Kasmin Gallery

Our online viewing room for Robert Polidori: Total Gnosis Enigma is now live! Explore the works here: https://bit.ly/3ejhvYc The exhibition features the artist’s large-scale color photographs of the ancient frescoes found among the ruins of Pompeii, Italy. Depicted in many of the works in the series is the Villa dei Misteri, a well-preserved dwelling on the outskirts of the city famous for its exquisite frescoes clustered in one room. These artworks, originating from 7060 B...C and restored between 201315, are among the best known of the relatively rare survivals of Ancient Roman painting and are understood to portray the rites of a young woman as she is inducted into the mystical cult of Bacchus. Total Gnosis Enigma opens at 297 Tenth Avenue this Thursday, April 22 and will remain on view through May 15. Image: Robert Polidori, Villa dei Misteri #2, Pompeii, Italia, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond. Courtesy of the artist. #robertpolidori #photography #photograph #pompeii #frescoes #kasmin

Today we are wishing a happy birthday to artist #BernarVenet. Known for his monumental metal sculptures, as well as his material exploration of coal, asphalt, and tar, for which he first gained recognition in the 1960s, Venet has continually committed to a process-based investigation into the physical materials he deploys, along with the mathematical and philosophical implications of form and line. In 2019, Kasmin presented Indeterminate Hypothesis, an exhibition featuring ...five gargantuan sculptures composed of raw bars of steel, each of which form unscripted configurations. The resulting spirals of tightly wound, inextricable loops of industrial material open a doorway to fundamental principles such as indeterminacy, chance, accident, unpredictability, chaos and, even, incompleteness, says the artist. Image: Photo by Diego Flores. #bernarvenet #venet #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #monumentalsculpture #kasmin #artistbirthdays

Don't miss our Barry Flanagan exhibition in the #KasminSculptureGarden, which closes this weekend. Representing significant examples of the artist’s later work featuring his signature motif of the hare, the exhibition is viewable from The High Line Large Monument (1996), pictured here, draws on the work of Auguste Rodin, in an homage to the monumental Gates of Hell (18801971). Dr. Jo Melvin, Director of the Estate of Barry Flanagan, says of the sculpture: It has a material ...and visceral quality that responds to Rodin’s handling and uses a tactile sensibility to create an inventive transformation of his composition. [...] Rodin’s angst-ridden Three Shades become three virile dancing Nijinski hares, modelled in clay and using Rodin’s own triumphant subject of the celebrated dancer as a refutation in the face of the gates of hell." Image: Installation view of Barry Flanagan in the Kasmin Sculpture Garden. #barryflanagan #sculpture #publicsculpture #thehighlinenyc #kasmin #barryflanaganestate

Matvey Levenstein's delicate and exquisitely rendered paintings explore themes of history and representation. His paintings and works on paper are filtered through the most traditional painterly genresthe landscape, the still life, and the portraitand are imbued with a distinctly literary sensitivity. Working with a limited palette on toned grounds, Levenstein’s distinctive compositions are characterized by the layers of paint built up and scraped back slowly and meticulou...sly over many months, and by their foregrounding of nature in all its dramatic variety: the looming power of a stormcloud, tree branches dissecting a winter sky, or more quietly, a vase of cut flowers sitting on a glass table. In September, an exhibition of new work by Levenstein will go on view at our 509 West 27th Street location. Image: Matvey Levenstein, Beach flowers, 2020, oil on linen, 14 x 18 inches, 35.6 x 45.7 cm. Courtesy of the artist. #matveylevenstein #painting #painter #contemporarypainting #landscape #kasmin

Robert Polidori: Total Gnosis Enigma opens next Thursday, April 22 at our 297 Tenth Avenue location. The new exhibition presents the artist’s large-scale color photographs of the ancient frescoes found among the ruins of Pompeii and Oplontis in Italy. Taken in 2017 and exhibited in North America for the first time, the works continue Polidori’s lifelong investigation into the spiritual and psychological resonance of architecture and interior spaces. Learn more: https://www.k...asmingallery.com/exhibiti/robert-polidori-2021 Image: Robert Polidori, Hercules Fresco, Villa of Poppea, Oplontis, Italia, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond. Courtesy of the artist. #robertpolidori #photography #contemporaryphotography #photograph #pompei #oplontis #kasmin

