Monica Petzal
{{Short description|British artist}}
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Monica Petzal (born 22 June 1953) is a British artist, known primarily as a painter and printmaker.
Petzal was born in London, the daughter of German Jewish refugees.{{cite journal |last1=Bohm-Duchen |first1=Monica |title=Chasing Shadows: The Uses of Photography in the Work of Second-Generation Visual Artists in the UK |journal=European Judaism |date=1 March 2023 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=22-39 |doi=10.3167/ej.2023.560103 |url=https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/european-judaism/56/1/ej560103.xml |access-date=28 May 2023|url-access=subscription }}
Petzal's recent work concerns her family's displacement from Germany under the Nazi regime and the broader themes of dissent, displacement and destruction in the twentieth century and beyond.{{cite web |title=Making art to ease the pain in a city of sorrow |url=https://www.thejc.com/lifestyle/features/making-art-to-ease-the-pain-in-a-city-of-sorrow-1.43528 |website=TheJewish Chronicle |access-date=28 May 2023}}
Career
In the 1980s, Petzal worked as a journalist and arts critic for Time Out and Art Monthly.{{cite news |title=Contributors |work=Art Monthly |issue=27 |publisher=Britannia Arts Publications Ltd. |date=1 June 1979}}{{cite news |last1=Petzal |first1=Monica |title=London Round-up |work=Art Monthly |issue=87 |publisher=Britannia Arts Publications Ltd. |date=1 June 1985}}{{cite web |title=Amikam Toren |url=https://www.anthonyreynolds.com/biogs/toren.htm |website=Anthony Reynolds Gallery |access-date=28 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://www.barclay-art.com/stephen-barclay-curriculum-vitae/ |website=Stephen Barclay |access-date=28 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Biography |url=https://www.trevorsutton.com/biography/ |website=Trevor Sutton |access-date=28 May 2023}}
In 1994, she and Belinda Harding developed a plan to establish a Museum of Women's Art (MWA) in London. The plan was not implemented, though an inaugural exhibition, Reclaiming the Madonna, was held at the Economist Building that year.{{cite news |last1=Morrison |first1=Blake |title=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-buried-treasure-three-meetings-this-week-will-consider-whether-we-need-a-museum-of-women-s-art-blake-morrison-talks-to-its-proposers-asks-the-artists-for-their-views-and-discovers-what-lies-neglected-in-1417933.html |access-date=26 May 2023 |work=Arts: Buried treasure? |date=2 July 1994}}
From 2000 to 2007, she was an interviewer for the British Library and Tate Gallery Archive's Artists' Lives oral history project and was considered a catalyst for the 'Art Professionals' portion, recording life story interviews with curators, critics, dealers and gallery owners.{{cite web |title=National Life Stories - Annual Report and Accounts 2005/2006 |url=https://www.bl.uk/projects/britishlibrary/~/media/693a60d828f5418f81d35b3ae1fa4699.ashx |website=British Library |access-date=26 May 2023}}
Selected solo exhibitions
Her one-person exhibitions include:
- 2015 [https://monicapetzal.com/project/the-dresden-project-indelible-marks-at-the-hlsi/ The Dresden Project - Indelible Marks], Kreuzkirche, Dresden and Herbert Art Gallery and Museum{{cite web |title=Monica Petzal – The Dresden project exhibition |url=https://dresdentrust.org/2020/10/01/monica-petzal-die-dresdner-projektausstellung/?lang=de |website=The Dresden Project |access-date=28 May 2023}}
- 2015 75/70 The Coventry Dresden Towers, Coventry Cathedral{{cite web |title=A Greeting from the Bishop of Coventry, Christopher Cocksworth, on the occasion of the 10thAnniversary of the Re-Consecration of the Frauenkirche, Dresden on 25th October 2015 |url=https://d3hgrlq6yacptf.cloudfront.net/5f3ffda5728e0/content/pages/documents/1595592163.pdf |access-date=28 May 2023}}
- 2020 [https://dissentdisplacement.com Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story], Leicester Museum & Art Gallery{{cite web |title=Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story – Monica Petzal and Margarete Klopfleisch |url=https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/dissent-and-displacement-margarete-klopfleisch-monica-petzal/ |website=Insider Outsider Festival |access-date=28 May 2023}}
Selected group exhibitions
- 2010 Originals 10, at the Mall Galleries
- 2012 Process and Innovation, British Printmaking Japan, at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (co-curator with Rebecca Salter){{cite web |last1=Love |first1=Joanna |title=British Printmaking Japan: 6th International Kyoto Hanga 2012 International Print Exhibition: Process and Innovation |url=http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/4857/ |website=University of Northampton |access-date=28 May 2023}}
- 2015 Printmakers Council, at the Bankside Gallery{{cite web |title=Miniprints @ 50 Years of Artists Prints |url=https://printmakerscouncil.com/exhibition/miniprints-50-years-of-artists-prints/ |website=Printmakers Council |access-date=28 May 2023}}
- 2016 To a death in sweating wakefulness, [https://piefactorymargate.co.uk/ Pie Factory Margate]{{cite web |last1=Love |first1=Joanna |title=To a death in sweating wakefulness |url=https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/to-a-death-in-sweating-wakefulness |website=University of Brighton |access-date=28 May 2023}}
- 2018 Reconciliations, The Exchange, Bush House, King's College London and The Knapp Gallery, Regent's University London{{cite web |title=Art and Reconciliation: A Conversation |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/art-and-reconciliation-a-conversation |website=King's College London |access-date=28 May 2023}}
- 2020 9th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro, Portugal{{cite web |title=Monica Petzal |url=https://bienaldouro.com/artists/monica.petzal |website=Global Prints - Bienal do Douro |access-date=28 May 2023}}
Selected public collections
- Diocese, Dresden{{cn|date=June 2023}}
- Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
- Royal College of Art, London{{cite web |title=Monica Petzal, artist |url=https://www.buru.org.uk/record.php?id=1047 |website=Ben Uri Research Unit for the Study of the Jewish and Immigrant Contribution to the Visual Arts in Britain since 1900 |access-date=1 June 2023}}
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London{{cite web |title=Print |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1715961/print/ |website=Victoria and Albert Museum |access-date=28 May 2023}}
- The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge{{cite web |title=Monica Petzal |url=https://womensart.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/artist/monica-petzal/ |website=The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College |access-date=28 May 2023}}
References
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External links
- [https://monicapetzal.com/ Official website]
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