"No Images of Man" Exhibition
Sandra Gering Gallery
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In 1959 the Museum of Modern Art presented New Images of Man, an exhibition of recent imagist art from Europe and the United States assembled by the expatriate German art historian Peter Selz. Coming at a time when Abstract Expressionism was ascendant and figurative work widely viewed as retrograde, the show seemed a twisted paragon of high-minded humanism for a traumatized cold war world. The current exhibition is reprise, reconsideration and sequel. Giacometti, Butler, Appel, Lebrun and Roszak were in the original 1959 MoMA show. Saura, whose anguished paintings made in Franco's post-war Spain echoed similar concerns, was central to Frank O'Hara's follow-up MoMA exhibition of 1960, New Spanish Painting and Sculpture. Through the 1960s artists like Mallary, Maryan, Marsicano and Beerman manifested deep, oblique, and déclassé existential concerns, often tinged with an absurdism made overt in the work of Beery and Kudo. Today, McCarthy, Meese, Prince, Pensato, Tyson and Burkhart demonstrate that ecstatic transgression and deliriously misanthropic humanism continue to be odd and interesting bedfellows. Curated by Mitchell Algus.
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Schedule
from June 25, 2008 to August 22, 2008
Artist(s)
Karel Appel, Miriam Beerman, Gene Beery, Bernard Buffet, Dan Burkhart, Reg Butler, Alberto Giacometti, Tetsumi Kudo, Rico Lebrun, Robert Mallary, Nicholas Marsicano, Maryan, Roberto Matta, Paul McCarthy, Jonathan Meese, Joyce Pensato, Richard Prince, Theodore Roszak, Antonio Saura, Nicola Tyson