Leon Golub: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Rückblick exhibition
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The work of Leon Golub (Chicago, 1922–New York, 2004) presents a challenge to the dominant model of art development after 1950. Unconcerned with the experimentation with media that characterized artistic production in those decades, his work proposes a pictorial renewal in which genres thought to be exhausted, such as history painting and portraiture, regain an unexpected expressive and critical capacity. His evolution is also somewhat paradoxical, rendering the debate between abstraction and figuration irrelevant: his time in Paris with his partner, the artist Nancy Spero, between the late 1950s and early 1960s, is characterized by following the guidelines of the abstract informalism of Michel Tapié and Jean Dubuffet, evolving toward spaces in which his work gradually embraces a more traumatic realism.
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