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The Return of the Horse: Painting in the Ambivalent Present
November 14-December 26, 2009
Slought Foundation
Reception on Saturday, November 14, 2009
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Slought Foundation is pleased to announce "The Return of the Horse: Painting in the Ambivalent Present," on display in the galleries from November 14 to December 26, 2009. A few centuries ago, it was impossible to go from New York to Philadelphia without a good horse; likewise, it was impossible to document an event or display a person’s features without a good painting. Over time, painting and the horse underwent changes that distanced them from their original functions. Transportation today is no longer reliant upon horses, and contemporary art, in turn, has displaced painting from its position as the primary medium of artistic expression.
This exhibition, curated by Osvaldo Romberg of the Slought Foundation, explores the return in contemporary art to a kind of figuration that was despised and rejected by the cultural vanguardism of the twentieth century. Through a superb command of painterly techniques, the artists featured in this exhibition -- Vincent Desiderio, Natalie Frank, and Yigal Ozeri -- interrogate the role of the public in their choice of an imagery that can be seen as immediately pleasing or immediately disturbing.
Captions (repeating): Yigal Ozeri, Untitled; Jessica in the park, 2009; Vincent Desiderio, Mourning and Fecundity, 2008; Natalie Frank, Eugenie, Eugenie's Maman, Beatrice, 2009
Read the full curatorial essay
This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation.
Organized by
Osvaldo Romberg
MLA Style:
. "The Return of the Horse: Painting in the Ambivalent Present." Slought Foundation Online Content. [14 November 2009;
Accessed 8 February 2012]. <http://slought.org/content/11435/>.
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