CHROMATIC DIALOGUES
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- čas přidán 31. 03. 2023
- CHROMATIC DIALOGUES
Curated by Dakota Sica
March 2023 - March 2024
NEW YORK - Tower 49 Gallery is pleased to present Chromatic Dialogues, a yearlong exhibition of Abstract Expressionist and Color Field paintings. Featuring twenty-five canvases and works on paper by six internationally renowned artists - Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, Robert Motherwell, Cleve Grey, Kikuo Saito, and Friedel Dzubas - the show will open to the public on Friday, March 17, 2023, in the ground-floor lobbies and the 24th-floor Sky Lobby of Tower 49, 12 East 49th Street, New York.
Curated by Dakota Sica, Chromatic Dialogues explores the enduring vitality of Post-War painting, a 70-year legacy that remains key to the art of today. As a gallerist, curator, and collector, Sica takes a long view of art history, immersed in the era of the pioneering abstractionists while championing the work of new, young, and emerging artists. The connection between then and now is underscored by the date range of the paintings on display, from Engadin I by Friedel Dzubas (1962) to Kikuo Saito’s Rhapsody (2015).
The exhibition’s title invokes the swaths of pure pigment that form an intense aesthetic exchange among the works, bridging movements and generations. The paintings of Cleve Gray from the early 1970s unfold like cascading streams of color and light, a liquid dynamism that connects to the brushed-ink drawings on rice paper that Robert Motherwell made in his Lyric Suite series of 1965 (whose title is taken from a string quartet by Alban Berg).
Jules Olitski, whose paintings were the subject of a solo show at Tower 49, is represented by a major early example of his spray period, Gree (1966). The atmospheric quality of its massive upper portion, sitting atop a supporting gold strip, speaks directly to the dominant green passage floating above a pool of red strokes and amber washes in London Memos (1971-75), a large acrylic-on-paper by Helen Frankenthaler.
While the works of these four artists were completed within several years of each other, the paintings of Kikuo Saito and Friedel Dzubas span decades. Saito’s seven canvases, painted between 1983 and 2015, trace the artist’s evolution from minimal calligraphic strokes to networks of exuberant brushwork. The early paintings of Dzubas, whose artwork was also the subject of a solo exhibition at Tower 49 - a presentation that included the epic, 56-foot-long Crossing (1975), the largest work the artist ever made - are composed of stable, almost hard-edge forms, but by the 1980s these shapes have loosened into swirling clouds of color, dissolving any distinction between shape and stroke, idea and substance.
DAKOTA SICA is a partner of the Leslie Feely Gallery, located in New York City, and the founder/owner of The Java Project in Brooklyn. He has also been collaborating with Artnet to curate GEMS: Collecting Post-War Abstraction, an ongoing auction series. He currently serves on the board of the International Fine Print Dealers Association and is a member of the Guggenheim’s Young Collectors Council. Sica is an expert in Post-War Art, specializing in Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting.
TOWER 49 GALLERY, one of New York City’s most unique and striking contemporary art spaces, offers exhibitions free and open to the public in the street-level lobbies and on the 24th floor of its Skidmore, Owings and Merrill-designed building. Spearheaded by Ai Kato, Exhibition Director, the gallery’s mission is to originate exhibitions that challenge conventional ideas about public art, featuring such internationally acclaimed contemporary artists as Friedel Dzubas, Frank Stella, Mark Di Suvero, Shigeno Ichimura, Jules Olitski, Cordy Ryman, Michele Oka Doner, and Enrico Isamu Oyama. Tower 49 provides a sanctuary of contemplation in an extraordinary space for the public to discover the important role that art plays in our daily lives.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Mark Deutsch.
Gorgeous paintings. And what a setting! Would have been wonderful to see in person.
Thank you so much! I greatly appreciate that -- you will have to check out the next show
What a show! And it’s free. Run don’t walk.
Thank you Keith! Very much appreciated
Nice and Beautifully New paintings,
Moerden Stylish design moust, Technology, Architecture And Fine Arts,All Deasplay work Gellery view'Points ❤🎉 Thanks.😮😊
Thank you! Very much appreciated -- I am glad to hear you enjoyed it.
