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Nancy Spero

NANCY SPERO

The Warriors Galerie Lelong 14 March–11 May 2019 13 Rue de Téhéran, Paris
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The question of violence is a recurrent theme in the work of Nancy Spero (1926—2009): the violence of war (her memorable War Drawings at the time of the Vietnam War), symbolic or physical violence against women and minorities (she was one of the first to fight publicly for the place of women in the art world), the legitimate violence of resistance movements (against the Nazis, against Pinochet) and poetic and expressive violence (Artaud). Whether she was evoking a specific conflict or producing a transhistorical summary, Nancy Spero knew how to assemble and combine images taken from a variety of sources to produce dynamic works with a force that has remained intact and has now become part of art history.

This exhibition not only includes a 4 meters long frieze, The Warriors, presented unframed as the artist preferred, but also a number of works produced over three decades (1966 to 1996).

Born in Cleveland (Ohio) in 1926, Spero studied in Chicago then in Paris, where she lived from 1959 to 1964 with her husband, the painter Leon Golub. Her works form part of the collections of major international museums including the MoMA, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The National Gallery of Canada, the MNAM Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf; the Reina Sofia, Madrid and more. An exhibition of her work is being presented for the first time in Mexico, at Museo Tamayo, until 17 February 2019. A roaming retrospective retracing her career in detail will open this summer in the Folkwang Museum in Essen, moving to Skärhamn in Sweden then Humlebæk in Denmark and finally Lillehammer in Norway.

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Nancy Spero was born in 1926 in Cleveland, USA. Died in 2009.

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About the Gallery
Galerie Lelong is located in Paris and New York. It was founded by Jacques Dupin, Daniel Lelong and Jean Frémon.

The Paris gallery has been exhibiting recent works from artists of international standing since 1981. The 1980s were notable for artists who went on to become household names, including Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Paul Rebeyrolle, Pierre Alechinsky, but also for the next generation of artists: Konrad Klapheck, Jan Dibbets, Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, Nicola De Maria and Jan Voss.

In the 1990s, the gallery hosted artists who represented major movements in contemporary art: Sean Scully, Günther Förg, Andy Goldsworthy, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Antonio Saura. The gallery also increased international recognition of the work of Ana Mendieta.

Since the turn of the century, Galerie Lelong has accentuated the geographical and expressive diversity of its artists: from sculpture and objects by Jaume Plensa, David Nash, Wolfgang Laib, Kiki Smith, Rebecca Horn, Barry Flanagan to installations by Barthélémy Toguo and Lin Tianmiao, without forgetting painting, namely David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Kate Shepherd, Nalini Malani, Nancy Spero, Juan Uslé, Leon Kossoff.

Galerie Lelong has a large publishing department which produces and distributes engravings, lithographs, digital prints and multiple objects, and collates these works in catalogues raisonnés.

It produces monumental sculptures to order for public spaces and private clients.

The gallery is present at the leading international contemporary art fairs (Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Hong Kong, Fiac Paris, Frieze London, Frieze New York, Arco Madrid, Art Brussels, Expo Chicago...).

The directors of the gallery are Jean Frémon, Daniel Lelong and Patrice Cotensin in Paris and Mary Sabbatino in New York.
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13 rue de Téhéran
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Tues - Fri, 10.30am - 6pm
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Paris 13 rue de Téhéran
Galerie Lelong contemporary art gallery in 13 Rue de Teheran Paris France
Galerie Lelong
13 rue de Téhéran, Paris, France
+33 145 631 319
http://www.galerie-lelong.com

Opening hours
Tues - Fri, 10.30am - 6pm
Sat, 2pm - 6.30pm
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