Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight

Exposición / Wexner Center for the Arts / 1871 N High St / Columbia, South Carolina, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
04 feb de 2017 - 16 abr de 2017

Inauguración:
04 feb de 2017

Organizada por:
Wexner Center for the Arts

Artistas participantes:
Carmen Herrera

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Celebrate the extraordinary artistic vision of Carmen Herrera-a groundbreaking Cuban-born, New York-based artist-in the first museum survey of her work in nearly two decades. Although Herrera's distilled, geometric style emerged concurrently with but independently of other vanguard, mid-20th-century artists like Ellsworth Kelly, for many years her masterful work has not received the critical attention it merits. Discover her genius for yourself in this much-lauded exhibition that makes its only stop outside of New York at the Wex. Featuring more than 50 works, Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight focuses on the artist's work from 1948 to 1978, when she developed the signature hard-edged style that she continues to employ today at the age of 101. Displayed chronologically, the exhibition begins with paintings made while Herrera was in Paris (1948-54), works that echo cubist innovations of the early 20th century in a postwar context. Herrera unflinchingly continued to explore geometry, space, and the line in increasingly spare and refined compositions as she returned to New York in 1954, when Abstract Expressionism reigned supreme. You'll also see stunning works from Herrera's Blanco y Verde series (1959-71) and her dynamic Days of the Week series (1975-78), which illustrates her deft play with figure-ground relationships, as well as wooden sculptural "estructuras" that reveal her deep interest in architecture.

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