Juan Carlos Stekelman Early Works (1965-1975)

Exposición / Frankendael Foundation / Middenweg 72 / Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Holanda
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Cuándo:
14 jul de 2012 - 30 sep de 2012

Inauguración:
14 jul de 2012

Organizada por:
Frankendael Foundation

Artistas participantes:
Juan Carlos Stekelman

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Juan Carlos Stekelman Early Works (1965-1975) is the first exhibition of the Argentinean artist Juan Carlos Stekelman (Buenos Aires 1936) in the Netherlands. The exhibition at the country estate Frankendael in Amsterdam has been developed by British collectors Stuart and Johan Daniel Evans (father and son) and will show works by Stekelman from their private collection.

 

Juan Carlos Stekelman has been painting for over fifty years, working on paper in gouache and acrylic and, from around 1955 onwards, making small edition linocuts. Throughout his career, Stekelman has remained consistently faithful to the figurative in his oeuvre. His drawings, paintings and prints obsessively re-work the forms and expressions of both people and animals. These mysterious figures are created from dreams rather than recognizable models, embodying a psychological escape into another world of the imagination and often evoking both humour and horror in the same instant.

 

Stekelman's figurative work stands apart from the modern, abstract tendencies so often identified today with Latin American art of the 20th Century. Although there are similarities in his style to the output of the Argentinian politically-engaged group Nueva Figuracion, Stekelman retreated from the avant garde movements of the 1960?s in Argentina and left the social and political turmoil that was mounting in the country. He first departed or New York (1963-68) and then moved on to London (1968-1988).

 

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