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The exhibition offers a representative survey
of Pollock’s figurative oeuvre, tracing his creative
evolution from the mid
1930s to his early death in an
accident in 1956.
By contrast, the show features only glimpses of the majestic
drip paintings the artist produced in the short period between
1947 and 1950. The absence of these famous canvases is a
deliberate
omission, drawing the visitor’s attention to the manifest
continuity linking the frequently marginalized works of
the 1930s and 1940s to the well-known large
-format canvases from the 1950s. The selection includes
an imposing set of black paintings, the works Pollockcreated
immediately after abandoning his signature drip style, as
well as his last pictures from the 1950s, which insistently
probe the question of the figure.
Curator : Nina Zimmer
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