The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, said: “We’re delighted to be announcing this celebratory programme for Chatsworth. The exhibition in the house is a marker in time – a record of our acquisitions that we want to share with others – while the sculptures in the park continue the great tradition of the estate as a backdrop for contemporary works. We very much hope that visitors find inspiration here in this special place.”
The Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth-
Radical Horizons: ‘The Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth’ is a large-scale exhibition in the publicly accessible 1000 acre park surrounding the house, which sees 12 monumental sculptures from Burning Man, going on display in the UK for the first time. Available from 9th April to 1st October.
Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth is an ambitious sculpture exhibition designed to celebrate a shared culture of making art and collaboration.
Chatsworth and Burning Man were introduced by Sotheby’s, who saw a synergy between the two organizations in their commitments to community and creativity.
The Burning Man Project produces the annual Burning Man event in Black Rock City, working all year-round to extend and facilitate the culture that has grown from the event into the world. Burning Man is a unique event that usually takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, USA, and Chatsworth has worked with artists and the Burning Man team to bring its distinctive culture of possibility and creativity to the Derbyshire landscape.
© Margaret Long and Orion Fredericks © Photography by LadyBee 2016
It features eight existing sculptures and four works built on site. Including three new participatory sculptures that will be created, with the help of local community groups and visitors in the parkland, over the course of the year. Mirroring the build process at Burning Man that sees several teams of volunteers gathering to create new artworks in the desert.
Free to access and enjoyable for all, the exhibition benefits from a dedicated programme working with the engagement from communities of people, who generally find Chatsworth difficult to access, offering activities designed to form new connections with people and leave a legacy of creative possibility.
© Adrian Landon
Kim Cook, Director of Creative Initiatives at Burning Man, said: “We’ve come to understand Chatsworth as a place to foster innovation, creativity, thoughtfulness and thinkers since its early days, something that is also central to our work and ethos at Burning Man. Our hope is that the art in the landscape will provoke joy, new ways of viewing, and be an invitation to make up your own story about meaning as you explore the beautiful expanse of Chatsworth.”
© Christina Sporrong and Charles Gadeken © Photography by Tex Allen
Living With Art We Love-
While Radical Horizons takes place in Chatsworth’s parkland, a second exhibition Living With Art We love: An exhibition presented by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire will be taking place inside the house from 26 March to 9 October.
It features favourite items from their acquisitions over the past 40 years, few of which have been on public display, including paintings, sculpture and furniture, and including some works from the historic collection with a section dedicated to Lucian Freud in that artist’s centenary.
The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire are long standing supporters of artists and creatives alike and throughout their lives they have collected works of art. This exhibition brings the artworks that they love and live with into the public areas of the house to share with visitors for the first time.
Specially selected objects include – paintings, sculpture, furniture, ceramics and textiles. Contemporary artworks by Michael Craig Martin, Edmund de Waal, Natasha Daintry and Felicity Aylieff – artists actively collected and commissioned by the Duke and Duchess – are displayed alongside historic art from the Devonshire Collections rarely seen in public, including major works by Poussin, Rembrandt and Boltraffio.
Nicolas Poussin
The Arcadian Shepherds, c. 1627 – 1629
Oil on lined canvas
© The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth. Reproduced
by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Portrait of a young man, probably the poet Girolamo
Casio (1464-1533)
Oil on wood panel
© The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth. Reproduced
by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Truste
Rembrandt van Rijn
A man in oriental costume (or King Uzziah stricken by
leprosy) c. 1639
Oil on wood panel
© The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth. Reproduced
by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trust
Michael Leonard Portrait of Amanda Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, when Marchioness of Hartington, with a budgerigar ‘George’, 1981 Acrylic on canvas © Michael Leonard
Living With Art We Love includes a special section on ‘Freud at Chatsworth’ dedicated to Lucian Freud, which sees all the artist’s paintings, drawings and prints in the Devonshire Collections on display together in his centenary year.
These works span the entirety of Freud’s career and include the major themes of his oeuvre: portraits of his mother, partners, friends, family, and animals.
Lucian Freud Woman in a white Shirt (Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1920-2014)), 1958-1961 Oil on canvas The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2022. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees / Bridgeman Images
Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, began collecting and commissioning work by Freud after the two men became friends in the late 1940s. Freud spent significant time at Chatsworth and painted six members of the 11th Duke’s family in total. Over a period of 20 years.
Alexandra Hodby, Senior Curator of Programme at Chatsworth, said: “It is wonderful to bring together this group of works, which represent the span of Freud’s life, and celebrate his relationship to the Cavendish family over many years. We’re grateful to private lenders, who have allowed us to bring back two paintings which were once part of the Devonshire Collections, and reunite them with the works at Chatsworth.”
Find out more information here at: www.chatsworth.org/events/burning-man
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Chatsworth is only 10 miles from Chesterfield train station, 14 miles from Sheffield train station, 16 miles from the M1, and is well served by regional bus services. More information available at: www.chatsworth.org