Your videos are elegant. Color Field is my favorite and seeing works I'd not experienced before was delightful. I hope you continue with these videos..
Thank you so much Carolina! :)
I greatly appreciate your kind words -- Color Field is my favorite too, more videos to come soon
Beautiful!! I personally love the paintings on the brown marbled wall. It gives an interesting, unique contrast to the art.
Thank you so much Azurie! Your kind words are much appreciated
@@DakotaSica You're welcome!
@@azurieone3002 :)
What a knockout show. Thank you.
Thank you Julian!
that is very much appreciated
Looks like a wonderful show. Love the title of the exhibition. I wish I could see it, unfortunately I'm living as a starving artist in rural America.
I'm sorry. I live in NYC so I can see this show. I too am an artist. Doesn't help with the starving part though. Stay strong.
Thank you for your kind words Jamo! Glad to hear you enjoyed it
Gorgeous exhibit and lovely video. I need to find my way to NYC!
Thank you Suzanne! Very much appreciated -- hope you can find your way to NYC soon!
How beautiful and big wish I can get a big big canvas. I have to come check it out soon. Love ❤️
Thank you Angela! I appreciate your kind words -- hope you can come see the show in person
@@DakotaSica thx
Masterclass
😌🙏
I wish i knew this, i passed by the building with big eyes last time i was in NY but thought it was private...
There's always next time!
Thank you Milo! Next time certainly!
That is a beautifully curated exhibition.
Thank you so much! Very much appreciated.
They're great paintings~
Thank you so much!
At 3:40 "A departure from modernism where canvas size was generally a lot smaller?" Have you seen Barnett Newman's, Vir Heroicus Sublimas?
Thank you David! Yes, exactly -- post war artists began working in monumental scale. The Newman painting you cited is a perfect example of that.
would have loved to been able to see this exhibition x
Wish you could make it!
💜LOVE DZUBAS!!!💜
Thank you Lynn! :) Me too, a great artist
@@DakotaSica Enjoyed the amazingly good fortune of being Friedel’s student
& friend at SMFA throughout the 80s. Visited him a few days before his death in ‘94 and he seemed to cheer while perusing my portfolio. He was indeed a beautiful, kind-hearted and ultra IMAGINATIVE personage. I speak with him, now, in my IMAGINATION and ask
for his brilliant advice!🗝
@@Lynne-28 what an amazing experience! So happy you were able to have time with Friedel and are keeping his memory close ☺
@@DakotaSica Whole💜edly appreciate your enthusiastic response! The Cosmos tells me that you, like dear Friedel, are a true gentleman. Mother Earth needs more kind, caring and Soulful ART LOVERS like you, so please LIVE LONGTEMPS!!!
@@Lynne-28 thank you so much for your kind words! They are greatly appreciated. And yes, I completely agree -- it is simply the only way to be. With gratitude 😌
Subbed bc i cant get to new york
Wish you could make it! Next time certainly
Hi , Do you have any catalogs available for this exhibition? Would you send to Uk ? Thank you x Jo
I will let you know if we produce one and would be happy to send if so
That marbled brown wall is a very distracting backdrop for any of these paintings. It’s hard for me to appreciate them on that wall.
Thank you for your feedback Carol!
@@DakotaSica I was going to comment on that. Seeing that you’ve taken it well is encouraging. Thanks. Marked the dates for my visit to NYC.
@@volksbahn Thank you! Excited for you to see the show
the marble wall is actually the only thing in there to appreciate.
@@Rose_333_Buds Thank you for your feedback
There is one thing modern art shows us. Bigger is not better. One cannot discuss color effectively. Because color is as individualistic as genealogy . Any description of Color is a manufactured idea. A human understanding independent of its physical makeup. What is red? What is blue? What we know is what we were told. We have no preconception other than we are told this is blue. It holds no intrinsic meaning in the general sense. I could as easily rename it octouch ( a made up word) So Art of color swatches have no context. And so have little meaning to the average human. This is an esoteric, intellectually vapid exercise in futility.
Very interesting! Thank you for your perspective
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thank you for your perspective