Antonio Asis & Costantino Nivola: Drawing Room Projects/NYC and Victoria Munroe Fine Art

February 8 - April 1, 2017
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Two Costantino Nivola sculptures of male figures, one in clay, and one in bronze, on juxtaposed pedestals.

DRAWING ROOM PROJECTS / NYC is pleased to present two exhibitions at Victoria Munroe Fine Art, "Costantino Nivola (1911- 1988): The Modern Figure" and "Antonio Asis: Paintings on Paper". Both exhibitions will be on view through April 1, 2017.

 

Antonio Asis’s first solo exhibition in New York City features three of his most important series of gouache paintings on paper. In his Cercles Concentriques, small “target” compositions of concentric circles push the dynamic relationship between the density of contiguous hues, to create startling, contemplative visual objects. The color interactions vibrate within the tension of the 6-inch square field evoking contemporary mandalas. Begun in the 1960s this series continues to engage Asis who works on them daily at his drawing table in Paris.

 

In contrast, Costantino Nivola's presentation features a selection of lyrical, small scale sculptures carved or cast from high and low materials into sensuous abstractions of the human form. Created between 1965 and 1984 in his East Hampton studio in concrete, marble, terra cotta or bronze, the intimate statues reveal Nivola’s mythic vision for sculpture.

 

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