Galería Cayón is pleased to open its second season in Mahon, Menorca, with an exhibition focusing on the exploration of color through the works of Stanley Whitney (Philadelphia, 1946) and Yves Klein (Nice, 1928-Paris, 1962).
Poetry Afternoon, Stanley Whitney
2019
Whitney, whose work will appear in Galería Cayón for the first time, has been exploring the possibilities of color for several decades. In Whitney’s recent paintings, color takes center stage with off-kilter geometric areas of color filling his canvases. These spaces of color, laid out in a weave-like pattern, reflect the artist’s continued pursuit of placing color at the core of artistic creation.
800 Thoughts and Dreams, Stanley Whitney
2019
Each color expresses a living world, as Yves Klein demonstrated in his works. Klein, another major artist deeply devoted to color, shares with Whitney the conception of color as an autonomous entity. He firmly believed that color possesses a revelatory quality, offering a new vision of space through color.
In Klein’s words, “The line travels through infinity, whereas color is infinity.”
This exhibition, held in the main hall of Galería Cayón in Menorca, will include a selection of recent paintings by Stanley Whitney, as well as Yves Klein’s iconic installation, Pure Pigment. This work by Klein was first presented in 1957 at the Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris. It will be recreated for this exhibition with the support of the Yves Klein Archives.
Sun Song, Stanley Whitney
2019
The gallery will release a catalogue of the exhibition featuring a conversation between Stanley Whitney and Hans Ulrich Obrist along with images of works in the show.
Stanley Whitney works in New York (NY) and Parma (Italy). His paintings are held in public collections around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NYC), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON), and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pennsylvania).
2019
Good News Day, Stanley Whitney
2019
Notable solo exhibitions include ‘Focus: Stanley Whitney’, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas) and ‘Dance the Orange’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC). Whitney work has also been featured in prominent group shows, such as ‘Inherent Structure’, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA (2018) and Documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany (2017).
He has received numerous honors including the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize in Painting (2011), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), and he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017).
Con motivo de esta exposición se ha editado un catálogo que cuenta con la última entrevista realizada al artista unos meses antes de fallecer. En la misma, de mano del célebre comisario Jérôme Sans, Cruz-Diez recorre sus más de 50 años de creación y da las claves de su obra y sus investigaciones en torno al color. Sans, nacido en 1960, ha comisariado más de 300 exposiciones, fue el cofundador del Palais de Tokyo (París) y ha desarrollado su carrera entre Europa, Estados Unidos y Asia.
Pure Pigment Installation, Yves Klein 1957 - 2019
First exhibition at Colette Allendy Gallery, Paris, May 1957: “Yves le Monochrome”.
Pure pigment IKB
12 x 3 m.
YK064
