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Exhibitions, Fall 2008
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Gabriel Laderman
Co-organized by the U.Va. Art Museum and the Museum of Art of the University of New Hampshire Born in Brooklyn in 1929, Gabriel Laderman is considered a founding father of post-modern figuration. Four decades of Laderman’s development as an artist working with still life, landscape, and narrative are examined in this exhibition. One of the first painters to reject both the conventions of abstract expressionism and collage, Laderman emerged as a key figure in the blossoming of new realism in the 1960s and 1970s. His essays in Artforum and ArtNews called for artists to develop a wide knowledge of pictorial traditions. Laderman’s marriage of abstract structure and perceptual representation influenced such artists as William Bailey, Rackstraw Downes, and Paula Rego. The exhibition is curated by David Carbone, Lincoln Perry, and Langdon Quin and is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by Perry. Both the exhibition and accompanying catalogue were made possible by generous gifts from the U.Va. Art Museum Volunteer Board, Allison and Donald Innes, Richard and Melissa Spurzem, Ruth Cross, Arts$, an anonymous donor, and the Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco.
El Lissitzky
Organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington DC Two complete sets of the influential Russian abstract artist El Morduchovitch Lissitzky’s futuristic portfolios, commissioned by the Kestner Society in 1923, are highlighted in Futurist Portfolios. Twenty prints in all are featured, eight from his Proun portfolio which he intended as a prototype for future mechanical and architectural designs, and twelve from his Victory Over the Sun portfolio, created to commemorate Kasimir Malevich’s 1913 futurist opera of the same name. Between 1923 and 1928, El Lissitzky took his Prouns prints into a three-dimensional space, building abstract rooms. Contemporary artist Hideyo Okamura recreates Lissitzky’s 1923 Proun room of Berlin by considering the architectural elements of the gallery space where the prints will be displayed. Following Lissitzky’s philosophies closely, Okamura collaborates with his muse, rendering the room with Lissitzky’s preferred architectural tones and shapes that wrap around corners and ascend to the ceiling of the gallery. Okamura thusly creates wall-size abstractions that give viewers a three-dimensional experience of the modernist master’s work. The installation is designed by Hideyo Okamura and is curated by Elizabeth Turner, vice provost for the arts, U.Va., interim director, U.Va. Art Museum, and Elsa Smithgall, associate curator, The Phillips Collection. Sponsored by the U.Va. Art Museum Volunteer Board, Arts Enhancement Fund, and Arts$.
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![Figurenmappe Sieg über die Sonne (Figurine Portfolio Victory over the Sun) Neuer [New Man] by El Lissitzky](images/Figurenmappe.jpg)
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