La
sede newyochese di Hauser & Wirth presenta, con la curatela di David
Rosenberg, una grande selezione delle opere dalla Collezione Sylvio Perlstein,
più di 350, sotto il titolo "Una lotta continua". Sviluppata su tre
piani un esempio di collezionismo articolato e ben strutturato nei collegamenti
fra opere ed estetica. Si attraversano praticamente tutte le tendenze del
novecento artistico, Dada, Surrealismo, Astrazione, Land Art, Arte concettuale,
Arte minimal, Pop Art, Op Art, Arte Povera, Nouveau Réalisme fino all'arte più
contemporanea. Particolarmente ricca è anche la sezione fotografica con 150 scatti tra cui quelli di Eugène Atget,
Brassaï, Claude Cahun, André Kertész, Henri Cartier-Bresson e Man Ray.
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Unfolding
across all three floors of Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street location, ‘A Luta
Continua’ is the first United States presentation of the Sylvio Perlstein
Collection. Over the course of more than five decades, Perlstein has assembled
an intensely personal collection rooted in a passion for the work of
groundbreaking artists; a commitment to self-education; and an affinity for a
wide range of mediums. Remarkably diverse, the Collection traces the course of
twentieth-century art, from Dada and Surrealism to Abstraction, Land Art,
Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Pop Art, Op Art, Arte Povera, Nouveau Réalisme,
and Contemporary Art. But above all, ‘A Luta Continua’ testifies to the power
of connoisseurship and to collecting as a talent – an
art in itself – that must be honed through sustained,
sometimes courageous, and often joyful personal effort.
Curated
by David Rosenberg, ‘A Luta Continua’ takes its title from South African artist
Thomas Mulcaire’s eponymous neon sculpture, which translates from Portuguese as
‘the struggle continues’ and hangs on the façade of Perlstein’s home. The
exhibition presents more than 360 works by some 250 artists. Among these are
Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Diane Arbus, Hans Bellmer, André Breton, Marcel
Broodthaers, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Hannah Höch, Jenny
Holzer, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, René Magritte, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Brice
Marden, Robert Morris, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Robert
Smithson, Jean Tinguely, and Andy Warhol.
In
addition to significant concentrations in the areas of Minimalism and Pop Art,
a highlight of the Perlstein Collection, featured prominently in this
exhibition, is an exceptional ‘collection within the collection’ of
twentieth-century photography. On view will be over 150 works by such pioneers
of the medium as Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Claude Cahun, André Kertész, Germaine
Krull, and László Moholy-Nagy, as well as revered figures Diane Arbus, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Dora Maar, and Man Ray, with
whom Perlstein maintained a close friendship until the artist’s death in 1976.
The exhibition presents more than a dozen works by Man Ray that span the
photographer’s career, including his Rayographs ‘Untitled’ (1923) and ‘La
Colifichet’ (1923), as well as his startling portraits of early
twentieth-century French luminaries such as ‘Antonin Artaud’ (1929) and Marcel Duchamp,
‘La Tonsure’ (1919).
