Frances Guerin

Books

The Truth is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Art

This book is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings

Articles

Fritz Lang’s cinema of interruption and the narrative of modernity

This article offers a reading of Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)

Writing

The Dinner Table

Dinner at 29 Alpha Road was a formal occasion.

speaking

Artist Marte Bjørndal, with Researchers

Artist Marte Bjørndal, with Researchers Peter Robbins, Frances Guerin, Ragnhild Bjørnebekk.

BLOG

Rudolf Stingel, Vineyard Paintings

Rudolf Stingel’s Vineyard Paintings in their inaugural exhibition in London are exquisite. In ...

Do Ho Suh, Walk the House @ Tate Modern

Do Ho Suh, My Homes, 2010 As someone who has lived in different countries, I was fully immersed in a...

Light Art @ Tate Modern

Anthony McCall, Face to Face, 2013 There are some amazing light works currently on display at Tate M...

Shades of Grey @ Skarstedt, London

Gerhard Richter, Untitled, 1970 CR255-1 On a hot London afternoon, it was a pleasure to wander into...

NEWS

Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe

Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe is finally out!

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In the Grey

In the Grey is a book of essays threaded together by my experience of navigating the mercurial behaviour of an abusive boss.

Cinematic Portrait Painting: (Not) About Gerhard Richter

Cinematic Portrait Painting: By Gerhard Richter examines Gerhard Richter’s portraits through the lens of the cinematic.

PAINTING BY OTHER MEANS A one-day international symposium with the Gerhard Richter Archive on 17 July 2023. 10am @ Albertinum, Dresden

More information can be found here

The day’s events will be livestreamed on YouTube

Cinematic Painting: Time and Motion in Gerhard Richter’s Portraits Montag, 15.05.2023, 18:00 Uhr August-Bebel-Straße 20, Hörsaal E08 (ABS/E08/H) Fellowship @ TU Dresden

In Spring and Summer 2023, I will be in residence at the Technical University, Dresden to complete my monograph on Gerhard Richter’s portraits. I will also participate in a number of events designed to engage students, scholars and members of the Dresden community.

Hitler: The Lost Tapes, Channel 4

See me appear as an expert witness in this Channel 4 TV series on the films and photographs of Hitler’s inner circle – such as Eva Braun and Heinrich Hoffmann

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/hitler-the-lost-tapes

Pandemic Paris

I spent the year of confinements, curfews, and Coronamania writing a series of essays.

You can read more here