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This retrospective exhibition introduces the work of the celebrated Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón (1889–1954) to international audiences. The exhibition is divided into sections of figurative and landscape painting, and also includes the life-sized dolls and many of the imitation practical objects that Reverón and his partner Juanita Ríos created to fill their secluded home in the small Caribbean village of Macuto. Early in his artistic career, Reverón painted coastal landscapes with monochromatic palettes imitative of the bright white light of the seashore. These highly tactile paintings are unique in early modernism, and seem to anticipate later monochromatic abstract art. Later, Reverón began to paint depictions of industrial activity in a nearby port. Reverón's figurative works seem to replicate the perceptual experience of puzzling out forms in shadowy interiors. Surprisingly, the subjects of these figure paintings were, increasingly, not human figures but Reverón's life-sized dolls.
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Armando Reverón is organized by John Elderfield, Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture.
This exhibition is organized by The Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with the Fundación Museos Nacionales of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and the Proyecto Armando Reverón, Caracas.
The exhibition and publication are made possible by Fundación Mercantil, Venezuela.
Additional funding is provided by an anonymous donor, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, and the Dale S. and Norman Mills Leff Publication Fund.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Members Events | Members Previews
Members Preview: Armando Reverón
During Museum hours
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Members Events | Members Previews
Members Preview: Armando Reverón
During Museum hours
Friday, February 9, 2007
Members Events | Members Previews
Members Preview: Armando Reverón
During Museum hours
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Members Events | Members Previews
Members Preview: Armando Reverón
During Museum hours
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Panel Discussions & Symposia | Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón: Another Modernity?
Friday, March 2, 2007
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
With Kaira Cabañas
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
With Kaira Cabañas (in Spanish)
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
With Galia Fischer
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Members Events | Members Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
With Claudia Calirman
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
With Claudia Calirman
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Members Events | Members Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Members Events | Members Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
Monday, April 2, 2007
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Brown Bag Lunch Lectures
Armando Reverón
With Nora Lawrence
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Brown Bag Lunch Lectures
Armando Reverón
With Nora Lawrence
Friday, April 6, 2007
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
With Kaira Cabañas
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
With Kaira Cabañas (in Spanish)
Monday, April 9, 2007
Concerts, Readings & Performances
Reading Reverón, Painting Poetry
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Lectures & Gallery Talks | Gallery Talks
Armando Reverón
With Claudia Calirman
Pictured above:
Armando Reverón (Venezuelan, 1889-1954), Woman of the River (La Mujer del Río), 1939. Oil on canvas, 52 x 56 7/8" (132.1 x 144.5 cm), The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fractional and promised gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of John Elderfield, 2004.
*All dates are subject to change |