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B A R B A R A M AT H E S G A L L E R Y

Mari o Sch ifano (1934–1998) Senza titolo, 1965 Enamel on canvas 31H 2 31H in; 80 2 80 cm

ABOUT THE GALLERY

Barbara Mathes Gallery was founded in 1978 and specializes in paintings, sculpture and works on paper by modern and contemporary masters. The gallery is known for its tightly focused one-person shows and for imaginative thematic exhibitions that present major modern and contemporary artists in new and illuminating contexts. The gallery is also dedicated to exhibiting the work of overlooked major masters in art historical contexts.

In 2014, the gallery presented Spaces of American Pop: Allan D’Arcangelo, Joe Goode and Robert Moskowitz, which oVered a fresh view of three artists who captured the changing spaces of the American landscape during the 1960s. Other recent thematic exhibitions include According to Plan and California Dreaming. According to Plan explored the multivalent role that plans play in determining artistic outcomes, and California Dreaming featured a diverse selection of Californian artists active in the 1960s and 1970s, highlighting an alternative history of American art.

Continuing its engagement with Italian Art of the Post-War period, the gallery recently exhibited sculpture, drawings and plaster works from the Fausto Melotti estate for the Wrst time in the United States.

These works highlight a more personal and intimate side of the Italian master’s practice and represent a stark contrast to the reWned elegance of his metal sculptures. The Gallery has also presented Elementi Spaziali, a group exhibition of four prominent postwar Italian artists that have never been shown together in New York: Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino and Paolo Scheggi. These four Milanese artists participated in a radical reinvention of painting that built on the insights of Lucio Fontana. Expanding on the implications of the older artist’s

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slashed canvases, these artists created dynamic forms of relief that emphasized the work of art’s response to real light and space.

The gallery has an ongoing history of organizing solo exhibitions of artists long due for reappraisal. In 2008, the gallery showed recent paintings and prints by Neil Jenney, marking the famously reclusive artist’s Wrst show of new work in New York in over twenty years. In 2010, the gallery presented a career survey of the French photographer Patrick Faigenbaum, in what was the artist’s Wrst New York solo show since 1999. In 2012, the gallery announced its representation of Agostino Bonalumi and organized the artist’s Wrst New York solo exhibition since the 1960s. In the spring of 2015, the gallery presented Tadaaki Kuwayama: Early Work, 1962–1975, an exhibition that reintroduced American audiences to the minimal paintings of Tadaaki Kuwayama.

Kuwayama’s distinctive works were shown at the historic Green Gallery in the early 1960s and were included in the epochal 1966 Systemic Painting exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum.

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Cy Twombly (1928–2011) Blue Ridge Mountains TransWxed by a Roman Piazza, 1962 Oil paint, wax crayon and lead pencil on canvas 58H 2 71 in; 148.6 2 180.3 cm

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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) Red Shoe, 1991 Mixed media 11L 2 15L 2 4I in; 29.5 2 40 2 12 cm

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SELECTED EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

2015

Diptychs & Triptychs

Tadaaki Kuwayama, Early Work: 1962–1975

2014

Spaces of American Pop: Allan D’Arcangelo,

Joe Goode and Robert Moskowitz 2013

According to Plan

Fausto Melotti: Works on Paper and Plaster

California Dreaming

2012

Elementi Spaziali: Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani,

Dadamaino, Paolo Scheggi

Agostino Bonalumi. Inaugural American Exhibition

2011

Fausto Melotti: Sculpture and Ceramics

Enrico Castellani: Silver and White

Sol LeWitt: Structures and Drawings

2010

Patrick Faigenbaum: People and Places

2009

DubuVet & Miró: A Dialogue

The Minimalist Site

2008

Neil Jenney: Recent Work

2007

Calder/Melotti: Lyrical Constructions

Yayoi Kusama: From Here to InWnity

2005

Oscar Bluemner: A Retrospective

2003

Ad Reinhardt & Contemporaries, 1940–1950

2002

Collage: Abstract Expressionist and Pop

William Turnbull: Sculpture

Gerhard Richter: Paintings from the 1980s

2000

Frank Stella: Love Letters and Correspondence

1999

Degas Sculptures and Works on Paper

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installation view Yayoi Kusama: From Here to InWnity, 2007

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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) Untitled, 1955 Pastel, gouache and ink on board 27G 2 23H in; 69.2 2 59.7 cm

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installation view Art Basel Miami Beach, 2014

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Mich e lange lo Pistoletto (b. 1933) Gabriella, 1987 Silkscreen on polished stainless steel mirror 47G 2 39K in; 120 2 100 cm Unique

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Fausto Me lotti (1901–1986)  Il viaggio della luna, 1973 (1974), silver and gold, 28K 2 61M 2 7 in; 72 2 157 2 18 cm

installation view Enrico Castellani: Silver and White, 2011

Gi ulio Paol i ni (b. 1940) Mimesi, 1975 Plaster Each: 15 2 9H 2 8 in; 38 2 24 2 20 cm ap 3/3 (Edition of 20 + 3 ap)

Al lan D ’Arcange lo (1930–1998) Landscape, 1968 Acrylic on canvas 54 2 48 in; 137.2 2 122 cm

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Robe rt I ndi ana (b. 1928) Brow, 1960–1962 Oil on wood (assemblage) with metal wheels 44I 2 18H 2 13I in; 113.7 2 47 2 35 cm

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Opposite: Joh n Bal de ssari (b. 1931) Double Vision: Warhol Red, 2011 Varnished archival print on canvas with oil paint 74H 2 54H in; 189.2 2 138.4 cm

Andy W ar h ol (1928–1987) Self-Portrait, 1967 Silkscreen ink on paper 17I 2 11I in; 45 2 30 cm

installation view Tadaaki Kuwayama: Early Work, 1962–1975, 2015

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Design and Photography: Light Blue Studio

B A R B A R A M AT H E S G A L L E R Y 22 East 80th Street New York 10075 Tel 212 570 4190 art @ barbaramathesgallery.com www.barbaramathesgallery.com

22 East 80th Street New York 10075 Tel 212 570 4190 art @ barbaramathesgallery.com www.barbaramathesgallery.com