Chatsworth’s Treasures

As part of the Grand Tour, Chatsworth lends nearly 70 items chosen by Pablo Bronstein from the Devonshire Collection to Nottingham Contemporary.

Pablo Bronstein, <i>Drapes in the William Kent Style</i>, 2010. Collection Alastair Cookson, London. Courtesy Herald St. London
The Grand Tour invites visitors to emulate the adventures of the 18th century gentleman, seeing the treasures of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire through the eyes of today’s artists.
As part of this project Chatsworth makes its largest loan to an exhibition in Britain in 30 years, lending nearly 70 items chosen by Pablo Bronstein from the Devonshire Collection to Nottingham Contemporary.
Pablo Bronstein, Large Building with Courtyard, 2005. Ash L'ange Collection. Courtesy Herald St. London
Pablo Bronstein, Large Building with Courtyard, 2005. Ash L'ange Collection. Courtesy Herald St. London

The items will be presented as part of “Pablo Bronstein and the Treasures of Chatsworth” at Nottingham Contemporary.

Concurrently, Chatsworth will present exhibitions by Pablo Bronstein in its Old Master Drawings Cabinet and New Gallery. The new Bronstein works’ are inspired by Chatsworth, the collection and the idea of the Grand Tour.

The objects Bronstein has selected from the Devonshire Collection will be shown in a new and different light across the four galleries of Nottingham Contemporary. Loans include a colossal Roman marble foot, Delft earthenware, 17th and 18 th century silverware, coronation chairs for William IV and Queen Adelaide, and works by Rembrandt and Frans Hals.
Foot Wearing a Sandal, Roman (Antique) Marble. BC 150 – BC 50. © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth.
Foot Wearing a Sandal, Roman (Antique) Marble. BC 150 – BC 50. © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth.
Bronstein will make new works to go on display at Nottingham Contemporary, including an epic panorama drawing that will wrap around the four walls of the first gallery, inspired by Baroque visions of the Via Appia of Roman antiquity. An ornate temple-like structure, designed by Bronstein, will house a mirrored ‘treasury’ of grand items of silverware. New, elaborate, computer-drawn wallpaper, inspired by the architecture of Chatsworth, will line the walls of an entire gallery.
At Chatsworth, Bronstein will create a new, large drawing for the Old Master Drawings Cabinet, which will respond to the nature of the space and a selection of architectural drawings from the collection presented on this occasion. Chatsworth will also present a rare survey of Bronstein’s acclaimed drawings in the New Gallery. His witty, technically accomplished drawings are inspired by wide-ranging historic architectural and interior design sources. The drawings playfully reimagine these sources, probing the connections between aesthetic form and social display. Blurring the divide between fantasy and authenticity, past and present, many of the drawings are presented in actual antique frames from periods the drawings emulate.

4 July –20 September 2015

Pablo Bronstein and the Treasures of Chatsworth

Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire County

Pablo Bronstein at Chatsworth
Chatsworth
Bakewell, Derbyshire

part of The Grand Tour

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