Brontë exhibitions

Several exhibitions across Europe feature Brontë connections:

In London:

Francis Kyle Gallery
9 Maddox Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 2QE

John Fisher: Writers' Rooms III
18 March - 17 April 2008

For his third series of Writers' Rooms, John Fisher has been working over the past two years in four countries, refining his response to the character of houses which once were homes of some of his favourite writers and composers. Often drawn first to the working desks, studies or libraries of his subjects, he was also attracted sometimes by other areas such as bedrooms, which may have nurtured dreams and musings, as well as drawing- and dining-rooms where echoes may still be caught of conversation among family and friends. (...)
For the last groups of works in the exhibition, painted at the Brontë family parsonage at Haworth in West Yorkshire, Fisher has chosen to digress, untypically, from his focus on interiors subjects only, as the surrounding countryside seemed to play so large a part in the personality of the three writing sisters (Anne sometimes took her stool on to the moor to write in the open), while every room in the isolated parsonage seemed to vibrate still with their intense productivity.

In Paris:

Patti Smith, Land 250
March 28 › June 22, 2008

The Fondation Cartier is hosting Land 250, a major solo exhibition of the visual work of American artist and performer Patti Smith. Drawn from pieces created between 1967 and 2007, it strives to provide an insight into her lyrical, spiritual and poetic universe. Her expressive voice serves to magnify the installations created specifically for the exhibition: a synthesis of photographs, drawings and films.

From Tomorrow Never Knows (our translation):

The small photographs reveal Patti Smith fascinated by statues in cemeteries, heavy skies and windswept fields, appearing almost as dialogues full of forces and immaterial presences. From Arthur Rimbaud to Albert Camus, Walt Whitman or Charlotte Brontë, the exhibition abounds in literary references, perhaps the real passion of a woman who admits to having arrived in the rock scene almost by chance and to whom her mother, from a humble background, used to read William Blake's Songs of Innocence when she was eight years old.

It's not the first time that Patti Smith reveals herself as a Brontëite.

And in Albacete, Spain:

Mujeres escritoras: Una ventana abierta a la comprensión del mundo
Hall del Edificio Benjamín Palencia
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Albacete

The hall of the Benjamín Palencia building hosts the exhibition "Mujeres escritoras: Una ventana abierta a la comprensión del mundo", which includes the contributions of different women who through their writings in their different fields: poetry, pedagogy, sociology, health, chemistry, etc., they have contributed to the universal knowledge. (...)
[Including] the Brontë sisters, the authors of Wuthering Heights (sic).

Categories: Art-Exhibitions