VICTOR MAN
(GLADSTONE GALLERY)
Published by
Koenig Books /
Gladstone Gallery
English
78 pages
23 x 29.5 cm
Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-7533-0692-6
Price: 230 lei
Catalogue of the most recent show of Victor Man, internationally acclaimed for his oil paintings that are both reminiscent of the works of old masters and strikingly modern in their reflections on identity, belonging and the human condition / Victor Man's paintings are often dark, in muted greys and blues, referencing the history of painting on multiple levels, often combined in exhibitions with installations, sculptures and other elements. In this body of work, Man simultaneously confronts the history of painting, which contends with a complicated relationship between gaze and authorship, and the contemporary condition. The publication foregrounds Man's striking compositions anchored in his explorations of tensions between the familiar and the enigmatic, the spiritual and the existential.
Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Victor Man, on view at Gladstone Gallery, New York from March 15 to April 27, 2024. The catalogue includes a passage from E. M. Cioran’s The Second-Hand Thinker: Tribulations of an Alien (1949) and an afterword by Barbara Gladstone.