Art Experiences: 2013 - 2017

© José Reis - Between “Our gods” by Liu Xiaoxian at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia. (2014)

© José Reis - With Lucian Freud’s “And the bridegroom” at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia. (2014)

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2013 - 2017
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José Reis

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I hope that Fonderia 20.9 will want to host my exhibition on Art Experiences.

I count myself among the artists who enjoy visiting and re-visiting art galleries and museums. As a photographer, I also like to observe how other visitors experience art.

I have focused on how gender and age affect our behaviour and reactions to the works we admire, and how they stimulate us to mull over our own lives.

My photographs are what I see through the camera’s viewfinder. I am submitting 20 images depicting my observations about thought provoking art works and their interaction with the people inhabiting the same camera frame.

I have made large pigment ink set prints of my work on Art Experiences. Out of 45 prints, I could select between 24 and 35 to exhibit at Fonderia 20.9.

Thank you for looking at my work on Art Experiences.

Between “Our gods” by Liu Xiaoxian at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia. (2014)

Encircled by Takashi Murakami's “Ensō: Atlantis” and “Ensō: Shangri-La” at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2015)

With Lucian Freud’s “And the bridegroom” at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia. (2014)

Probing the Museums of World Culture “Secret Love” touring exhibition show at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (2016)

With Giuseppe Bonito’s “The Femminiello” at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, U.S.A. (2017)

Standing by Arthur Hacker’s “Syrinx” and Francis Derwent Wood’s “Atalanta” at the Manchester Art Gallery in England, U.K. (2013)

With Lucian Freud’s “Two Men (1987)” at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. (2016)

Walking around John de Andrea’s hyper-real sculpture “Joan, circa 1990” at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California, U.S.A. (2013)

In the Niobe Room of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. (2014)

With Ken Currie’s “Tragic Form (Skate)” (2014) at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland. (2017)

Observing Orazio Riminaldi’s theatrical depiction of “The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia” (circa 1620-1625) at the Galleria Palatina of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy. (2014)

Dwarfed by Takashi Murakami’s “The 500 Arhats” at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan. (2015)

Looking at Nashunmenghe’s portrait of his wife, Elizabeth, next to David Jon Kassan’s portrait of Sam Goldofsky, survivor of Auschwitz, at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. (2016)

With Anne Appleby’s “The River 2013” at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. (2013)

Staring at Arthur Boyd’s 1969 portrait of the art collector, in the Joseph Brown Collection at the Ian Potter Centre - NGV Australia in Melbourne. (2014)

Couple at The Manchester Art Gallery in England, U.K. (2013)

Viewing Thomas Hart Benton’s “Persephone, 1938-1939” at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A. (2013)

Capturing Norman Rockwell’s “ROSIE THE RIVETER” at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, U.S.A. (2013)

Cellphone mirror at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, Portugal. (2017)

Inside Leandro Erlich’s “The Swimming Pool” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. (2015)

Art Experiences: 2013 - 2017 by José Reis

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