Luxembourg & Dayan is hosting an exhibition “Salvatore Scarpitta 1956- 1964” that will be on view through December 23, 2016.The exhibition brings together the early works by Italian-American artist Salvatore Scarpitta, whose craft spanned through non-objective abstraction, radical realism, and car racing which achieved him a distinctive material daring mixed with tenderness. The exhibition focuses on the pivotal period of the artist’s career transformation from art towards constructing race-cars, which was preceded by his venture into shaped and bandaged paintings. The exhibition delves into two apparently frictional paths of the artist’s career. The works made by him during the period between 1956 and 1964 moved along a perceptible linear path of formal growth from abstract wrapped canvases to painterly assemblages incorporating automotive parts. Simultaneously his course was a recursive one with multiple intersections, junctures and syntheses. The exhibition unfolds and celebrates Scarpitta’s unique ability to exploit the unresolvable tensions between injury and regeneration, the technological and the organic, materialism and myth, a future-oriented optimism and a lingering pessimism, in works great beauty, sorrow and wit.The exhibition is on view at Luxembourg & Dayan, 64 East 77th Street, New York City. For details, visit http://www.luxembourgdayan.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition.
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