Art and film on the 5th floor. Terrific survey of his work from the mid-1970's to the present. More than 25 key works.including: several celebrated plate paintings (The Patients and the Doctors, 1978); paintings on velvet (Portrait of Andy Warhol, 1982) and sailcloth (Jane Birkin #2, 1990); monumental 22-by-22-foot canvasses (Anno Domini, 1990); and recent gesso-and-ink paintings on polyester, including examples from the 2006 Surfing Paintings series that Schnabel dedicated to legendary Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci. Other key cinematic figures on display include Marlon Brando, Albert Finney, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, and Rula Jebreal, with whom he wrote the screenplay for his newest film, Miral, which is based on her novel. I am not big on the plate paintings but do like the gesso and ink paintings.
EVA HESSE
Fantastic layout of Eva Hesse's studio work. a lot of her small experiments and sculptures. Really impressive.
AGNES MARTIN
A huge room of Agnes Martins white paintings. A meditative space. I had recently attended a lecture in the Douglas Hyde in Dublin on the work of Agnes Martin so was truly delighted to see this exhibition of her work.
SHARY BOYLE: FLESH AND BLOOD
Fabulous work by this acclaimed Toronto artist, delicate porcelain sculptures surprising, evocative and humourous. The porcelain at first deceptively like Dresden china pieces until you looked closely at headless wonders, strange human/beastie forms, one mother moved her children away from copulating and nightmarish scenes. But her work did not stop there. There were also installations/tableaux with overhead projectors projecting on mannikins. Really thought provoking.
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