Gaku Kondo, MATISSE'S "IN-PROGRESS" PHOTOGRAPHY, 1931–1945 – Matisse Symposium
Channel: Barnes Foundation
Date: 21/11/2016

This lecture examines Matisse's photographic documentation of his studio practice, which assumed particular significance during the 1930s-40s, a period when a rift emerged in his art. Photography, Kondo argues, was instrumental in both the resolution of this crisis and the artist's eventual transition to cut-outs.

Gaku Kondo is a Tokyo-based independent scholar. His research, which focuses on Matisse's engagement with photography, has been published in Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne (Spring 2012), as well as Dictionnaire Matisse (ed. Claudine Grammont, 2017).

Inspired by the Foundation’s catalogue Matisse in the Barnes Foundation (http://bit.ly/MatisseBarnes), edited by Yve-Alain Bois and published in December 2015, this symposium brings together leading international scholars to examine Matisse in the context of the history of modernism.