FRIEZE MASTERS 2012

For Frieze Masters 2012, Bruce Silverstein Gallery proposes an exhibition of photographic works by the renowned artists Constantin Brancusi, André Kertész and Aaron Siskind that examine form as subject.

In recent years, significant attention has been paid to Constantin Brancusi’s photographic works, namely those that creatively re-interpret his sculptural forms.  His avant-garde efforts in this medium are now acknowledged as radically advanced explorations of camera vision.  We will display a selection of the artist’s prints including the works; Vue d’Atelier (Oiseaux dans l’Espace), c. 1925, Mademoiselle Pogany, 1925 and Socrates, c. 1921.

The work of André Kertész holds a prominent place in the history of modern art.  Kertesz was a part of the leading artistic circles in Paris in the ‘20s and early ‘30s.  We will display a selection of prints from Kertesz’ series, Distortions, 1933—a surrealist study of two nude models posed in front of a carnival fun-house mirror.  These sculptural images became Kertesz’s most favored series and he moved to New York in 1936 buoyed by his confidence in this project—a body of work that is quite interestingly anomalistic to all his subsequent and preceding creative endeavors.

As the sole representatives of the Aaron Siskind Foundation, we continuously take efforts to call attention to Siskind’s influence as member of the original New York School of Abstract Expressionist artists whose work informed that of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell among others.  His abstract compositions created from nature or man-made forms are leading works from this important art movement.  For Frieze Masters the gallery will present Siskind’s typographical formalist study, Martha’s Vineyard Stonewall, 1954.