David Lynch: Naming

-Beautiful "autobiography" of David Lynch imagination.

For the legendary director, photographer and multimedia artist David Lynch (born 1946), the complex relationship between objects and their names has been a point of departure in his work since The Alphabet, his second short film made in 1968 during his student years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Based on a dream his first wife had about her niece reciting the alphabet, Lynch has described this early work as "a little nightmare about the fear connected with learning." Later, between 1987–88, Lynch developed the "Ricky Board" drawing series, in which the same object is repeated across four rows of five columns, with each one given a different name. "You will be amazed at the different personalities that emerge depending on the names you give," Lynch observes. This book traces how Lynch uses "naming" in film, photography, drawings, watercolors, painting and prints from 1968 to the present.

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The Retrospective for Willi Geiger at the Hot Dog Stand

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Nusra Latif Qureshi was born in Pakistan in 1973 and originally trained in the traditional art of Mughal miniature (musaviri) paintings. Exquisitely detailed and executed with technical perfection, Qureshi’s works are contemporary responses to this ancient craft. She layers appropriated imagery from colonial photography, patterns from Middle Eastern textiles or the Arts and Crafts movement, silhouettes and botanical paintings; these elements combine to comprise the backgrounds and foregrounds of isolated female figures.

Moving to Australia for postgraduate study in 2001, Qureshi’s position as a migrant woman in Australian society has added new layers to her explorations as she continues to push the conventional boundaries of her art form.

She was included in the 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial in 2006, and has exhibited widely in the UK, the United States, Australia and Pakistan. Qureshi lives in Melbourne.

Karl Hubbuch (1891-1979)

      Karl Hubbuch is probably most closely identified with the style that came to be known as Neue Sachlichket (New Objectivity). Less overtly political than colleagues such as George Grosz and Otto Dix, he perfected a neo-realist style that critiqued society through its blunt honesty. Hubbuch was born in Karlsruhe and attended the Academy there between 1908 and 1912. He subsequently studied at the School of the Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin under Emil Orlik at the same time that George Grosz was a student there. He volunteered for military service in 1914, and served as an artilleryman until 1918. In 1922, he studied again with Orlik, this time at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. In 1924, Hubbuch began teaching lithography at the Karlsruhe Academy, which appointed him full professor in 1928. During the 1920s and early ‘30s, his work was included in numerous exhibitions, among them the 1925 Neue Sachlichkeit show in Mannheim and a group show, with Dix and Grosz, at the Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf in Berlin. Between 1935 and 1945, Hubbuch was forbidden to practice as an artist and earned occasional money by painting ceramics and cuckoo clocks. After the war, his appointment as professor at the Karlsruhe Academy was renewed, and he began to exhibit his work once again. In 1957, he retired from his professorship, but continued to be active, participating in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe in the 1960s and ‘70s. Hubbuch died in Karlsruhe.

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Jonas Mekas