{"id":2597,"date":"2024-09-25T10:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/bodies-emotions-material-culture\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2024-10-16T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:17:13","slug":"melbourne-exhibition-albrecht-durers-material-renaissance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/bodies-emotions-material-culture\/2024\/09\/25\/melbourne-exhibition-albrecht-durers-material-renaissance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Exhibition ‘Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s Material Renaissance’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr Jenny Spinks – University of Melbourne,\u00a0curator and project lead.<\/em><\/p>\n

Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s Material Renaissance \u2013 an exhibition of rare works sourced from the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria collections \u2013 is on display at Arts West Gallery, University of Melbourne, 22 July to 29 November 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n

The exhibition has been curated by Hansen Associate Professor Jenny Spinks, Dr Matthew Champion, Dr Shannon Gilmore-Kuziow, and Professor Charles Zika, as well as Curatorial Assistant Jenny Smith. Its research has been supported by the Australian Research Council grant DP210101623 <\/em><\/p>\n

Albrecht D\u00fcrer (1471-1528) shaped the German Renaissance with his unforgettable images. He travelled widely, but belonged to a vibrant network of artists and craftspeople in Nuremberg, a key trading city in the Holy Roman Empire and a centre for religious and intellectual life. Book and print production developed there from the late fifteenth century alongside constant innovation in the city\u2019s craft and manufacturing trades. D\u00fcrer first trained as a goldsmith. When he turned to making visual art, his metalworking skills helped him to push printmaking techniques \u2013 for engravings, etchings and woodcuts \u2013 to new levels of detail and inventiveness, dazzling his contemporaries.<\/p>\n

D\u00fcrer\u2019s interest in the natural world has long been acknowledged, but his fascination with manufactured and designed objects forms a vibrant and newer area of research. Depictions of contemporary cloth and clothing, featherwork, armour, precious metal vessels, measuring instruments, liturgical objects, hourglasses, and books \u2013 all objects made in Nuremberg \u2013 form part of the \u2018material Renaissance\u2019 that is a hallmark of his work and a feature of early print culture.<\/p>\n

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\"DurersMaterialWorld5\"The exhibition Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s Material Renaissance\u00a0<\/a><\/em>recently opened at the Arts West Gallery at the University of Melbourne. It invites you to peer into D\u00fcrer and his contemporaries\u2019 prints and books \u2013 objects in their own right \u2013 to explore how and why materiality mattered in early modern Europe. With over ninety items from the University\u2019s Special Collections and the State Library Victoria, exhibits include D\u00fcrer\u2019s\u00a0Melencolia I<\/em>\u00a0engraving, a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, and some of the most important books and prints of this period, including the famous 1493 Nuremberg\u00a0Chronicle<\/em>\u00a0and D\u00fcrer\u2019s own\u00a0Treatise on Measurement<\/em>. It has been co-curated by Jenny Spinks, Matthew Champion, Shannon Gilmore-Kuziow, and Charles Zika, working with curatorial assistant Jenny Smith. The opening event included a performance of music connected to D\u00fcrer\u2019s Nuremberg by the renowned lutentist Rosemary Hodgson<\/a>. The first month of the exhibition also saw a major workshop at the University of Melbourne<\/a>, which brought experts from across the globe to talk about emotions and materiality in D\u00fcrer\u2019s Nuremberg.<\/p>\n

The exhibition forms an integral part of the larger research project \u201cAlbrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s Material World \u2013 in Melbourne, Manchester and Nuremberg\u201d<\/a> which brings together researchers from the universities of Melbourne, Manchester and Heidelberg: Jenny Spinks, Matthew Champion, Charles Zika, Sasha Handley, Stefan Han\u00df, Ed Wouk, and Dagmar Eichberger. The Melbourne exhibition was developed in dialogue with the exhibition Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s Material World<\/a><\/em> at the Whitworth, University of Manchester (July 2023 \u2013 March 2024), curated by the Manchester team. The exhibitions, collectively, have aimed to refocus attention on the material world of Renaissance Nuremberg, and D\u00fcrer\u2019s place within a network of other makers. The process of doing this has been highly collaborative, forged multiple connections with collections and curators, and opened up this material to new audiences.<\/p>\n

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Images: https:\/\/arts.unimelb.edu.au\/about\/arts-west-gallery\/albrecht-durers-material-renaissance<\/p>\n

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