Leon Golub
dal 10/2/2006 al 17/3/2006
Segnalato da
10/2/2006
Leon Golub
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
The artist explored themes of power and vulnerability, experimenting with paint surfaces that matched the ferocity of his subject matter. The exhibition features selected works from different periods that have contemporary relevance.
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts will exhibit paintings and drawings by Leon Golub, one of America’s leading postwar painters. Golub, who died in 2004, explored themes of power and vulnerability, experimenting with paint surfaces that matched the ferocity of his subject matter. The exhibition, the first since his death, features selected works from different periods that have contemporary relevance. Included are paintings from the Gigantomachy, Combat, and Napalm series of the ‘60s as well as some of his last and toughest works from this decade. The Feldman Gallery has also assembled many of the smaller paintings that Golub completed towards the end of his life, which have never been seen before in such a complete group. Alternately titled This Could Be You and We Can Disappear You, many of these paintings were included in his installation at Documenta 11 in 2002.
There is a complementary exhibition of Golub’s work at Griffin in Santa Monica, California from January 28 to March 11.
An activist, author, and teacher, Leon Golub was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 1996 recipient of the Hiroshima Art Prize (jointly with Nancy Spero). Museum collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Malmo Konsthall, Sweden; and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany.
Two books about Golub’s work were published in 2004: Dog (onestar press, Paris) with layout and design by Golub; and Don’t Tread on Me: Drawings from 1947-2004 (Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Griffin Contemporary, and Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London). A second edition of Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real by Jon Bird (Reaktion Books, London) will be published in 2006.
There will be a reception February 11 from 6:00 to 8:00.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
31 Mercer Street - New York
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 6. Monday by appointment