NEW YORK, NY.- Lord and Taylor announces an exhibition of paintings by Juan Genoves, courtesy of Marlborough Gallery. Twelve canvases by the renowned Spanish artist are on display in the legendary Fifth Avenue windows of Lord and Taylor's flagship store, a New York landmark, through July 7th.
"We are honored to have the opportunity to showcase the work of one of Spain's best-known contemporary artists in our Fifth Avenue Windows," says LaVelle Olexa, Senior Vice President, Public Relations. "They portray a thoroughly modern spirit and pose a perfect backdrop for looks from our Menswear collections."
Born in Valencia in 1930, Genoves is recognized for work with a style rooted in Social Realism and Pop. The paintings showcased at the Lord and Taylor exhibition depict bird's-eye views of scenes where the absence of buildings, roads, trees or clues to a common landscape create a dynamic of intensity and dislocation. Genoves's forceful use of line and perspective, aligned with an exacting eye for the modulation and use of color, is married to the artist's conviction that art should be socially engaged and emotionally, indeed, physically, engaging.
Genoves attended San Carlos Fine Arts School, settling in Madrid in 1958, where he exhibited with frequency, joining Marlborough Gallery in 1966. His work is found in many of the most important public collections in the United States and Europe, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France; The Museum of Modern Art and The Guggenheim Museum, both in New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Israel Museum, Jerusalem and IVAM, Valencia, Spain, among others. He is the recipient of a number of important prizes, including the Mention of Honor at the XXXIII Venice Biennale, 1966; the Gold Medal at the VI Biennale Internazionale de San Marino, 1967; the Marzotto Internazional Prize, 1968; the Premio Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Spain, 1984; and the Premio de las Artes Plasticas del Generalitat Valenciana, Spain, 2002.
Besides its world-famous Christmas windows, Lord and Taylor is committed to bring exciting exhibitions to Fifth Avenue. Past exhibitions have included sculptures by Thomas Beale, Chakaia Booker and Manolo Valdes and the paintings of Red Grooms, Thierry Despont, Richard Estes, Larry Rivers, and Mainland China's Gu Gan, Guo Jin, Liu Kuo-Sung and Yang Yangping, among others. Lord and Taylor has also showcased the photographs of Gideon Lewin and Roberto Dutesco, as well as D. A. Pennebaker's groundbreaking short film, Daybreak Express shown alongside Andrew Garn's historical photographs from The New York Transit Museum.
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