"When I didn’t know what color to put down, I put down black. Black is a force: I used black as a ballast to simplify the construction. #HenriMatisse Our current exhibition, Matisse in Black and White, focuses on the artist's use of the achromatic colors. Comprising some twenty-five rigorously selected artworks, the exhibition aims to facilitate what one might term slow looking, a fundamental principle that informed and nourished Matisse throughout his long career. ... Matisse in Black and White remains on view through December 19 at our 297 Tenth Avenue location. To schedule your visit, click the link below (appointments are recommended, though not required): https://www.kasmingallery.com/reservations/297 Images: Installation view of Matisse In Black and White at Kasmin. November 12December 19, 2020. Photo by Christopher Stach. 2020 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. #matisse #painting #drawing #blackandwhite #kasmin

Join us today in conversation on Zoom at 1pm EDT with Dr. Jo Melvin, the Director of the Estate of Barry Flanagan, artist Jamie Nares, and curator Alex Bacon. The panelists will discuss the life and work of Flanagan in celebration of the ongoing exhibition of work by the Welsh sculptor, which has recently been extended through to April 2021. On view in the Kasmin Sculpture Garden, the three large-scale bronze works represent significant examples of the artist’s later work fe...aturing his signature motif of the hare. Access the Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81540917285 Image: Installation view of Barry Flanagan in the Kasmin Sculpture Garden. 2020 The Estate of Barry Flanagan. Photo by Diego Flores. #barryflanagan #kasmin #sculpture #sculpturegarden #kasminsculpturegarden

Today we are thinking of #StuartDavis, who was born on this day in 1892. Over the course of his prolific career, which spanned the early 20th century through the post-war era, Davis developed a distinct visual language that fused Cubism and high-art with his own pioneering motifs of consumerism and the syncopated rhythms of jazz. By the mid 1920s, already well known for his use of vivacious color, Davis started executing compositions in black and white and continued to utili...ze a restrained and meaningful vocabulary of shapes. In 2018, Kasmin presented Lines Thicken: Stuart Davis in Black and White, which highlighted his mastery of composition and line. "Davis took drawn line not for a walk, in the stated manner of Paul Klee, but for canters and gallops, with any willing viewer delightedly astride," wrote Peter Schjedahl in a review of the exhibition. Images: Installation view of Lines Thicken: Stuart Davis in Black and White at Kasmin. September 13December 22, 2018. Photos by Chris Stach. #stuartdavis #modernism #kasmin #artistbirthdays

Driven by an enduring fascination with the materiality of paint, #IanDavenport's signature technique delivers elegant vertical lines down tilted panels into rich puddles of color. The artist's control is evident in the carefully composed series of colors that populate his paintings, which are experiments in color relationships guided by his intuition and mastery of the subject. Davenport often uses the colors in historical work as a reference point to initiate his own color ...sequences and explorations of movement, surface and light. In so doing, he questions how color gives shape to a picture, helping to structure the background and foreground in representational pictures, and produce rhythm and dynamism in abstract art. View our current exhibition of work by the artist, Sequence, through January 9, 2021 at our 509 West 27th Street location, or explore online by clicking the link below: https://bit.ly/2K6nkwS Image: Ian Davenport, Spring (Bluebonnet) (detail), 2018, acrylic on aluminum (six panels with additional floor section), 129 7/8 x 236 1/4 x 39 3/8 inches, 330 x 600 x 100 cm. Courtesy of Ian Davenport Studio. #painting #painter #abstractart #abstractpainting #kasmin

Discover our online presentation for Art Basel Miami Beach, which is open to the public now through Sunday, December 6. Browse a curated, rotating selection of work in a complementary viewing room on our website, featuring artists including Alma Allen, Theodora Allen, JB Blunk, Ian Davenport, Max Ernst, Jane Freilicher, David Hockney, Lee Krasner, Henri Matisse, James Nares, Robert Polidori, George Rickey, Jan-Ole Schiemann, Bosco Sodi, Naama Tsabar, and Bernar Venet. View h...ere: https://bit.ly/36mMgsM To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works, please contact the gallery at [email protected]. Image: Theodora Allen, The Egg No. 3, 2020, oil on linen, 20 x 16 inches, 50.8 x 40.6 cm. #theodoraallen #artbaselovrmb #artbasel #painting #kasmin #contemporaryart