"Marisol"
2001-11-16 until 2002-01-27
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE, USA United States of America

The first comprehensive overview of the artists work from the late 1950s to the present. The exhibition features 25 sculptures drawn from museums, galleries and private collections around the country. The exhibition reveals the wit, subtle humor and social satire inherent in Marisols work.

In the 1950s, Marisol developed a technique for combining painting, drawing, stenciling, casting and carving with ready-made objects. Her enigmatic assemblages combine an appealing mixture of illusion and reality, crudeness and sophistication. Although Marisol is associated with the 1960s Pop movement, her style reveals strong elements of assemblage techniques that originated in cubist ragmentation and collage.

Marisols wide range of themes and subjects frequently elude categorization. However, the vantage of time permits a view of her oeuvre that defines more clearly the varying elements that bond it together.

A fully illustrated color catalogue accompanies the exhibition with an essay written by noted art critic Eleanor Heartney. What endures in Marisols work is the universality of the impulses she captures. Truly a sculptor of modern life, she evokes the venality of social climbers, the integrity of great artists, the contradictions of the powerful and the quiet dignity of the dispossessed. She feels both their absurdity and their pain and encourages us to do the same, Heartney observes.

IMAGE
Michael B. Karas,
Rough Seas
Oil on Canvas, 30 x 40 inches
Collection of the Artist

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