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24/1/2000

JASPER JOHNS: new pintings and works on paper

Yale Art Museums, New Haven

In the past three years Jasper Johns (born 1930), one of America's - and the twentieth century's - most influential artists, has created a remarkable new body of work. This exhibition, composed of six paintings, two drawings, and four prints, draws upon the spare open fields of gray, striking in their apparent emptiness, that recall the impastos of earlier work. Mysteriously, Johns has infiltrated seemingly impenetrable references that couple childhood recollections of Halloween with images of a spiral galaxy and the Big Dipper. Many of the works also include a harlequin pattern, a potent recollection of the tragicomic witness (the artist) that figures in modern art from Degas to Picasso. As is so often the case with Johns's work, the series seems to accrue meanings and complexity, all of which are conjoined by the hanging arc of string that is suspended in front of each painted surface. It is this motif of the catenary curve - one formed by the force of gravity alone - that is strikingly new and suggests the bridging of time and space, the small and the large, the child and the adult, the comic and the tragic, life and death. Organized at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where it opened in September, the exhibition was supported at Yale through the generosity of the late S. Sidney Kahn. Art Gallery curators Richard S. Field and Joachim Pissarro contributed the probing interpretive essays on Johns's current and past work to the accompany- ing fully-illustrated catalogue, on sale in the museum shop for $24.95. Following its showing in New Haven, the exhibition travels to the Dallas Museum of Art.


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