Having turned 93 this past December, the iconic «painter of black» French artist Pierre Soulages would be highly
deserving of a major retrospective; but his current show «21st - Century Soulages,» on view at the French Academy in the Villa Medici in Rome through June 16, is in fact devoted to recent work.
Not exact matches
We are pleased to partner with the Walker Art Center in the organization
of the first
major retrospective of the artist's career, adding to new curatorial insight and broadening public understanding
of an artist whose work
deserves even greater national and international recognition,» said Maxwell L. Anderson, the DMA's Eugene McDermott Director.
Yet while he was revered in Britain by the cognoscenti, and had a number
of major retrospectives (at the Tate in 1973, the Serpentine Gallery in 1995, the Underground Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2005 and the Tate's Duveen Galleries in 2006) he never gained the wider recognition here that many felt he
deserved.
A few
of her gender - based parodies, which prefigure Cindy Sherman's, are present, but it reminds one that this is an artist
deserving of a
major museum
retrospective.