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Frank Stella
Hacilar
February 19 - March 16, 2002
Hacilar
February 19 - March 16, 2002
For Immediate Release January 2002
Artemis o Greenberg Van Doren o Gallery is pleased to
present an exhibition of new paintings by
Frank Stella: Hacilar
February 19 March 16, 2002
Reception February 19, 6 8 PM
Artemis o Greenberg Van Doren o 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 Harriets 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.
Artemis o Greenberg Van Doren o 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.
Artemis o Greenberg Van Doren o Gallery is pleased to
present an exhibition of new paintings by
Frank Stella: Hacilar
February 19 March 16, 2002
Reception February 19, 6 8 PM
Artemis o Greenberg Van Doren o 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 Harriets 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.
Artemis o Greenberg Van Doren o 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.