Kiki Smith. Seton Smith. Tony Smith
dal 6/2/2013 al 27/4/2013
Segnalato da
6/2/2013
Kiki Smith. Seton Smith. Tony Smith
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Three artists, one family. This retrospective presents not only Tony Smith's sculptural work but also his paintings and architecture. Smith's daughters Kiki Smith (born 1954) and Seton Smith (born 1955) are also artists whose works exhibit subtle links with those of their father.
curated by Friedrich Meschede.
Three artists, one family. Tony Smith (1912–1980), the 100th anniversary of whose birth was in
2012, is regarded as one of the most important sculptors of the 1960s. Having initially worked
as an architect, at the age of fifty he turned to the medium of sculpture. In 1962 he made Die, the
first autonomous cube in the history of sculpture. Until his death in 1980, he produced an extensive sculptural oeuvre. Tony Smith also did numerous paintings in the non-figurative tradition.
This retrospective exhibition presents not only Smith’s sculptural work but also, for the first time
in Europe, his paintings and his architecture, in the form of models and drawings.
Tony Smith’s daughters Kiki Smith (born 1954) and Seton Smith (born 1955) are also artists
whose works exhibit subtle links with those of their father.
“Our home was his studio, where we were taught about the ‘integrity of scale’ from his maquettes, drawings, and sculptures.”
Kiki Smith’s early works date from the 1980s, emerging from the feminist environment of the New
York art scene. She is known today for an oeuvre (sculptures, glass paintings, tapestries, among
other things) in which she gives figurative expression to fabulous interwoven complex worlds.
She explores the impact of traditional symbols, images and signs by entwining cultural-historical
(re)-interpretations of motifs and materials with new meanings.
Seton Smith chose the medium of photography and began to photograph architecture at an early
age. Her artistic intention is to dissolve the links between architectonic form and concrete function. She is interested in examining architectural structures that influence and shape our thinking.
The exhibition is a production of Kunsthalle Bielefeld, curated by Friedrich Meschede. The show,
containing more than 120 exhibits, has been installed at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in close
collaboration with the Tony Smith Estate and the two artists.
Publication
Kiki Smith. Seton Smith. Tony Smith
Kerber Verlag have published a catalogue on the exhibition at Kunsthalle in Bielefeld, featuring a
piece by Gregor Stemmrich on the oeuvre of Tony Smith, an essay by Doris von Draten on the
work of Seton Smith, an essay by Christina Lehnert on the work of Kiki Smith, and an essay by
Friedrich Meschede on the development of public sculpture in 1960s’ America. Sponsored by
Kunststiftung NRW. Price: 33 CHF
Image: Tony Smith with daughters, 1969
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Vernissage 07 February 18:00
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
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Hours:
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Thursday: 10am-8pm
Closed on Mondays
Easter Monday, 10am-5pm
Whit Monday, 10am-5pm
Admission:
Regular: CHF 12.-
Reduced: CHF 8.-
(Senior citizens, students, apprentices, groups of 10 and more [p.p.], Ö1-Club members)
Children, 16 and under: free