MuseoMag: MuseoMag 2020_01

MuseoMag 2020_01

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Title:: Focus on the female body: "Brushed by light": An upcoming exhibition by Carla van de Puttelaar at the MNHA

8 museomag 01 ‘ 2020 FOCUS ON THE FEMALE BODY “BRUSHED BY LIGHT”: AN UPCOMING EXHIBITION BY CARLA VAN DE PUTTELAAR AT THE MNHA From 20 March to 30 August 2020 the Musée national d’histoire et d’art will show the exhibition Carla van de Puttelaar, Brushed by Light, an overview of the work of the Dutch photographer from the last twenty years. The name Carla van de Puttelaar is primarily asso- ciated with photographs of female nudes. However, to merely identify her with nude photographs would not do justice to her other work, especially since it has become much more diverse in recent years. In all her work, the interaction of light and skin occupies the cen- tral focus. Here, skin can be the skin of a female model but also the bark of a tree trunk, a flower petal or the fabric of a piece of clothing or drapery. AWARDED IN THE FRAME OF THE PRIX DE ROME PHOTOGRAPHY Carla van de Puttelaar was born in 1967 in Zaandam and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amster- dam from 1991 to 1996. In the beginning of her studies, she decided to specialize in photography. Her interest in people was already clearly visible with her portraits and her focus on the female body during her Rietveld years. An important moment in her early career was her admission to the final round of the 2002 Prix de Rome Photography competition, being awarded a Basic Prize. The results of her efforts for the Prix de Rome and much of her other early work became visible in her first solo book, which was published in 2004 and simply bears the title Carla van de Puttelaar. This book was fol- lowed by several other solo books, that gave a survey of recent work. In Adornments, published in 2017, with photographs from the years 2011-2017, she extended her field of activity and concentrated on female skin, flowers and trees. Among the highlights of her work in those years are the photographs she made for a project of the Rem- brandthuis Museum in Amsterdam in connection with an exhibition of the drawings and prints of nude models © carla van de puttelaar Two photographs by Carla van de Puttelaar from the Rembrandt Series, 2015/2016: n°12 (above) and n°4 (opposite)

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