A variety of works from the Atelier Countrepoint Exhibit featuring colored Engravings from Paris will be on display at Nebraska Wesleyan University when the Elder Gallery exhibit Art Show opens Fri., Sept. 29. The show will run through Oct. 22. Oct. 1, from 2 to 4 p.m. Professor Pedro Angel of Narino University in Colombia will present a public lecture on the engraving process and the history of the Atelier during the opening. Elder Gallery is located in the Rogers Center for Fine Arts, 50th Street and Huntington Avenue.
All exhibits are free and open to the public.
The Atelier Countrepoint was originally the Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter. Hayter revived the workshop conception of the artist and founded the famous Atelier 17 in Paris. Here, since 1927, artists from all parts of the world, including such greats as Picasso, Braque, Miro, Dali, Matta, Max Ernst, Chagall, Masson, Kandinsky, and Rauschenberg have worked together, using the equipment and techniques in Atelier 17. Stanley William Hayter was born in 1901 in London and began his career as a student of science. After graduating Kings College, London as a chemist and geologist, he worked for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in the Persian Gulf between the years 1922 and 1925.