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Francesco Polenghi

Francesco Polenghi, a painter whose unusual life course meant that his public career as an artist began only when he was in his late sixties, has died in his hometown of Milan at the age of eighty-four. Polenghi attended New York University, where despite his early interest in art he graduated with a degree in economics in 1961. He remained in New York until 1966, before returning to Italy.

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Günther Uecker

For the first exhibition at their new Parisian location, Lévy Gorvy has adorned the large gallery with a series of six monumental and lyrical minimalist paintings by Group Zero’s Günther Uecker—mural-like in their consistent scale and limited blue and white palette—along with an array of small watercolors.

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Jean-Michel Othoniel

Jean-Michel Othoniel is a contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media. Employing materials such as glass, wax, and sulphur, Othoniel explores ideas of material transformation. “I want to seduce you with their beauty then lead you to other themes,” he has explained of his work. I would agree they are seductive as I’m writing this blog after ogling the work below.
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Fernand Léger

When I first began painting again in 2018 I found myself looking back in time a good bit. I don’t recall spending a lot of time on Léger in undergrad- the new found interest had to do with both his heavy use of black and the way he breaks up space (to me his paintings live in a space between being pre-Greenbergian surfaces and complex, implied spaces).

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