For Immediate Release:
MIAMI—The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse opens to the public this season with three exhibitions highlighting key moments of 20th Century art and photography history. Pop Art features sculpture and paintings from the 1960s through 1990s by Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Chamberlain, and Segal. Records of the Past includes 60 photographs from the National Child Labor Committee by Lewis Hine. Additionally, this season we present an exhibition of Italian Art grounded in the 1960s movement Arte Povera where artists subverted traditional ways of making art by using ephemeral and “poor” materials. Our presentation of these art historically relevant exhibitions with contemporary art continues our founding mission to provide visitors with opportunities for active learning and direct engagement with the art.
Our dedication to historically important exhibitions is showcased in a selection of seminal paintings and sculptures of Pop from the Margulies Collection. The works in Pop Art span the early 1960s when artists responded to the rise of commercial mass production after World War II, to the continuing trends of the Pop Art movement in the 1990s. A common thread in these pieces is the use of found objects or handmade elements. An example is Roy Lichtenstein’s Hot Dog (1963) which utilizes the artists hand painted Ben-Day dots—a feature representative of an inexpensive printing method used to illustrate shading or color. The reversal of representation—handmaking something that is already mass produced—is similarly seen in John’s classic 0-9 numbers where his thickly impastoed numerals become three-dimensional objects. With a different approach, George Segal’s Subway (1968) integrates a real New York City subway car the artist extracted from the junkyard with a plaster cast of a woman riding alone. Also featured are a Brillo and Campbells Soup Box from Andy Warhol’s famed silkscreen creations of “The Factory” which revolutionized art as a commodity and reinforced its capacity for reproducibility. These works from the Margulies Collection of Pop artists—Warhol, