Gender and art

Le destin chaotique de Kati Horna est indissociable des secousses qui ébranlent l’Europe des années 1920 et 1930, en proie aux guerres et à la montée des fascismes. Témoin des troubles de l’histoire, elle délivre un message humaniste en intégrant à son style photographique les collages, photomontages et surimpressions chers au courant surréaliste.

Kati Horna
03 juin-21 sept. 2014
Paris 8e. Jeu de paume

http://www.jeudepaume.org/

"Le Jeu de Paume présente, en collaboration avec le Museo Amparo de Puebla (Mexique), la première exposition rétrospective de la photographe de Kati Horna (Szilasbalhasi, Hongrie, 1912 — Mexico, 2000), retraçant plus de six décennies de production en Hongrie, en France, en Espagne et au Mexique.

Photographe mexicaine d'adoption, Kati Horna fait partie de la génération de photographes hongrois (d'André Kertész à Robert Capa en passant par Eva Besnyö, László Moholy-Nagy, Nicolás Muller, Brassaï, Rogi André, Ergy Landau, Martin Munkácsi et bien d'autres) contraints de quitter leur pays en raison des conflits et de l'instabilité sociale des années 1930.

Cosmopolite et avant-gardiste, Kati Horna est surtout connue pour son album sur la guerre civile espagnole, réalisé à la demande du gouvernement républicain espagnol entre 1937 et 1939. Son travail se caractérise à la fois par sa proximité avec les principes de la photographie surréaliste, ainsi que par sa manière très personnelle d'aborder le photoreportage."

Kati Horna

03 juin-21 sept. 2014

Paris 8e. Jeu de paume

http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?page=article&idArt=2010&lieu=1&idImg=2080

"To present the photographic oeuvre of Kati Horna (Budapest, 1912–Mexico City, 2000) is to reexamine a vast body of work made over more than sixty years by an artist who crossed over multiple territories, which are reflected in her varied visual practice.

The cosmopolitanism that defines Horna’s work is inseparable from the turbulent times in which she lived: the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the outbreak of World War I were events that marked her childhood and that forced her to leave Budapest, and then Berlin, in order to settle in Paris; the Spanish Civil War led her to travel around Republican Spain; World War II signaled her definitive exile to Mexico, her adopted country."

Kati Horna

Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, through April 28, 2014

http://www.museoamparo.com/en/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/kati-horna/

Kati Horna. Los Paraguas, mitin de la CNT [Umbrellas, Meeting of the CNT], Spanish Civil War, Barcelona, 1937.

PARIS.- In collaboration with the Museo Amparo in Puebla (Mexico), the Jeu de Paume is presenting the first retrospective of the work of photographer Kati Horna (Szilasbalhási, Hungary, 1912–Mexico, 2000), showing more than six decades of work in Hungary, France, Spain and Mexico. Kati Horna, a photographer whose adopted homeland was Mexico, was one of a generation of Hungarian photographers (including André Kertész, Robert Capa, Eva Besnyö, László Moholy-Nagy, Nicolás Muller, Brassaï, Rogi André, Ergy Landau and Martin Munkácsi) forced to flee their country due to the conflicts and social upheaval of the 1930s.

Cosmopolitan and avant-garde, Kati Horna was known above all for her images of the Spanish Civil War, produced at the request of the Spanish Republican government between 1937 and 1939. Her work is characterised by both its adherence to the principles of Surrealist photography and her very personal approach to photographic reportage.

Kati Horna

through 21 September 2014

Jeu de Paume, Paris

http://www.jeudepaume.org/index.php?page=article&idArt=2010

"Commemorating the centennial of the birth of Kati Horna (Szilas-Balhas, Hungary 1912- Mexico City 2000), celebrated in 2012, Museo Amparo in collaboration with the Jeu de Paume in Paris, present the homonymous exhibition Kati Horna, with the intention of generating international recognition of this versatile photographer of a committed humanism, highlighting her unique creativity and contributions made to the development of photojournalism and photo-essay.

The exhibition Kati Horna seeks to present an extensive account of her work, permitting a revaluation and recovery of this artist who began delving in photography at the age of 21 in Hungary, surrounded by the rise of the European avant-garde of the 1930s, showing for this purpose her vast production spanning over six decades in Europe and in Mexico, her adopted country."

Kati Horna

Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, until April 28, 2014

Jeu de Paume, Paris, June 3 - September 21, 2014