STEPHEN ROSENTHAL
b. 1935, United StatesStephen Rosenthal, already active in New York from the second half of the 1960s, has delved from the outset into an investigation of reduction in painting with works on unstretched canvas, examined in successive cycles, all the way to the latest _Microcosms _shown here. Rosenthal paints on canvas creating; but when the work seems to be finished, a reverse process of elimination begins, using acid on the paintings, almost totally removing what had been done and leaving minimal tracks, balanced between chance and design, memories of what once existed.
He has had solo shows since the 1970s at the John Weber Gallery, New York (US); Art & Project, Amsterdam (NE); Daniel Templon, Paris (FR). His works have been shown at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NE); Kunsthalle, Basel (CH); PS1, New York (US); La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California (US); Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen (DE); Musée d’Art Moderne de la
Ville de Paris (FR); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (US), just to name a few of the occasions. His paintings are included in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York (US); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NE); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (US); Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (US); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (US); Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (US), e The Vogel Collection, New York (US).
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