Peter Schwarzburg
dal 17/10/2005 al 2/12/2005
Segnalato da
17/10/2005
Peter Schwarzburg
Meghan Carleton AFP Galleries, New York
Paintings and drawings from 1960 to 2002. This exhibition presents artist's sensitive, inventive and poetically powerful works, constituting a personal synthesis out of his major influences of Cezanne, Picasso, Beckmann and Marin.
Paintings and drawings from 1960 to 2002
An exhibition of paintings and drawings executed from 1960 to 2002 by the late Peter Schwarzburg will open on Tuesday, October 18, 2005, at AFP Galleries, Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, Suite 702.
Developed and organized by art historian and theorist Neil Chassman, this exhibition presents Schwarzburg’s sensitive, inventive and poetically powerful works, constituting a personal synthesis out of his major influences of Cézanne, Picasso, Beckmann and Marin.
Executed on the west coast of Lake George, the seasides of City Island and Montauk, Central Park, the bridges of New York City, and Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, his work is straightforwardly brilliant without the least trace of sentimentality or affectation. Schwarzburg’s works include portraits, self-portraits, archetypes, mythological and other figurative images. He also created covers for Beat publications such as Yugen, previously exhibited at The Whitney Museum of Art.
Peter Schwarzburg was born in Queens, New York, in 1933, and died September 1, 2002. His gallery affiliations in the 1950s and 60s included the Tannenbaum Gallery, where he was a young American artist showing with modern European masters Ernst, Léger, Derain and Nolde; and World House Galleries, designed by the leading Surrealist architect, Frederick Kiesler.
Essentially a “Renaissance man†who painted continually from childhood to his untimely death, Schwarzburg was also a professor of art theory, philosophy and psychology for thirty-five years at The New School, Vassar and Long Island University. His paintings came out of a thoroughly comprehensive understanding of art history in the western world, and from his passion for literature, music and film.
Two gallery talks will be given by Neil Chassman on Monday, October 24 at 6pm and Wednesday, October 26 at 3pm. There is no charge for these talks which are open to the public.
An illustrated monograph will accompany the exhibition.
Opening Reception: on Tuesday, October 18, from 6-8pm
Meghan Carleton AFP Galleries
41 East 57th Street, Suite 702 - New York
Contact: Meghan Carleton, 212.230.1003
Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 10 to 6 and by appointment