern. The action of viewing artworks even at that distance hopefully being able to invigorate, educate or challenge you from your lived space.

COURTAULD GALLERY

www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/about/3d-gallery-virtual-tour

Beginning with the Courtauld Gallery, the virtual tour uses a new photographic technique to show the gallery and the works exhibited in exceptional close-up quality. You can roam through each room as it was before it temporarily closed in September 2018, and zoom in to look closely at masterpieces from their collection including Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Édouard Manet’s A Bar at The Folies-Bergère, the applied individual brush strokes and the texture of the paint made visible as if you were peering in at them. A BAR AT THE FOLIES-BERGÈRE

NATIONAL GALLERY

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-tours

Also opening it’s doors in a virtual manner, the National Gallery offers a tour where you can enjoy panoramic views of the gallery in collaboration with Google Street View, allowing you the opportunity to immerse yourself in Renaissance masterpieces from Northern Italy, the Netherlands and Germany, including works by Titian, Veronese and Holbein. They also provide a virtual reality tour of the Sainsbury Wing, the home to their world-class collection of Early Renaissance paintings, with over 270 paintings to browse within a 360 degree tour on your standard electronic devices. In addition there’s a virtual tour of 18 rooms originally instigated in 2011, which incorporates the experience of the gallery rooms and 300 paintings from their collection. The tour links directly to painting pages, which in turn offers the chance to learn more about each of the paintings.

HAUSER & WIRTH GALLERY

www.vip-hauserwirth.com

Courtesy of the Hauser & Wirth Gallery, there’s a selection of works by Louise Bourgeois who made drawing a daily ritual across her seven decade-long career. Something a bit rawer and more personal, this will be Saville Row-based Hauser & Wirth’s first online exhibition - a celebration of the French-American artists’ pieces in ink, watercolour and pencil. The gallery is also generously launching Dispatches, a new series of videos, events and features to keep connected with it’s artists in creative isolation.

ALEPH CONTEMPORARY

www.alephcontemporary.com/exhibitions/13-enzo-marradeluge/video/

Finally I would like to finish on a solo show I had at the Aleph Contemporary in their viewing room. Deluge (Mar 1-15), which included works on paper and on canvas among the shown selection. The works spanning a number of years, showing the development and alteration that has occurred within my visual practise, in subject matter and in painterly approach. ENZO MARRA WELL HUNG