ACF RECOMMENDS | Exhibition Frederick Kiesler | Off The Wall THURSDAY MAR 11, 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM |
Jason McCoy Gallery presents FREDERICK KIESLER: OFF THE WALL, on view from March 11 to May 1, 2010 from Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 AM to 06:00 PM. Focusing on the artist's vision of space, the exhibition will be comprised of three Endless House sculptures, several Galaxy paintings, three Grotto for Meditation models, as well as Kiesler’s master drawing of Marcel Duchamp.
Frederick Kiesler was born in 1890 in Tschernovitz, formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which today belongs to the Ukraine. He studied at the Technische Hochschule (1908-09) and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (1910-1912) in Vienna. In the following years, he was heavily engaged in theatre, in both Vienna and Berlin, designing stages and choreographing performances. He became a member of the De Stijl group in 1923 and in the following year, he arranged the world premiere of the 16-minute film Ballet mécanique directed by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, with Man Ray, in Vienna. Kiesler moved to New York City in 1926, where he remained until his death in 1965. He collaborated here with the Surrealists, including Marcel Duchamp. Today his works on paper and documents are in the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Foundation in Vienna. In 1989, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, hosted a Kiesler retrospective and in 1996, the Centre Georges Pompidou exhibited “Frederick Kiesler: artiste-architecte."
VENUE
James McCoy Gallery
41 E 57th St, NYC 10022
For further information, please check www.jasonmccoyinc.com.
