"Reconstruction: The Art of Salvatore Meo" Exhibition
Pavel Zoubok Gallery
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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.]
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Schedule
from November 13, 2008 to December 20, 2008
Opening Reception on 2008-11-13 from 18:00 to 20:00