Exhibitor listing
Hollis Taggart Gallery
958 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021
United States
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Website : http://www.hollistaggart.com
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Exhibitor's Artists:
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Pablo Atchugarry
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Milton Avery
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Robert Baribeau
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Norman Bluhm
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Alexander Calder
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Giorgio Cavallon
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John Chamberlain
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Allan D'Arcangelo
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Willem de Kooning
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Friedel Dzubas
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Helen Frankenthaler
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Angela Glajcar
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Michael Goldberg
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Hans Hofmann
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Franz Kline
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Alfred Leslie
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Conrad Marca-Relli
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Alfred H. Maurer
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Robert Motherwell
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Louise Nevelson
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Udo Nöger
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Richard Pousette-Dart
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Jesús Rafael Soto
Biography : Jesús Rafael Soto Biography 1923 Born in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela 1942 Recipient, scholarship from the Guyana regional authority to study at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas in Caracas, Venezuela 1947 Appointed director of the School of Art in the small town of Maracaibo, Venezuela 1950 Embarked from the port of La Guaira on an Italian cargo ship bound for Europe and immediately took a train to Paris, France 1951 Attended lectures by Léon Degand entitled From Figuration to Abstraction at the Atelier d'Art Abstrait, Paris, France 1960 Recipient, Venezuelan National Painting Award 1968 Recipient, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France 1972 Recipient, Orden Andrés Bello en Primer Grado, Caracas, Venezuela 1973 Opening of Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela 1999 Recipient, Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela 2005 Died in Paris, France Exhibition : Selected Exhibitions
2010 Black and Light, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
2009 Jesús Rafael Soto, Galerie Max Hetzler, Zimmerstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Galería Cayón: Materia Gris, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain
Latitudes: Mestres Latino-americanos na Coleção FEMSA, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Instalações, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2008 Jesús R. Soto, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
Latitudes: Maestros Latinoamericanos en la Colección FEMSA, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diagonal, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain
Facets, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
16th Biennale of Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The Implications of Image), Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
2007 Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection, Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal
Sammlung Gutmann, Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Tamaño Real , Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain
The Geometry of Hope, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
2006 Jesús Rafael Soto: Visioni in Movimento, Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Jesus Rafael Soto: Vision en Movimiento, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Estrecho Dudoso, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica
Zéro, Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Art on the Edge, Omaha, NE
2005 Jesús Rafael Soto, Visión en Movimiento, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Jesús Rafael Soto, Venezuela, Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Soto: A Construção da Imaterialidade, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
Soto: A Construção da Imaterialidade, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Outside Europe: Aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Daimler Contemporary, Detailed Description : Jesús Rafael Soto’s work becomes kinetic through his intricate layering of geometric designs, the physical movement of spectators, and a masterful manipulation of optical illusion. At first Soto’s pieces (difficult to classify amalgams of painting and three-dimensional or relief construction) appear to owe their impact to the geometry of Piet Mondrian or European Constructionists (Soto was an avid student of Mondrian). But then, Soto’s sense of color and design contains it own magic. Based on a simple grid of black and white vertical lines, the works are embellished by stainless steel or painted (usually in bright primary colors) squares that appear to dance before spectators’ eyes - as you contemplate them, they begin to undulate. Soto has created further three-dimensional elements by stringing monofilament into geometric background shapes and adding bent and painted steel rods to his constructions. For his retrospective at the Musee d´art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the artist constructed the first of his large Penetrables - environments of hanging plastic or metal tubes intended to be entered and displaced by the spectator, essentially rendering the pieces incomplete without viewer participation. Any detailed analysis of Soto’s work provides insight into the mind of someone driven by an, in this case engaging, obsessive-compulsive streak. Soto's work has appeared in places such as the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York City, as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. The Centre Georges Pompidou will be conducting a retrospective of his work in 2012.
Also exhibited by: Espace Meyer Zafra, Ninoska Huerta Gallery,
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Theodoros Stamos
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Jack Tworkov
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Luciano Ventrone
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Esteban Vicente
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Moto Waganari
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Andy Warhol
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Martin Willing
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Hollis Taggart President |
Debra Pesci Director |
Martin Friedrichs Director of Contemporary Art |
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