The Directors of Marlborough Gallery are pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by the inimitable American artist Red Grooms. The exhibition, entitled Torn from the Pages, will open October 24 with a reception from 6:00-8:00 PM and will continue through December 1, 2012. Since Ruckus Manhattan, his first widely acclaimed exhibition at Marlborough in 1976, Grooms has staked his claim as one of America’s most original, inventive, and popular artists. In this exhibition he turns his creativity towards other established artists, making them his subjects.
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In the October 5th Wall Street Journal article, "Coming Back to Zao Wou-Ki," Jason Chow highlights how the abstract artist's work over the past decade has gone from selling for only $50,000 to selling between $1 to $8 million. Wou-Ki last year made over $90 million at auction, establishing him as China's highest-selling living artist. Read the full article online and learn more about the artist.
In the October issue of Richmond Magazine renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly is interviewed about his upcoming site-specific installation at the Virgina Museum of Fine Arts, which is on view from October 20th, 2012 to February 13th, 2013. Read the full article online and learn more about the artist.
The Directors of Marlborough Gallery are pleased to announce that an exhibition of new work by the contemporary American Realist painter, Richard Estes, will open on September 20th at Marlborough Gallery, 40 West 57th Street, and continue through October 20. This exhibition, titled New York by Night, marks the artist’s nineteenth year with Marlborough.
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Summary: Feature on the artist in The New York Times in advance of the exhibition "Manolo Valdés: Monumental Sculpture" at the New York Botanical Garden
Manolo Valdés (b.1942) is one of Spain’s most important and respected artists and is considered to be one of the most original and versatile artists working today. For Valdés the history of art is a major source of inspiration as he looks to the old masters, such as Velázquez, Cranach, van Eyck, Fra Filippo Lippi , as well as the modernists, Picasso and Matisse. However, he finds more than just inspiration in the works of these artists; he does not simply copy the work of his artistic forebears but uses their work “as a pretext” (“como pretexto”) to create an entirely new aesthetic object. He employs his painterly arsenal: mounds of dense oil pigment, torn and reassembled bits of burlap, to create a large scale head derived from a Matisse painting or a sculpture consisting of an assemblage of pieces of alabaster or rare and exotic wood evoking three dimensional marquetry to create the imposing “Menina” or the “Dama a Caballo” derived from the paintings of Diego Velázquez.* Velázquez has had the greatest influence on Valdés’ art; the 17th-century Spanish Baroque master has guided Valdés over the years through a broad range of endeavors, from large scale painting to monumental sculptures. His series of large bronze figures with billowing gowns, are composites distilled from images in Velázquez’s masterpiece of 1656, Las Meninas, in the Prado in Madrid.* Furthermore Valdés’ relationship with art history and historical places can be seen in his installation of the Reina Marianas and Meninas in the gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris (2005), a further installation of paintings and sculptures in the Chateau de Chenonceau (2005) and more recently the 2010 installation in the Chateau de Chambord. •
His work is included in more than forty public collections including the Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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The New York Botanical Garden and Marlborough Gallery are pleased to announce an exhibition of monumental sculpture by Manolo Valdés. On view from September 22, 2012 through May 26, 2013, Manolo Valdés: Monumental Sculpture will include seven bronze, cor-ten steel and aluminum sculptures ranging in size from well over 17 feet tall to more than 50 feet in width.
The sculptures have been sited to take maximum advantage of the Garden’s dramatic views with special attention given to the visual impact of the changing seasons. The artist has designed the installation to include surprising changes in the visual character of the sculptures throughout the seasons.
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