domingo, 27 de maio de 2012

Arte de um outro tipo: Abstração Internacional e o Guggenheim, 1949-1960

Grace Hartigan, Ireland, 1958, Oil on canvas, 200 x 271 cm, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, © Grace Hartigan Estate

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York

8 junho - 12 setembro, 2012


José Guerrero, Signs and Portents, 1956, Oil on canvas, 175.9 x 250.2 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VEGAP, Madrid, Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Composta por cerca de 100 obras de cerca de 70 artistas, a exposição explora tendências internacionais de abstração da década anterior ao icônico Guggenheim  prédio projetado por Frank Lloyd Wright, inaugurado em outubro de 1959, quando os artistas de vanguarda trabalhando nos Estados Unidos e na Europa foram pioneiros destas formas de arte influentes como o expressionismo abstrato, Cobra e a Arte Informal. Na década de 1950, muitos países terminaram seu isolacionismo do pós-guerra e entraram numa fase de abertura cultural e internacionalista.



Asger Jorn, A Soul for Sale (Ausverkauf einer Seele), 1958-59, Oil with sand on canvas, 200 x 250 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the Evelyn Sharp Foundation, 1983, © 2012 Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/COPY-DAN, Copenhagen.

Comprising approximately 100 works by nearly 70 artists, the exhibition explores international trends in abstraction in the decade before the Guggenheim's iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building opened in October 1959, when vanguard artists working in the United States and Europe pioneered such influential art forms as Abstract Expressionism, Cobra, and Art Informel. In the 1950s, many countries ended their postwar isolationism and entered a phase of cultural openness and internationalism. 


Judit Reigl, Outburst (Éclatement), 1956, Oil on canvas, 136 x 160 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift of the artist in honor of Kálmán Makláry, © Judit Reigl.


O famoso crítico de arte francês Michel Tapie declarou a existência de un autre arte (arte de outro tipo), um termo que abraçou um mosaico de estilos, mas, essencialmente, significou uma arte vanguarda que rejeitou uma conexão com qualquer tradição ou expressão do passado.



Alberto Burri, Composition (Composizione), 1953, Oil, gold paint, and glue on burlap and canvas, 86 x 100.4 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome.

The prominent French art critic Michel Tapié declared the existence of un art autre (art of another kind), a term embracing a mosaic of styles, but essentially signifying an avant-garde art that rejected a connection with any tradition or past idiom.


Takeo Yamaguchi, Work – Yellow (Unstable Square [Fuantei shikaku]), 1958, Oil on plywood, 182.6 x 182.6 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © Takeo Yamaguchi.


Com trabalhos de Karel Appel, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Burri, Eduardo Chillida, Lucio Fontana, Hartigan Grace, Asger Jorn, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Mathieu Georges, Isamu Noguchi, Okada Kenzo, Jackson Pollock, Soulages Pierre, Antoni Tàpies, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Takeo Yamaguchi, e Zao Wou-Ki, entre outros, a exposição considera os desenvolvimentos artísticos do mundo do período pós-II Guerra  chamando mais atenção aos artistas menos conhecidos no museu, colecionados ao lado daqueles há muito tempo canonizados.



Willem de Kooning, Composition, 1955, Oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas, 201 x 175.6 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © 2012 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo: Kris McKay/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

With works by Karel Appel, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Burri, Eduardo Chillida, Lucio Fontana, Grace Hartigan, Asger Jorn, Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning, Georges Mathieu, Isamu Noguchi, Kenzo Okada, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tàpies, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Takeo Yamaguchi, and Zao Wou-Ki, among others, the exhibition considers the artistic developments of the post-World War II period and draws greater attention to lesser-known artists in the museum?s collection alongside those long since canonized.



Willem de Kooning, Composition, 1955, Oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas, 201 x 175.6 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © 2012 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo: Kris McKay/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.


Arte de um outro tipo foi organizada pelo Curador Tracey Bashkoff,  Coleções e Exposições, e Megan Fontanella, curador assistente, Coleções e Proveniência, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.



Eduardo Chillida, From Within (Desde dentro), March 1953, Iron, 98.4 x 27.9 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VEGAP, Photo: Robert E. Mates © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

Art of Another Kind is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator, Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator, Collections and Provenance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.


Pierre Soulages, Painting, November 20, 1956 (Peinture, 20 novembre 1956), 1956, Oil on canvas, 195 x 130.2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, Photo: Kris McKay/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.



Karel Appel, The Crying Crocodile Tries to Catch the Sun, 1956, Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 113.1 cm, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 1976, © 2012 Karel Appel Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.




Conrad Marca-Relli, Warrior, 1956, Oil and canvas collage on canvas, 215.9 x 127 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © Archivio Marca-Relli, Parma.



Jackson Pollock, Ocean Greyness, 1953,Oil on canvas, 146.7 x 229 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © 2012 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.



Emilio Vedova, Image of Time (Barrier) (Immagine del tempo [Sbarramento]), 1951, Egg tempera on canvas, 130.5 x 170.4 cm, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, © Emilion Vedova, Photo: David Heald/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.



Isamu Noguchi, The Cry, 1959, Balsa wood on steel base, 221 x 85.1 x 47.6 cm, including base, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © 2012 The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Photo: Kris McKay/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.



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