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| THIRTEEN ANGELS: GEORGE NAMA ETCHINGS, DRAWINGS, SCULPTURE & POETRY BY ALFRED BRENDEL April 2 - May 15, 2004 Opening Reception: April 2, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. The works of New York artist George Nama will be featured in an exhibition of drawings, etchings and bronze sculptures inspired by the poetry of his friend and collaborator, Alfred Brendel, the renowned pianist and author. Brendel’s poetry, accompanied by the art works created by Nama, serves as the basis of this collaborative art exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles, entitled "Thirteen Angels" which opens on April 2 and extends through May 15. Alfred Brendel’s poems in German, along with their English translations, book-end the thirteen Nama etchings and accompanying gouaches, along with thirteen sculptures in this exhibition titled "Thirteen Angels." This show is complemented by its companion and previous Brendel-Nama collaboration called "Devils&Mac226; Pageant." |
 George Nama, “Untitled”, 2002, bronze, 13 3/4” high |
| George Nama’s works give apt expression to Brendel’s mischievous verses, which the distinguished critic and Academie Francaise member Yves Bonnefoy, declares to be "what angels and devils look like...beautiful images...now the happy consequence of this inquiry into our inner self." Alfred Brendel is the world-famous pianist who is performing in Los Angeles at Disney Hall on March 29 and April 1, 3, 4, 6 and 9. Brendel is also a celebrated writer, whose latest work, titled "Thirteen Angels," ponders a multiplicity of angel personas and manifestations. Brendel’s sly observations catch these heavenly creatures in some very human behaviors. The Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic declares that, in these poems, "Brendel achieves the impossible. He makes these ethereal spirits more recognizable . . . full of contradictions as we are . . . unmistakably . . . he knows them through and through." An opening reception, Friday, April 2 from 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. with both George Nama and Alfred Brendel in attendance will feature a poetry reading by Mr. Brendel. In addition to a limited-edition artist’s book containing original etchings and poetry signed by both artists, a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue will be available, with introductory essays by Charles Simic and Yves Bonnefoy. The exhibition extends from April 2 through May 15. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts is located at 357 North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.; Saturday 10:00 - 5:00. For additional information, please phone (323) 938-5222. |
| FRANCISCO ZUNIGA: RARE PAINTINGS ON CANVAS & A SURVEY OF ORIGINAL GRAPHICS ONLINE CATALOGUE Catalogue Raisonne Volume II now available! January 16 - March 13, 2004 Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 16, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. A significant exhibition entitled "Francisco Zuniga: Rare Paintings on Canvas & A Survey of Original Graphics" will feature one of Mexico's major 20th century artists at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, opening January 16 and extending through March 13, 2004. This major exhibition represents the first time that Zuniga's oils have been exhibited in the United States, and highlights these extremely rare paintings along with a survey of his original graphic works on paper. Here, as in his iconic sculptures, Zuniga's imagery celebrates life and its expression through the female form. |
 Francisco Zuñiga, "Carmen" 1935, oil on canvas 28 x 21 inches |
| This museum quality exhibition is accompanied by the new publication of "Francisco Zuniga, Catalogue Raisonne: Volume II, Oil Paintings & Original Prints, 1927-1986." This beautifully printed and definitive hardcover book contains 375 illustrations, along with essays by Ariel Zuniga (the artist's son) and by Andrew Vlady (master lithographer who often collaborated with Zuniga). In addition, the book includes an appendix of additions to Catalogue Raisonne: Sculpture, Volume I. Collectively, this two volume reference set documents Zuniga's vast oeuvres and is available through the gallery. Born in Costa Rica, Francisco Zuniga moved to Mexico in 1936, where his work increasingly gained wide recognition throughout Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, making Zuniga Mexico's most internationally collected artist. His works are included in major museum collections throughout the world. While his works were acquired by major American museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York in the beginning of the 1940s, it is notable that Zuniga's importance was early realized in California, where his reputation and legions of collectors - both private and institutional - has been particularly formidable for decades. Monumental sculptures by Zuniga can be found at entrances and sculpture gardens of important Southern California museums such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA Sculpture Gardens, USC, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, and the San Diego Museum of Art. "Francisco Zuniga: Rare Paintings on Canvas & A Survey of Original Graphics" opens January 16 and extends through March 13, 2004 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery, located at 357 N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:00 - 6:00; Saturday 10:00 - 5:00. For additional information, phone (323) 938-5222. Related Event: A book signing and gallery discussion with Ariel Zuñiga, will be presented on February 13, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. |
| “It’s Not the Size that Counts: Treasures Big & Small” November 8 - December 24, 2003 Opening Reception: November 8, 4-7 p.m. An ambitious exhibition of 150 paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture, entitled “It’s Not the Size that Counts: Treasures Big & Small” will be featured in this biennial exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, opening November 8 and extending through December 24. The exhibition offers an opportunity for the seasoned collector as well as beginning collectors to consider a wide range of significant works of art, as the exhibition includes an eclectic range of paintings, sculpture, and original prints and drawings spanning the late 19th century through recent works. |
