DURAND
IDEA FINE ART
EXHIBITIONS
A series of online exhibitions
DANIEL IN THE LIONS' DEN
DANIEL IN THE LIONS' DEN is an unique collaboration between Canadian artist, André Durand, a teenage A-level student, Daniel Weston, Demelza Hospice Care for Children (www.demelza.org) and the Zoological Society of London. In the almost life-size picture, the artist has portrayed the prophet whose name ‘Daniel’ means ‘God is my judge’, as a youthful man of God. Daniel lived out his commitment in very troubled times like our own.
The picture was unveiled at the London Zoo on November 29 to benefit Demelza Hospice Care for Children.
Winter 2007
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VOTIVE OFFERING: TO CELEBRATE ITS' TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
VOTIVE OFFERING was an ex voto painting inspired by Sunnye Sherman and dedicated to her memory. It commemorated the visit of Diana, Princess of Wales, to the Broderip Ward of the Middlesex Hospital on 9 April 1987.
Idea Fine Art, in association with Crusaid, the AIDS charity for whom the picture was originally painted to benefit, mark the twentieth anniversary with this exhibition.
Autumn 2007
LUCY O'DONNELL AT THE SEVEN SISTERS
Durand's portrait of Lucy O'Donnell is here understood within the tradition of English Portraiture.
In Durand's life-size portrait Mrs O'Donnell's easy self-confidence and grace recalls the great tradition of English portraiture from Van Dyck to Lawrence.
Summer 2007
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST, unveiled for the friends of St. John’s Chapel in Chichester, Sussex, England, by Reverend Derek Welsman on the 21st of October 2006, depicts the chapel’s patron saint, astride the neck of a resplendent, golden eagle soaring above the spire of Chichester Cathedral.
Autumn 2006
PROMETHEUS
Stealing Fire
Images of Prometheus from 550 BC to 1997, featuring Durand's Stealing Fire with the artist's original photographs of the Olympic diver Greg Louganis, on whom Durand modelled his Prometheus.
Autumn 2005
JULIUS II - JOHN PAUL II
Papal Portraits Raphael - Durand
A lavishly illustrated survey of the masterpieces of papal portraiture, featuring pictures by Rapahel, Titian, Velázquez, David, and Durand, with commentary by Cecil Gould, Jonathan Jones, Harold E. Wethey, Marion Kaninski, André Durand, and Martin Kettle. The exhibition introduces the challenges presented to artists from Raphael to Durand by the conventions of pontifical portraiture.
Summer 2005
ART'S CONTENT - ELITISM - THE PUBLIC
Durand's Et in Arcadia Ego
During André Durand's Summer 2000 residency at Kingston University's Stanley Picker Gallery, the artist and his colleague Armando Bayraktari set out to prove that elitism is a recent attitude, reflecting current art theory and criticism through the populist media. The artists suggest that the public responds spontaneously to the work of an artist painting contemporary subject matter - art’s content - and that the response would be positive and enthusiastic.
Spring 2005
GIORDANO BRUNO BURNING
To think is to speculate with images.
Giordano Bruno, one of the most important Copernican thinkers of the European Renaissance, proposed the idea of a ‘heroic philosophy’. He saw philosophy as an active and passionate quest for truth. He left behind him a number of esoteric and philosphical works including The Ash Wednesday Supper. The exhibition features Durand's Giordano Bruno Burning, the artist's only picture of an historical event.
Winter 2005
ANNUNCIATION
And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
Durand's Annunciation, St Andrew, Didling, West Sussex, 2004, in the context of Leonardo da Vinci's The Annunciation, 1472-75.
Christmas 2004