Steinmetz—Contemplating Gogol
(Works on Paper 2001 - 2009)
The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Moscow, Russia
December 1, 2009 - January 10, 2010
Steinmetz—Contemplating Gogol is the ideal next chapter to the dialogue that began with the 2007 landmark exhibit at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts — Art in America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation — which stimulated new interest in American art. The Steinmetz exhibit continues the theme of innovation, while at the same time offering new interpretations of Russian culture itself.
The year 2009 commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Gogol, the brilliant literary source and inspiration for Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. This is only the second time in over fifty years that there has been a solo exhibit by an American artist at the Pushkin Museum.
The exhibit, composed of eighty-one works on paper, some in black and white and some in color, range in size from 4" x 6" to 24" x 32." There are nine series — each a lyrical response to the life, works, and world of Nikolai Gogol.
SERIES EXHIBITED
- The Portrait
- (10 pieces)
- The Diary of a Madman
- (12 pieces)
- The End of Pompeii
- (4 pieces)
- Temptations of St. Anthony
- (4 pieces)
- Theater
- (28 pieces)
- Commedia dell’arte
- (3 pieces)
- Walpurgis Night
- (4 pieces)
- Insects of the Apocalypse
- (12 pieces)
- Hades
- (4 pieces)
Click here to view representative works from the upcoming exhibit.