The Storm King Art Center Exhibits Works By Mark di Suvero

Tuesday, 24 June 2008 00:15

MOUNTAINVILLE, NY - The Storm King Art Center presents lithographs, drawings, and indoor sculptures by Mark di Suvero through November 15. Mark di Suvero: Lithographs, Drawings, and Sculpture, a special exhibition now on view at the Storm King Art Center, includes twenty-one works by Mr. di Suvero dating from 1971 through 2003.

The exhibition, which has been organized in honor of the artist's seventy-fifth birthday, includes rarely seen lithographs and drawings related to his signature large-scale works, as well as a selection of three sculptures, all installed in the Art Center's museum building. Dynamic in form and often bold in color, the striking prints and drawings reveal how the artist uses these mediums to probe, question, and reinvent form and structure, and how these innovations in turn affect his sculptural work.

Mark di Suvero (b. 1933) is one of the most important artists to emerge from the Abstract Expressionist era. His work is in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide, and has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia, as well as in city-wide exhibitions in France, Italy, and Germany. Public sculpture by Mr. di Suvero is additionally on view in cities across the United States, from New York City, to South Bend, Indiana; St. Louis, Missouri; and Los Angeles, California.

Mr. di Suvero is a prominent Storm King artist, with major works in the permanent collection including Mon Père, Mon Père (1973-75) and Mother Peace (1969-70), both of which were reinstalled this spring, following conservation. Storm King mounted major exhibitions of di Suvero's work in 1985 and again in 1995-96 and 2005-06.

'Mozart's Birthday' by Mark di Suvero
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's bicentennial in 1991 gave the impetus to this dramatic welded-steel construction of circular elements and thrusting angles. Atop a tall sawhorse-style base a rocking form animates the sculpture, while a triangulated element in the shape of an upside-down Y lends the work physical stability and increases its visual intricacy. The combination of contained energy in the circles and release in the thrusting beams evokes not only the lively exuberance of Mozart's music but also the energetic urban commotion surrounding the Long Island City studio where di Suvero created the work. Mozart's Birthday was a welcome addition in 2000 when it was given to the Art Center by Maurice Cohen and Margo Cohen, where it is enjoyed in open fields and in full view of other major works by the artist. It complements our 65-foot Pyramidian, acquired in 1998, which is the centerpiece of our South Fields, as well as the "classic" I-beam constructions, Mother Peace (1969-70) and Mon Pere Mon Pere (1973-75). Now, more than ever, the Storm King Art Center is the prime destination for anyone interested in the work of Mark di Suvero.

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