 Untitled (Indian 1), 2002 oil and wax on canvas, 90" x 84" (228.6 x 213.4 cm) Julian Schnabel New Indian Paintings and Selected Sculpture "New Indian Paintings and Selected Sculpture" consists of seven recent paintings and five bronze sculptures from the late 1980s. The paintings include five portraits, oil and wax on canvas, of early 20th century Indian Chiefs. The bronze sculptures are totemic. Over the past three decades Schnabel has used his peripatetic lifestyle to seek out imagery for his work. Beginning with a trip to Europe in the late 1970s, during which he traveled to Germany, Italy, and Spain, where he encountered the architecture of Antonio Gaudi, to his later travels to Cuba and Mexico, the artist has found and continually integrated subject matter from various civilizations and cultures into his work. "There's an ethnographic appearance to certain kinds of marks, certain kinds of materials, things that are in common or common in these different places in the world, that carry cultural, religious, political implications… they carry the very loaded resonance of this simultaneity of time that informs our understanding of our own existence", Schnabel commented in a 1989 interview about the effect travel has had on his work. In his most recent paintings, Schnabel returns to these ethnographic subjects. The Indian Paintings reflect his continued interest in the use of cultural imagery as source material, which Schnabel assimilates and translates into his paintings. Since 1976 when Schnabel had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the artist has been the subject of over 100 one-person shows internationally. In January 2004, there will be a major survey of Schnabel's work on view at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. The exhibition will travel to the Reina Sofia at the Palacio Velasquez, Madrid. October 17 - November 15, 2003 Hours: Tue-Sat 10am - 6pm PaceWildenstein 534 W. 25th St. USA-New York, NY 10022 Telephone + 1 212 929 7000 Fax + 1 212 929 7001 E-Mail info@pacewildenstein.com www.pacewildenstein.com |
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