Carriage Barn Arts Center
Waveny Park, New Canaan, CT

Lecture: Andre Kertész: An Artist’s Life
Speaker: Robert Gurbo, Curator of the Elizabeth and André Kertész Foundation

Thursday, February 5, 2015
6:30 pm – Reception
7:00 pm – Lecture
Registration required: www.carriagebarn.org.
RSVP by February 4
$10 members; $15 non-members

NEW CANAAN, CT, January 21, 2015 — The Carriage Barn Arts Center, Editor’s Pick of Moffly Media’s Best of the Gold Coast, is hosting a lecture on the evening of Thursday, February 5th, entitled “André Kertész: An Artist’s Life.” The talk will be given by Robert Gurbo, the Curator of the André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation in New York, and the Juror of the 35th Annual Photography Show at the Carriage Barn Arts Center. The talk is sponsored by the New Canaan Community Foundation and the André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation.
A $10 fee for members; $15 for non-members includes a reception at 6:30pm, followed by the lecture/discussion at 7pm. To register for the lecture please go to www.carriagebarn.org/lecture-robert-gurbo/ or contact us at 203.972.1895.

André Kertész (1894-1985) is an undisputed master of photography. Widely seen as the father of photojournalism and street photography, he created much of the visual vocabulary of the medium that is still in use today. From his pioneering work in Hungary (1912 -1925), through his influential work during Paris’s artistic heyday (1925- 1936), right up to his final days in New York (1936 -1985), his photographs display an ability to infuse personal narrative and design into a documentary style that was uniquely his own. In a body of work that spans much of the 20th century, Kertész created deceptively simple images of everyday life that also reflected his own state of mind and questioned his very existence and relationship to the world around him.
Long-time curator Robert Gurbo worked with Kertész over the last 7 years his life and has spent the last 37 years combing through his archive. He has contributed numerous essays to catalogues and magazines; is the author of three books on Andre Kertész and co-author of Andre Kertész, the catalog that accompanied the 2005 National Gallery retrospective. In a talk that offers an intimate and personal look, Gurbo interweaves the artist’s work, self-portraits into the timeline of Kertész’s complicated life story. His talk offers his unique and personal perspective of the life and work of a man he claims to have been obsessed with since he was 16 years old.
Gurbo juried The 35th Annual Photography Show: History and Process, which includes the work of 75 contemporary photographers as well as a display of vintage cameras and early photographs, such as daguerreotypes and tintypes.

About The Carriage Barn Arts Center

The Carriage Barn Arts Center, located on 681 South Ave., New Canaan, Connecticut, is the home of the New Canaan Society of the Arts. The mission of the New Canaan Society for the Arts, Inc., is to promote the visual and performing arts and to enrich the community through exhibitions, education, and cultural experiences, and to operate the Carriage Barn Arts Center. It offers artists opportunities to exhibit their work in an exceptional gallery space in a unique nineteenth-century stone barn. Exhibits, lectures and educational workshops, concerts and other events are held in this adaptively reused historical building on the grounds of a former estate, now Waveny Park. In 2014 the Center received the Editor’s Pick of Moffly Media’s Best of the Gold Coast. More information about the Center and the current exhibit can be found at www.carriagebarn.org.