BE THERECollector's Eye: Works by Modern and Contemporary MastersPresented by Gana Art November 20, 2008- December 23, 2008Reception: November 20, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmAnthony Caro, Zeng Fanzhi, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mangold, Yue Minjun, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, Serge Poliakoff, Thomas Ruff, Robert Ryman, Cindy Sherman, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, Zhang Xiaogang, Tom WesselmannnGANA ART NEW YORK PRESENTS COLLECTOR'S EYE MODERN, POP, AND CONTEMPORARY ART NOVEMBER 20- DECEMBER 20, 2008 NEW YORK – Collector's Eye, an exhibition of painting, sculpture and photography will be on view at Gana Art New York from November 20 - December 20, Tuesday - Saturday, 10AM - 6:00PM, and by appointment. The exhibition features fifteen works from the 1960s to the present by iconic American, Chinese, Japanese and British artists. Collector's Eye encompasses pieces from Modern masters, leading figures in Pop and Minimalism, and some of the most celebrated names in art today. An opening reception will be held on November 20, from 6:00 - 8:00PM at Gana Art New York, located at 568 W. 25th St. The exhibition’s title, Collector's Eye, signals that the art on display originates from a private collection, reflecting both an individual sensibility and a focus on significant works by highly influential artists. Collectively, the exhibition describes the sweep of art's stylistic evolution over the past decades. The artists in Collector's Eye are Joan Miró, Serge Poliakoff, Robert Motherwell, Anthony Caro, Cy Twombly, Tom Wesselman, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Ruff, Zhang Xiogang, Zheng Fanzhi and Yue Min Jun. Collector's Eye begins with a bronze sculpture of a fantastic being by the poetic Spanish modernist Miró, who is currently the subject of a survey at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Miró's surrreal vision nourished the Abstract Expressionist revolution of inventive form and charged feeling, to which Poliakoff and Motherwell made unique contributions. Both Twombly and Caro were deeply affected by the freedom of Abstract Expressionism in arriving at their own personal styles. Pop Art, which rejected Abstract Expressionist gesture in favor of commercial imagery, is represented in the exhibition by two of the style's leading proponents, Tom Wesselman and Roy Lichtenstein. One of Wesselman's works focuses close-up on his best-known image, the Great American Nude, while Lichtenstein's still life combines both stylized brush strokes and his patented comic book rendering. Minimalism stripped away the exuberance of Pop with its commitment to restrained and highly reductive work. Three of its leading artists are included in Collectors Eye. Frank Stella’s series of Black Paintings from the early 1960s are among Minimalism’s iconic works, and Robert Mangold’s paintings were included in the first major museum exhibition of Minimal Art held in 1965. Robert Ryman's resolutely abstract works are distinguished by painterly nuance and the convergence of concept, material and process. All three artists have gone on to produce work that both reflected and challenged their earliest minimalist tendencies. Damien Hirst was part of the movement of Young British Artists who came to prominence in the 1990s. Hirst, whose work has been recognized for its exploration of themes of mortality and the human body, here exhibits two of his well-known abstract dot paintings. Cindy Sherman is a leading photographic artist of her generation, using herself as the subject of an ongoing series of images that explore identity as a cultural construct. Thomas Ruff from Germany is another leading conceptually-oriented photographer, who in his recent work has created haunting photographs from provocative images that he has found on the Internet. Over the past decade, the work of many Chinese artists have energized the international art scene. Yue Min Jun emerged as a member of the Cynical Realism movement in China in the early 1990s and his smiling self-portraits have become his signature motif. Zhang Xiogang is known for his delicately painted faces in tones of gray, inspired by Chinese family photographs of the 1960s and 1970s. The work of Zheng Fanzhi has often had political overtones, and has featured the human face represented with expressionist fervor.
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