First survey exhibition in the United States of Marcia Schvartz opens at 55 Walker
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY
.- 55 Walker (Bortolami, kaufmann repetto, and Andrew Kreps Gallery) opened the first survey exhibition in the United States of Marcia Schvartz (b. 1955, Argentina). The exhibition spans across five decades of the artists practice, from the 1970s to today, and will be accompanied by a full text by art historian Lucy Hunter, supported by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
Marcia Schvartzs practice is grounded in the expressive yet rigorous rendering of the human figure, working with painting, ceramic, textile, sculpture, assemblage, and performance. She is best recognized for her figurative paintings that depict the complexity of cosmopolitan social dynamics. Illustrating the political history of Argentina through personal and populist terms, Schvartzs work has a recurrent focus on female figures which she represents in a radical anti-pa
The First Art Newspaper on the Net
A life-size recreation of Bedroom in Arles, part of Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience at Skylight on Vesey Street in New York, June 5, 2021. Two immersive van Gogh exhibitions make a critic reflect on her encounters with his paintings and question what it means to have an intimate connection with an artist. Sam Youkilis/The New York Times.
by Maya Phillips
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- In 2017, I took a trip to Paris, where I greedily took in as much art as I could. In one of the cavernous chambers of the ornate Musée dOrsay was the Vincent van Gogh exhibition, his framed works (Starry Night Over the Rhône, Bedroom in Arles, The Church at Auvers, a number of his self-portraits) set against a brazen sapphire background rather than the usual chaste white museum walls. Ive had a poster of Starry Night, gifted to me by a college friend, since my undergraduate dorm days. It hangs framed in my bedroom today. At Musée dOr