PRINTED SETS, SERIES WILL OPEN AT HAMMER MUSEUM MARCH 23

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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — “And Then Again...Printed Sets and Series, 1500–2007” will be on view in the Hammer Museum from March 23 to July 13.

This exhibition focuses on the history of sequential imagery in prints from the early European Renaissance to contemporary artistic practice. Drawn primarily from the extensive collection of the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, the exhibition will begin with such traditional Renaissance and Baroque narrative subjects as the Four Seasons, The Labors of Hercules, the Passion of Christ and the Apocalypse.

In the Seventeenth Century, Dutch artists adopted the series format for the depiction of landscape, focusing for the first time on local topographical views. Later in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, print series depicted the remote or exotic locales favored by European travelers.

The series format remains viable today and is represented in this exhibition with prints by contemporary artists such as Mona Hatoum, John Baldessari, Cathy Opie, Barry McGee and Richard Tuttle.

Cynthia Burlingham, director of the Grunwald Center and deputy director of collections at the Hammer Museum, organized the exhibition.

Hammer Museum is at 10899 Wilshire Boulevard. For information, 310-443-7000 or www.hammer.ucla.edu.