MICHAEL KENNA FRANCE
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Michael Kenna, Eighteen Hedges, Versailles, France, 1998
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MIC HAEL KENNA FRANCE
M AY 16 - A U G U S T 1, 2 015
MICHAEL KENNA FRANCE
May 16 – August 1, 2015 This will be PDNB Gallery’s fourth solo exhibition for the renowned landscape photographer, Michael Kenna (b. 1953, Widnes, Lancashire, England). This very special show will highlight photographs of France taken in the past several decades. The exhibition follows the release of his latest book, FRANCE, by Nazraeli Press, and his exhibition in Paris at Le Musée Carnavalet. Kenna has photographed all over the world, but perhaps the work he did in France in the 1980’s put him on the map. His long exposures of Versailles, taken at dawn or dusk, produced memorable images. His sublime photographs were first published in his most recognized book, Le Nôtre’s Gardens. The locations included Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Fontainebleau, Chantilly, Les Tuileries, Saint-Cloud, Sceaux, and Marly. Now, when we see the perfectly manicured trees of Versailles, we think of Michael Kenna’s photographs. Later, when Kenna photographed Japan (exhibited at PDNB in 2003), his meditative skill of photographing took off to a new level. But France was where this artist developed the eye to see the divine beauty of nature. This exhibition will include some early works from the 1980’s, and some newer images that have not been exhibited. Locations will include Le Desert de Retz, Les Tuileries, Falaise d’Aval, Mont Saint Michel and the Eiffel Tower. Michael Kenna’s photographs are housed in over 100 museum and institution collections throughout the world, including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, George Eastman House, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Musée national d’Art modern, Paris, San Francisco Modern Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has received several awards including an Honorary Master of Arts from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, and the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Ministry of Culture, France.
Tuileries Gardens, Study 4, Paris, France,1987
Petit Canal, Versailles, France, 1999
Eiffel Tower, Study 11, Paris, France, 2013
Hercules, Vaux-le-Vicomte, France,1998
French Canal, Study 2, TYBW, Loir-et-Cher, France, 1993
Pont des Arts, Study 3, Paris, France, 1987
Windy Trees, Les Tuileries, Paris, France, 1984
Seven Pollarded Trees, Capaize, Bourgogne, France, 1998
Homage to HCB, Study 2, Bretagne, France, 1993
Falaise d’Aval dans la Brume, Etretat, France, 2001
Jardin des Plantes, Study 1, Paris, France, 1988
Le Desert de Retz, Study 37, France, 1988
Tree, Pont Royal and Louvre, Paris, 2013
Falaise d’Aval au Crepuscule, Etretat, France, 2000
Quai Amiral Infernet, Nice, France, 1997
Atget’s Trees, Study 3, Parc St. Could,Paris, France, 1996
Terrace, Saint-Cloud, France, 1999
Chariot of Apollo, Study 4, Versailles, France, 2009
Contemplation, Parc St. Cloud, Paris, France, 1996
Floating Abbey, Mont St. Michel, France, 2000
Dawn Mist, Mont St. Michel, France, 1994
Eighteen Hedges, Versailles, France, 1998
ADDITIONAL WORKS
Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, USA, 2006
Flatiron Building, Study 2, New York, NY, 2003
Chrysler Building, Study 2, New York, NY, USA, 2006
Homage to Kertez, Gramercy Park, NY, 2003
Chrysler Building, Study 3, New York, NY, 2006
Two Winter Stalks, Biei, Hokkaido, Japan, 2013
Karamatsu Forest, Biei, Hokkaido, Japan, 2013
Kussharo Lake Tree, Study 15, Kotan, Hokkaido, Japan, 2009
Seaweed Farms, Study 9, Xiapu, Fujian, China, 2010
Yuanyang, Study 1, Yunnan, China, 2013
Sandjeika Beach, Odessa, Ukraine, 2013
Nine Concretions, Koekohe Beach, Moeraki, New Zealand, 2013
Thirty Six Birds, Isle of Skye, Scotland, 2005
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