PHILADELPHIA ART MUSEUM AND TATE MODERN TO HOST ARSHILE GORKY RETROSPECTIVE
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Aug 25 2009
Armenia
Philadelphia Art Museum will host a retrospective of renowned artist
Arshile Gorky, Armenian-born American Abstract Expressionist Painter,
one of the founders of abstract surrealism movement. The exhibition
commences October 21, 2009 – January 10, 2010 further to be moved
to Tate Modern, London where it will be shown from February 10 –
to May 3, 2010.
This exhibition surveys Gorky’s entire career from early 1920s until
his death in 1948 and includes around 180 works of art: paintings,
sculptures, prints and drawings – some them are exhibited for the
first time.
"Arshile Gorky is a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction
that transformed American art. This comprehensive retrospective is
the first full-scale survey of Gorky’s work in nearly thirty years,
thus providing a new generation of viewers with the opportunity
to see this complex, influential, and deeply moving body of work,"
Philadelphia Art Museum website reads.
A Retrospective is organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in
association with Tate Modern, London and The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles.
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