NYAB Event - "Reconstruction: The Art of Salvatore Meo" Exhibition

This event has ended.
At Pavel Zoubok Gallery
Media: Drawing, Other

print

An exhibition of mixed-media works and drawings by iconoclast and trailblazer, Salvatore Meo (1914-2004) created mixed media constructions with a particular interest in drawing and gestural abstraction. His primary sources were broken and/or discarded objects from the street- dresser drawers, old toys, scraps of clothes, torn packages, shoes heels, bones, string, and rusted wire. Meo was not concerned with the alchemical transformation of the commonplace, the search for hidden “jewels”, or the Surrealist double-entendre of the objet trouve. Rather, his was a poetic exploration of abandonment, decay and destruction. In contrast to his Pop and Nouveau Realist contemporaries such as Robert Rauschenberg and Mimmo Rotella, Meo rejected the seductive imagery of the commercial world.

[Image: Salvatore Meo "World Premiere" (1976) Mixed-media assemblage 32 3/8 x 13 3/4 in.]

Reviews

Please Login or Sign up to add a review.

Blog it!

Paste this code into your blog to share this event.
If you reviewed the event on your blog, tell us in the comments above!

Embed: