"Painters Progress", 1981, 294,5 x 236,2 cm. Col. MoMA
Era um dos artistas actuais que mais curiosidade me despertavam, e tinha comprado há dias na FNAC o catálogo da retrospectiva apresentada em 2005/06 no MOMA (e também no IVAM de Valência no passado verão, na que foi a sua 1ª retrospectiva na Europa). Robert Storr foi o comissário e o autor do extenso estudo publicado.
Morreu no domingo, dia 13 de Agosto, em Nova Iorque; nascera em 1940 (6 de Set.) em Chicago, onde se formou em 1962. 1ª retrospectiva em 1987 no Museu de Dallas.
Não há nenhuma obra sua na Colecção Berardo, mas ficaria bem na companhia de Frank Stella e Shirley Jaffe, a quem "seguiu" na procura de novos caminhos abstractos fora dos limites modernistas e das restrições minimalistas. Os recortes esculturais e a cor explosiva, com formas orgânicas e referências figurativas, e a presença forte do humor, distinguem a sua pintura desde meados dos anos 70.
A retrospectiva do MoMA em 2005, com 65 anos, foi a primeira mostra monográfica do Departamento de Pintura desde a reabertura do Museu no ano anterior, e a quarta dedicada a uma mulher, depois de Louise Bourgeois, aos 70 anos; Lee Krasner, aos 76 anos; e Helen Frankenthaler, aos 67.
"Deeper Than D.", 1983 (269,2 x 259,1 cm) Col. part.
NYT - a notícia
"Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies"
By ROBERTA SMITH
Published: August 13, 2007
"Elizabeth Murray, a New York painter who reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high-spirited, cartoon-based, language of form whose subjects included domestic life, relationships and the nature of painting itself, died yesterday at her home in upstate New York.
She was 66 and lived in TriBeCa and in Washington County, N.Y.
The cause was complications of lung cancer, said Douglas Baxter, president of PaceWildenstein, which has represented her work since 1995."
"The Sun and the Moon" 2005, oil on canvas on wood, c. 3 x 2,5 m.
O MoMA (que tem 23 obras na sua colecção ) apresentara assim a retrospectiva de 2005/06:
"Elizabeth Murray (American, b. 1940) belongs to a generation of artists who emerged in the 1970s and whose exposure to Cubist-derived Minimalism and Surrealist-influenced Pop inspired experimentation with new modes of expression that would bridge the gap between these two historical models. In this context, Murray has produced a singularly innovative body of work. Warping, twisting, and knotting her constructed canvases, she has given the elastic shapes of classic surrealism a space in their own image."
"Join" (1980) 337,8 x 332,7 cm, col. Bank of America
MICHAEL KIMMELMAN (March 21, 2003) NYT: "Ms. Murray loves to paint. That's still the bottom line. Her art is about her absorption in this antique endeavor, which she finds deadly serious and ecstatically satisfying. These days, when there is so much facile painting around, it is useful to be reminded that there are still veterans like her, steeped in the medium, its difficulties and pleasures, who work so hard and make such beautiful art."
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