Arnold Mesches “~ eternal return ~”
Life on Mars Gallery
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At age 90, Mesches’ powerful trans-generational art-world voice has been speaking about the American social landscape for seven decades; his “enigmatic landscapes, cityscapes and nowhere-on-this-planet-scapes” are, as the art historian Robert Storr noted, “a snappy hybrid of vintage social realism, “Day of the Locust” burn-the-set backdrop painting and de Chirico-esque metaphysical puzzle-picturing in which nothing is quite itself, everything stands for something else and the viewer is on notice that after crossing the visual threshold of the uncanny realms Mesches depicts they are on their own.”
Mesches work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Gallery, and many others. The works presented have never been exhibited, and will be from Mesches’ series Coming Attractions, the more recent Shock and Awe, and the in-progress series Eternal Return.
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from April 11, 2014 to May 11, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-04-11 from 18:00 to 21:00