Juan Genovés: Recent Paintings

Exposición / Marlborough Nueva York / 40 West 57th Street / Nueva York, New York, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
13 sep de 2016 - 08 oct de 2016

Inauguración:
13 sep de 2016 / 18:00

Precio:
Entrada gratuita

Organizada por:
Marlborough

Artistas participantes:
Juan Genovés

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Acrílico  Acrílico en New York  Pintura  Pintura en New York 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Born in Valencia in 1930, Genovés is one of Spain's best-known contemporary artists. He is recognized for work rooted in Social Realism and Pop with a distinctly critical voice that advocated for political change during the Franco regime in Spain. Since the 1970s, Juan Genovés has returned to two subjects: the "alone individual" and the "multitude." Cadmium, 2015 (acrylic on canvas) relates to the artist's exploration of the multitude, where the collective body of humanity is pulled toward something greater than the individual. Here, his impastoed figures walk en masse either directly toward or away from an unseen force on a painterly, glowing orange ground. Paintings by Genovés depict bird's-eye views of scenes where no buildings, roads, trees or clues to a common place are visible, thus creating a landscape of humanity in motion. Genovés creates his distinctive figures from thickly applied acrylic paint that protrudes from the surfaces. The lines that reinforce the picture plane can be read as breaks in the image or as topographies encouraging the directional movement of the crowd. While the precise horizontal lines of Animacion, 2015 (acrylic on board) impose order on the field of action, the figures moving within convey a sense of celebration that prevails throughout the paintings in this exhibition. The freely painted lines of Pliegue, 2015 (acrylic on canvas) create a dimensional space that corral the multitudes together. The artist's use of line and perspective aligned with an exacting eye for the modulation and use of color is potently married to his conviction that art should be socially engaged and emotionally, indeed physically, engaging. As a child in Valencia, Genovés experienced the Spanish Civil War in a traumatic way: bombardments, death squads, neighborhoods silenced. Memories of crowds of people running for shelter still distantly inform his work, although in recent years his compositions are less existential and more harmonious. Throughout his long, illustrious career, the artist has never shied away from political engagement, even though it meant being jailed when his painting El Abrazo (now in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía) was made into a poster by the opposition. As the artist explained to Rubén Bonet in an interview, "The artist... testifies to his time, to a facet of his historical times." Genovés is the recipient of a number of important prizes, including the Mention of Honor at the XXXIII Venice Biennale, 1966; the Gold Medal at the VI Biennale Internazionale de San Marino, 1967; the Marzotto Internazional Prize, 1968; the Premio Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Spain, 1984; the Premio de las Artes Plásticas de l Generalitat Valenciana, Spain, 2002; and the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes, El Ministerio de Cultura de España, Plaza del Rey, Madrid, Spain, 2005. Genovés' work is found in many of the most important public collections in the United States and Europe, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, and Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany. An illustrated color catalogue will be available during the Turbatium, 2015 exhibition.

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