Frank Stella
dal 18/2/2002 al 16/3/2002
Segnalato da
Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
18/2/2002
Frank Stella
Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Hacilar 1999-2001. The show will feature six medium-to-large scale painted reliefs (epoxy and spray paint on aluminum and steel) from a recent series titled Hacilar, which the artist began in 1999. In 1999, Stella wrote about his visit to Lascaux on the occasion of his wife Harriet’s birthday, a revelation to him of prehistoric pictorial grandeur that, he claimed, was easily the rival of the best Renaissance painting, including the Sistine Chapel. And this magical world of primal art-making continued to kindle his imagination.
'Hacilar 1999-2001'
Artemis - Greenberg Van Doren - Fine Art is pleased to present new works by contemporary American artist Frank
Stella, on view from February 19 - March 16, 2002. The show will feature six medium-to-large scale painted reliefs
(epoxy and spray paint on aluminum and steel) from a recent series titled Hacilar, which the artist began in 1999.
In his essay for the brochure which accompanies the exhibition, Robert Rosenblum writes: It may come as less of a
surprise then to learn that more recently, as we entered a new millennium, Stella has plumbed even further back into
the history of pictorial art, arriving at its awesome roots in the images miraculously surviving on the walls of caves. In
1999, Stella wrote about his visit to Lascaux on the occasion of his wife Harriet’s birthday, a revelation to him of
prehistoric pictorial grandeur that, he claimed, was easily the rival of the best Renaissance painting, including the Sistine
Chapel.
And this magical world of primal art-making continued to kindle his imagination. The more recent excavations,
begun in the 1950s, of Neolithic towns - Çatal Hüyük, Hacilar - on the Anatolian plateau of Turkey were added to his
expanding image-bank, prompting new sequences of work that continue to defy traditional distinctions between painting
and sculpture, between optical illusions and tangible, material fact.
Reception February 19, 6 - 8 PM
Artemis - Greenberg Van Doren - Fine Art is located at 730 5th Avenue at 57th Street.
The gallery is open from Tuesday - Saturday from 10 AM to 6 PM and by appointment.
Please contact the gallery at 212.445.0444 for further information.
Image: Frank Stella, Hacilar, Artemis · Greenberg Van Doren · Gallery, Mixed Media, h: 52 x w: 42 x d: 64 in / h: 132.1 x w: 106.7 x d: 162.6 cm. Materials: Cast aluminum & steel, 1999
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