Julian Schnabel
dal 16/10/2003 al 15/11/2003
Segnalato da
16/10/2003
Julian Schnabel
Pace Wildenstein, New York
New Indian Paintings and Selected Sculpture consists of seven recent paintings and five bronze sculptures from the late 1980s. The paintings include five portraits, oil and wax on canvas, of early 20th century Indian Chiefs. The bronze sculptures are totemic.
PaceWildenstein is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by Julian Schnabel on view at 534 West 25th Street, New York, from October 17 through November 15, 2003.
Julian Schnabel: New Indian Paintings and Selected Sculpture consists of seven recent paintings and five bronze sculptures from the late 1980s. The paintings include five portraits, oil and wax on canvas, of early 20th century Indian Chiefs. The bronze sculptures are totemic.
Over the past three decades Schnabel has used his peripatetic lifestyle to seek out imagery for his work. Beginning with a trip to Europe in the late 1970s, during which he traveled to Germany, Italy, and Spain, where he encountered the architecture of Antonio Gaudi, to his later travels to Cuba and Mexico, the artist has found and continually integrated subject matter from various civilizations and cultures into his work.
'There's an ethnographic appearance to certain kinds of marks, certain kinds of materials, things that are in common or common in these different places in the world, that carry cultural, religious, political implicationsx{2026}they carry the very loaded resonance of this simultaneity of time that informs our understanding of our own existence,' Schnabel commented in a 1989 interview about the effect travel has had on his work.
In his most recent paintings, Schnabel returns to these ethnographic subjects. The Indian Paintings reflect his continued interest in the use of cultural imagery as source material, which Schnabel assimilates and translates into his paintings.
Since 1976 when Schnabel had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the artist has been the subject of over 100 one-person shows internationally. In January 2004, there will be a major survey of Schnabel's work on view at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. The exhibition will travel to the Reina Sofia at the Palacio Velasquez, Madrid.
Julian Schnabel's work is in several public collections internationally including: The Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Britain, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
For further information on Julian Schnabel: New Indian Paintings and Selected Sculpture, including images, please refer to the website or contact Sarah Kurz at 212-421-3292.
A public opening will be held on Thursday, October 16 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Hours: Tues. - Fri. 9:30am-6pm, Sat. 10am-5pm
Image:
Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Indian 5) 2002
oil and wax on canvas, 90" x 84" (228.6 cm x 213.4 cm)
Pace Wildenstein
32 E.57th St. 2nd floor
New York
Telephone:1.212.421.3292
Fax: 1.212.421.0835