Kurt Schwitters:
Sword,1930-1935, Wood painted white
NEW YORK, NY (November 11, 2011)
- Galerie
Gmurzynska is pleased to announce today the winner of
the Best Fine Art category for Kurt Schwitters sculpture
Sword (1930/1935) awarded by the
inaugural edition of Pavilion Art &
Design New York.
Exhibiting the only
two unique Kurt Schwitters sculptures still held in private hands,
Sword
(1930/1935) and Dancer (1943), this is the first time that
either
work has been publicly exhibited in New York. They are part of a small body
of
sculptural work of which the rest are held in important museum
collections
around the world. These pieces were extremely influential on the work of
Cy Twombly, who visited Galerie
Gmurzynska throughout the 1970s to study Schwitter’s sculptural
work.
Also on exhibit are
rare and important works of art, many never before seen in New York,
including
Robert Indiana’s large-scale sculpture “Indiana“
(1979), created the
year after he departed New York City and moved into seclusion on a remote
Maine
island. Three important collages from the 1930s by modern master Joan
Miró will
also be on view. Created at the most vital moment in the artist’s
career,
similar examples from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art were
recently
shown at Miró’s retrospective
at the Tate Museum in London. Contemporary works will also be represented
along
with individual works by noteworthy young artists Marco Perego and
Scott
Campbell.
The exhibition will be on view at
Pavilion of Art and Design New York, Booth
2, from November 11 – 14,
2011, 11am-8pm everyday, until 5pm on Monday,
located
at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park
Avenue, New York.
For further
information, visit www.gmurzynska.com or contact Mathias
Rastorfer at +41 44 226 7070
For media
inquiries contact STATE Public Relations, Ryan Urcia at +1
(646) 714-2520 or ryan@statepr.com
About Galerie
Gmurzynska
For more than four
decades Galerie Gmurzynska has been a leading international art
gallery,
specializing in masterpieces of
both classic modern and classic contemporary art, as well as artists of
the
Russian avant-garde.
The Galerie
Gmurzynska programs, in its three locations, seek to enliven and inform
viewers
about the most influential art of the last
century. The gallery has published over 100 scholarly books, which are
renowned
in the field of art history and form
part of major art libraries worldwide. Galerie Gmurzynska continues to
expand
its program to include the most important
artists of the 20th century and continues to build the bridge between
modern
and contemporary art.
For further
information, visit www.gmurzynska.com
About Moët Hennessy –
Pavilion of Art & Design New York Prize
This year celebrates the first edition of the Moët
Hennessy – Pavilion
of Art & Design New York prize, aimed at encouraging a fuller
understanding
of design and decorative arts while fostering new and emerging talent. The
MH
PAD New York prize will highlight three works of exceptional Design,
creativity
and quality and thus further the public’s interest and appreciation
of the
overall medium.
For more information, visit
www.padny.net
