IVAM Donations
an exhibition
22 July – 12 Sept 2010

I was honored to be invited to Valencia to attend the opening of the exhibition “IVAM Donations” , a multi-art exhibition consisting of 21 years of donations organized and curated by Consuelo Ciscar Casaban, director of IVAM with Tomas Llorens, and Boye Llorens. Spread over three galleries in the museum were paintings, sculptures, photographs and new media.

Donor artists, collectors and heirs were invited for the opening, a rare opportunity to meet and commune with a cross section of a multinational arts community. In addition to the exhibition, a massive catalog has been published by IVAM. The exhibition will run until 12 Sept 2010.

On a personal level the invitation to Valencia gave me the opportunity to make some new photographs to add to my Valencia collection started in 2000, the year of my IVAM retrospective. Also the chance to spend time with Josep Monzo who curated that show and members of the IVAM staff who were involved in the project. We share good memories. Senora Casaban was everpresent and could easily be tagged as “the hostess with the mostess.” That in addition to her conceptual skills in putting this show on the wall. Her largesse was very much appreciated by the invitees.

Every invited artist had at least one work displayed and for me that meant “Girl Twirling 1956” on the wall. For the catalog they chose “George & Elaine- last day in Valencia 2001.

I will be showing some of the new work in the coming weeks on this site. Unfortunately I can’t share the extraordinary food and wine of the excellent Valencia restaurants.

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On Tuesday May 18, 2010 at the Bonhams Photographs auction, they will offer two of my  Still Movies series :  Marilyn Monroe NYC 1954 [Lot 82]  & Nixon- Kennedy TV Debate 1960 [Lot 89].  Both works were photographed and printed by me and have been  exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, New York, Valencia, Madrid  and Tokyo.  The Nixon- Kennedy is in the collection of the  Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal  and private collectors, Lawrence K. Grossman, NYC and Jurg Shaub, Basle Switzerland. The Marilyns are in 8 museum collections. Both works are  included in the IVAM catalogue  George S. Zimbel 2000.

At the  same sale there is an extraordinary Edward Weston  “Pine, Lake Tenaya 1937″  Take a look and if you can afford to buy it you will  be very happy to have it on your wall.

george

These two prints, photographed  and printed by me will be offered at Yann Le Mouel auction in Paris on 3 May 2010.

1. ” Incident on Rue Roy, Montreal  1996 “  Lot # 133

2. “Black Boy  & Great Dane, Bronx  N.Y.  1964″   Lot # 197

Boys on 93rd St. NYC 1949 [Print by gsz 1949]

At AIPAD, the mega photo event of art photography being held in NYC   this week, a panel of  photographers who were at the Photo  League in the 1940′s will be held on Sunday at noon. They include Vivian Cherry, Sonia Handelman Meyer, Arthur Leipzig, Rebecca Lepkoff, Jerry Liebling, Marvin E. Newman, Erika Stone,  Ida Wyman, and George Zimbel.  Moderators will be Catherine Evans, Chief Curator, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio and Mason Klein, Curator of Fine Arts, The Jewish Museum, New York. It will be a unique chance to get perspective on the social documentary photographers whose  work was a blessing to those people who wanted their story told and  deemed to be a threat by the U.S. government.  You come and decide…george

George Zimbel’s Flatiron Building 2001 wil be offered at Yann Le Mouel auction in Paris on 21 November 2009. (#154).
This is the first time this prints has been exhibited and auctioned. Printed and signed by GSZ.

Jacqueline & John Kennedy, NYC 1960                     ©George S.Zimbel 1960/2009

Collections: Museum of Modern Art, NYC,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, International Center of Photography NYC, Musee National Des Beaux-Arts Du Quebec.

The Amazing Food Service has just opened Zimbel’s Cafe at 410 Adelaide Street West in Toronto . It  is a comfortable neighbourhood place serving great food in a comfortable environment. The installation of a wall of George Zimbel’s New York photographs by Stephen Bulger Gallery makes it a visual experience that reflects a way of photographic presentation that is fast disappearing…silver gelatin prints made by the photographer…in this case, Andrew Zimbel’ s  father. They are   hung salon syle.

The Kennedy photograph on the wall  is also included in the Museum of Modern Art travelling exhibition “Picturing New York” now on view at Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea (MART) a Trento eReverto in Italy. It will then travel to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

Vernissage July 4 between 2-5

This exhibition explores  the pre-post modern portrait photograph with an exciting collection  of  B&W  images introduced with an essay by Natasha  Christia, Kowasa

I  am happy to be represented by my photograph  Serious  Marilyn, NYC  1954

A Photographer’s Welcome – Catalunya Music Palace , Barcelona 2008

My exhibition, “Energy” opened at Kowasa Gallery in Barcelona on 9 April and will be on the wall until 31 May.

The day before the exhibit opened , Elaine and I were visiting the Catalunya Music Palace and were planning to have lunch in the courtyard. There were no chairs available and one of the other guests at a nearby table went inside and brought us chairs. I said gracias and gave him an invitation to the exhibit. Then I went to make a phone call.

When I came back this was my reception . The gentleman and his daughter came to the opening…she is a photography student.