George Rickey and Kenneth Snelson "Constructivists"
Marlborough (Midtown)
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George Rickey and Kenneth Snelson are internationally regarded as among the most inventive and influential sculptors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The exhibition will include eleven important sculptures by each artist, ranging in size from tabletop pieces to garden-scale works.
Constructivists: George Rickey and Kenneth Snelson brings together the work of two artists who developed new and historically unique sculptural mediums independent of prevailing artistic movements. Although the artists did not meet until they were both well established, their work shares significant similarities. As Philip Rickey, George Rickey’s son, has said regarding the artists’ common interests: “My father’s and Ken’s artistic roots were grounded in the revolutionary ideas of the Russian constructivists and the Dutch DeStijl, and as such were not aligned or allied with the prevailing art in the United States of the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism. During the 1960s and ‘70s they continued to follow their own interests and not the main artistic currents of the American art world: pop and minimalism. I think this partly was because they each were investigating unique aspects of physical phenomena – Ken, the nature of structure, and my father, the nature of movement.”
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from April 28, 2011 to May 28, 2011