Reinventing Abstraction

2013

Folio; ca. 50 p ill

Tent. New York, Cheim & Read, 27-06-2013, 30-08-2013. - Groepstentoonstelling onderzoekt invloed en betekenis van de experimentele abstracte schilderkunst van een groep kunstenaars uit New York in de jaren '80. Met werk van o.a. Pat Steir, Mary Heilmann, Elizabeth Murray, David Reed, Joan Snyder, Stephen Mueller. - This exhibition focuses on New York abstraction in the 1980s as practiced by a generation of painters born between 1939 and 1949. Official accounts of the 1980s-the decade when most of these artists either emerged or solidified their approaches-tend to ignore the individualistic abstraction exemplified by these painters in favor of more easily identifiable movements and styles (Neo-Expressionism, Appropriation Art, Neo-Geo etc). For these artists, who were in their 30s and 40s during the 1980s, it was not a question of a "return to painting," but, rather, of finding a bridge between the radical, deconstructive abstraction of the late 1960s and 1970s (which many of them had been marked by) with a larger painting history and more subjective approaches. They opened their work to elements that had been largely excluded from abstraction in the previous decade, beginning with a reinvestigation of the conventional rectangular support. They were unafraid to explore gesture, improvisation, relational compositions, allusions to figuration and landscape, as well as art historical and cultural allusions, high and low

Located in: ABSTRACTE KUNST; VERENIGDE STATEN; 1980-1989

ISBN: 978-0-9851410-8-0

VUBIS: 2:89747