• Installation view: With One Color, curated by Paul Frank McCabe, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, April 30 - June 30, 2011

  • Installation view: With One Color, curated by Paul Frank McCabe, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, April 30 - June 30, 2011

  • Installation view: With One Color, curated by Paul Frank McCabe, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, April 30 - June 30, 2011

  • Installation view: With One Color, curated by Paul Frank McCabe, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, April 30 - June 30, 2011

  • Installation view: With One Color, curated by Paul Frank McCabe, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, April 30 - June 30, 2011

  • Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 2010, Stainless steel and gold, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (100 x 100 x 23 cm)

  • Robert Ryman, Virtual, 1993, Oil and Enamelac on Lumasite, 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm)

  • Olivier Mosset, Untitled (Yellow Cross), 2010, Polyeurethane on canvas, 72 x 72 in. (183 x 183 cm)

  • Agostino Bonalumi, Untitled, 1971, Oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 23 1/8 x 7 in. (70 x 59 x 18 cm)

  • Piero Manzoni, Achrome, 1962, Stones on canvas, painted white, 11 7/8 x 15 1/2 in. (30 x 39.5 cm)

  • Rashid Johnson, Cosmic Slop, 2011, Black soap and wax on board, 48 x 48 in. (122 x 122 cm)

  • Aaron Young, Landscape (Dusk), 2010, 1/2 inch laminated glass with shredded tire, rubber, epoxy resin, 84 x 60 in. (213.5 x 152.5 cm)

  • Yves Klein, IKB 258, 1959, Dry pigment on paper, 8 1/4 x 7 in. (21 x 18 cm)

  • Robert Melee, Untitled (Gray Curtain), 2011, Enamel on fiberglass, 74 x 31 x 5 in. (188 x 79 x 13 cm)

  • Richard Aldrich, Untitled (Green on Grey), 2006, Oil and wax on panel, 22 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. (58 x 43 cm)

  • Scott Lyall, EVE 03112011/15401732, 2011, 6-cartridge ink dispersion on powder coated vinyl, adhesive backing, 66 1/2 x 46 3/4 in. (169 x 199 cm)

WITH ONE COLOR
Curated by Paul Frank McCabe

Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York: April 30 - June 30, 2011

PRESS RELEASE:

With One Color is an exhibition of unity within diversity, inspired by today’s lack of solidarity, and an ongoing dispersed artistic practice. Bringing together a selection of monochromatic artworks created post 1940 up until present, the show returns to a pure definition of monochrome as a single color that is free from political and modernist connotations. The monochrome becomes a unifying link that cuts through typical chronological and medium-based classifications. Not an historical survey, With One Color is a suggestion of the monochrome’s account of many meanings.

If it is modern masters like Yves Klein and Manzoni that defined the monochrome as the epitome of abstraction, the end of painting, then the show aims at toying with these standards by pairing modern works with contemporary artists. For example, Anish Kapoor’s choice of a singular reflective gold creates a visual effect that includes the viewer, its sensuality runs counter to the Monochromes restrained nature. In the same expansive pace, Aaron Young’s juxtapositions of high and low culture fit paradoxically in the contemplative realm of the monochrome. It is these very contradictions and varied conceptual frameworks that With One Color aims to reveal. 

The artists in the exhibition include: Aaron Young, Agostino Bonalumi, Anish Kapoor, Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Olivier Mosset, Piero Manzoni, Rashid Johnston, Richard Aldrich, Robert Melee, Robert Ryman, Rudolf Stingel, Scott Lyall, Yves Klein

For more information, please contact us at paul@mccabefineart.com or +46 (0)709 99 77 46.