Frank Stella’s sculptures
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture and Frank Stella on the Roof
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present two concurrent exhibitions featuring recent work by the renowned American artist Frank Stella (born 1936) in spring 2007.
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The first exhibition, Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture (May 1 – July 29, 2007), will explore Stella’s interest in architecture over the last decade. Showing works ranging from small models to an enormous quarter-scale mock-up, the exhibition will demonstrate how Stella’s formal concerns literally moved from painting, to wall-reliefs, to free-standing sculpture that became architecture.
This will be the Museum’s second exhibition in a series investigating the works of artists and architects; the first was Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture into Architecture (October 18, 2005 – March 5, 2006).
The second exhibition, Frank Stella on the Roof (May 1 – October 28, 2007), will consist of recent sculptures in stainless steel and carbon fiber by the artist. They will be displayed on the Iris and B. Gerald Canter Roof Garden, an open-air space atop the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing that offers spectacular views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. It will mark the tenth annual single-artist installation on the Roof Garden.
The exhibition is made possible by Bloomberg.
Additional support is provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky.
Since his first showings in New York in the 1950s, Stella has occupied an important place among New York artists and has continued to expand the boundaries of what abstract painting and sculpture can be. His fame was cemented by early retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art; Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture and Frank Stella on the Roof will mark his first exhibitions at the Metropolitan.
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture and Frank Stella on the Roof will be organized by Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Curator in Charge, and Anne L. Strauss, Associate Curator, both in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Both exhibitions will be featured on the Museum’s Web site at www.metmuseum.org
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