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Fisher Gallery proudly hosts an exhibition of Julio González’s sculptures and drawings as the inaugural event of its fall season.
Julio González—one of the foremost modernist artists in Europe during the first part of the twentieth century—pioneered the use of welded iron as an artistic material.
González had a significant influence on Pablo Picasso and other renowned sculptors who came after, such as David Smith, Mark di Suvero, and Anthony Caro. And yet González, whose work is so respected in Europe, is one of the least known masters of the twentieth century in the United States.
“Julio González: Sculpture and Drawings from the IVAM Collection” is co-curated by Dr. Selma Holo, director of Fisher Gallery, and Dr. Ángel Kalenberg, director of the Museum of Modern Art in Montevideo, Uruguay. It showcases 43 rarely-seen works, all from the important collections of IVAM (Valencia Institute of Modern Art). Although bronze and iron sculpture prevails, the show also includes reliefs, jewelry and drawings. This survey illustrates a career that was affected by the great movements of European modern art, including Modernism, Cubism, and Constructivism. González, however, never aligned with any single style. He developed his own distinct idiom inspired by his talent for drawing, his exceptional skills at welding, and his veneration for the human form. Bilingual catalogue (Spanish/English).
“Albert Contreras: Luminous Scapes and Environments” displays over 90 paintings from the past five years by the Santa Monica artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Contreras painted in the Minimalist Geometric tradition of the Los Angeles Abstract Classicists. Albert Contreras quit making art in 1972, when the minimalist doctrine that “less is more” forced him into a creative dead-end. Contreras resumed painting in 1997, immediately showing a radical new style, which speaks of his artistic maturity. This recent body of work, rigorously abstract and geometric, explores the subtle symbiosis of color, scale, and size of image in conjunction with thick impastos of glossed gel paint, with a surprising taste for glitter and bubblegum colors. Curated by Max F. Schulz. Catalogue.
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