Collection Rotation: Bruno Fazzolari
December 12, 2011 | ByFiled under: Projects/Series
Our regular feature, Collection Rotation. Each month I invite someone to organize a mini-“exhibition” from our collection works online. Today, please welcome artist and critic Bruno Fazzolari.
Robert Ryman, _A painting of twelve strokes, measuring 11 1/4" x 11 1/4" signed at the bottom right corner_, 1961
Alfred Jensen, _Coordinative Thinking on the Square and Rectangle; Per, IV._, 1974
John Coplans, _Double Hand, Front_, 1988
Minor White, _72 North Union Street, Rochester, New York_, 1956
Robert Gober, _Untitled_, 1998
Richard Tuttle, _W-Shaped Yellow Canvas_, 1967
Gay Block, _Mother, Before and After Stroke_, 1987–89, printed 1999
Roy Lichtenstein, _Mirror I_, 1977
Sam Francis, _Untitled_, 1966–67
John Altoon, _Untitled_, from the portfolio _About Women_, 1966
December
shortest day,
longest darkness.
another year, gone;
new year coming.
endings,
beginnings again.
cold.
Rotation
threshold,
mirror,
transition.
duplication,
before/after,
cycle,
aging.
uncertainty,
renewal.
Bruno Fazzolari is an artist and critic whose work explores perception and the senses through nonrepresentational painting and, occasionally, scent and odor. His work has been collected by and exhibited at such venues as Feature Inc., Gallery Paule Anglim, the de Young Museum, and the Berkeley Art Museum. His writing appears in Art in America and ArtPractical.com.
a wonderful selection of images…robert gober is the BEST…thx
December 12th, 2011 at 10:37 amnice work bruno! i didn’t even know the museum had an alfred jensen. and the transition between the tuttle, block and lichtenstein is inspired!
December 13th, 2011 at 9:25 amBeautiful Bruno, thank you! Your palette shines through.
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March 14th, 2012 at 6:15 pm