Exhibition: Spring Fever
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 from 10:00am to 05:30pm
Mnuchin Gallery
45 East 78 Street
Mnuchin Gallery is proud to announce its forthcoming exhibition, Spring Fever, The exhibition highlights artists who have been central to the gallery’s programming over the past three decades including Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, David Hammons, Lee Krasner, Jeff Koons, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol and others.
The artworks featured in Spring Fever collectively embody the vitality and dynamism of the spring season. In Untitled, 1985, de Kooning transports us to a realm where ribbons of yellow, peach, and cobalt evoke the lushness of spring, showcasing his masterful color and the graceful flow of his late compositions. Jeff Koons’s Wall Relief with Bird beckons us into an idyllic natural paradise, teeming with life, where the symbolism of a bird pollinating large flowers carries profound themes of fertility, renewal, and the eternal cycle of existence. Meanwhile, Sturtevant’s Warhol Flowers, 1990 pays homage to Andy Warhol’s iconic silkscreen paintings by meticulously replicating his distinctive aesthetic, her playful appropriation breathing new life into Warhol’s enduring legacy and vision.
Achieved through a variety of compositional tactics that employ color, texture, and movement, the works in Spring Fever each exude intrinsic energy and emotive depth: from the dynamic brushstrokes of Joan Mitchell to the transcendent hues of Mark Rothko, or the kinetic forms of Alexander Calder––Spring Fever invites audiences to delve into the interconnected threads that have firmly established these artists as true cornerstones of art history.