| Among the artists included are: Edward Kienholz, David Hockney, Donald Sultan, Frank Stella, Sam Francis, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Graham, Jerome Witkin, Patrick Graham, Ruth Weisberg, Willem DeKooning, Hans Burkhardt, Alexander Calder, Arshile Gorky, Gaston Lachaise, Francisco Zúñiga, Gunther Gerzso, Rufino Tamayo, Lorser Feitelson, Man Ray, Hundertwasser, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Marc Chagall, George Grosz, Käthe Kollwitz, Henri Matisse, Maurice Denis, Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others. “It’s Not the Size that Counts: Treasures Big & Small” opens with a reception on November 8, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. and extends through December 24, at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, located at 357 N. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For further information phone (323) 938-5222. |
| MAJOR ART EXHIBITION - A TIMELY REFLECTION REQUIEM FOR WAR: PAINTINGS by HANS BURKHARDT July 11 through October 25, 2003 Opening reception: Friday, July 11, 7-9pm Los Angeles, CA. - In a poignant survey of an artist's life-long reflection on the subject, "Requiem for War: Paintings by Hans Burkhardt" will open at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, 357 North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, Friday, July 11 and extends through October 25, 2003. "Requiem for War" is a landmark survey of Hans Burkhardt's war paintings. The exhibition features an extraordinary range of work from 1938 to 1993, in which Burkhardt employed his abstract expressionist symbolism to explore the furthest emotional ranges of his responses to, and perceptions of, war from the Spanish Civil War and World War II through the Vietnam War, Desert Storm, and the conflicts of Latin America and the Middle East. |
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This exhibition is presented at a time when attention is increasingly being afforded art that deals with humanist issues, although relatively few artists directly confront war. While some major artists have addressed this subject, most notably Picasso in his "Guernica," their efforts stand as rare statements in their bodies of work. In this respect, Burkhardt may be unique. Well known for his celebratory expressionist paintings of the figure and landscape throughout the length of his long artistic career, Burkhardt also created in parallel an unique body of work reacting to man's violence against his fellow man. According to some historians, this body of more than two hundred paintings is unprecedented in its impact and scale. Art historian and critic Donald Kuspit has called Burkhardt's paintings "among the greatest war paintings - especially modern war paintings, made." In a landmark and courageous show of Burkhardt's war paintings held in 1968 during the height of the Vietnam War at the San Diego Museum of Art, the late historian Dr. Eugene Anderson called Burkhardt "Goya's spiritual heir" who "metamorphoses the experience of war and violence into works of beauty" that "unites an exquisite appreciation of this world and a profound awareness of the nearness of the next world." In his 1991 essay on the artist's "Desert Storm" series, the eminent art historian and curator Peter Selz wrote that Burkhardt "has created some extraordinary paintings . . . executed with a masterful craftsmanship comparable to Goya's . . ." Burkhardt's 'war paintings' have received considerable attention in recent years. They were the centerpiece of a 'politics and art' symposium and exhibition held at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Currently, as part of its "Disarming Parables" exhibition, the San Jose Museum of Art is showing (through June 29, 2003) Burkhardt's monumental painting "My Lai," which incorporates actual human skulls collaged onto the surface of the painting. Burkhardt will be included in the national touring exhibition, "Next Stop Vietnam: California and the Nation Transformed" organized and scheduled to open at the Oakland Museum, August 27, 2004. Burkhardt was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1904. He emigrated to New York in 1924, where he shared Arshile Gorky's studio for the better part of the years 1927-37. When he moved to Los Angeles in 1937, Burkhardt represented the most significant bridge between New York and Los Angeles, in that his paintings of the 1930's are part of the genesis of American Abstract Expressionism. Selz has noted "while working alongside Gorky, Burkhardt met DeKooning or 'Master Bill', as he was called by Gorky. Born in 1904, they each arrived respectively from Armenia, Holland, and Switzerland. Simultaneously working in Greenwich Village, they discovered new ways of painting which would move art in America beyond European tradition." In 1992, two years before his death, Burkhardt was honored for his lifetime achievement by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Since his passing, Hans Burkhardt's works have been featured in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. Internationally, his works were recently included in a major exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland in an exhibition featuring the most important artists to have emerged from that city spanning nearly 600 years. The Irish Museum of Modern Art and the British Museum in London are among those institutions that have featured Burkhardt works in exhibitions of recent museum acquisitions. Burkhardt will be the subject of an exhibition celebrating the centennial of his birth organized by the Orange County Museum of Art running from September 2004 through January 2005. Burkhardt's significance to American contemporary art is increasingly recognized. Recently, his work has been the subject of numerous publications, affirming the expanding awareness of that contribution; including the just-published survey, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s (New York School Press), Bram Dijkstra's new book Expressionism in America (Abrams), and Peter Selz's forthcoming book, The Art of Political Engagement (Princeton Univ. Press). "Requiem for War: Paintings by Hans Burkhardt" opens with a reception on Friday, July 11 from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m., in conjunction with the launch of the L.A. International Invitational, the city-wide art event. The exhibition runs through September 30. In related special events at the gallery, Peter Selz, author of the forthcoming book on politics in art, will present an educational discussion related to the Burkhardt exhibition on Friday, July 25, 7:30 p.m. Also on Friday, September 5 at 7:30 p.m., author Bram Dijkstra will discuss and sign his new book, Expressionism in America, which features Burkhardt's work. Other events to be announced. Read the article by John O'Brien from ArtScene's July/August, 2003 edition. |
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