White Flag Projects: Saturday, 5 June 2010
Ernest Trova (1927 –2009)
June 5 – July 17, 2010
Opening reception Saturday evening June 5, 7–10 pm
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce the first posthumous survey of artwork by Ernest Trova, who died last year at the age of 82. Focusing on the artist's serial use of abbreviated human forms, the exhibition will include sculpture, painting, and prints spanning Trova's 60 year career, including major works from his notable Falling Man series, as well as many artworks that have gone unseen for more than 40 years. A free opening reception will be held Saturday evening, June 5, 2010 from 7 to 10 PM. The exhibition remains on view through July 17, 2010.
Ernest Trova was for a time among the most successful and widely acknowledged sculptors working in the United States. But despite the kind of success that resulted in Trova being invited to participate in a Documenta, three Whitney Annuals and three Venice Biennales, today the eccentric art of Ernest Trova is largely forgotten.
Those who experienced the art world of the 1960s and 1970s firsthand will recall Trova's once-famous Falling Man series, which used an armless, pot-bellied male figure as a standardized representation of humanity at its most fallible. When employed in paintings and prints Trova's anti-heroic Falling Man was depicted as a flattened silhouette repeated and repositioned within and around geometric environments. In three-dimensions Falling Man was typically realized in plated bronze or stainless steel and polished to mirrored perfection. Trova's Falling Man was for a time an ubiquitous icon of post-industrial dystopia that could be seen everywhere from Philip Johnson's private gallery at his Glass House to the cover of Time Magazine. Today however, Trova's work is neglected in even the broadest art historical narratives of the period.
June 5 – July 17, 2010
Opening reception Saturday evening June 5, 7–10 pm
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce the first posthumous survey of artwork by Ernest Trova, who died last year at the age of 82. Focusing on the artist's serial use of abbreviated human forms, the exhibition will include sculpture, painting, and prints spanning Trova's 60 year career, including major works from his notable Falling Man series, as well as many artworks that have gone unseen for more than 40 years. A free opening reception will be held Saturday evening, June 5, 2010 from 7 to 10 PM. The exhibition remains on view through July 17, 2010.
Ernest Trova was for a time among the most successful and widely acknowledged sculptors working in the United States. But despite the kind of success that resulted in Trova being invited to participate in a Documenta, three Whitney Annuals and three Venice Biennales, today the eccentric art of Ernest Trova is largely forgotten.
Those who experienced the art world of the 1960s and 1970s firsthand will recall Trova's once-famous Falling Man series, which used an armless, pot-bellied male figure as a standardized representation of humanity at its most fallible. When employed in paintings and prints Trova's anti-heroic Falling Man was depicted as a flattened silhouette repeated and repositioned within and around geometric environments. In three-dimensions Falling Man was typically realized in plated bronze or stainless steel and polished to mirrored perfection. Trova's Falling Man was for a time an ubiquitous icon of post-industrial dystopia that could be seen everywhere from Philip Johnson's private gallery at his Glass House to the cover of Time Magazine. Today however, Trova's work is neglected in even the broadest art historical narratives of the period.
White Flag Projects
4568 Manchester Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
4568 Manchester Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
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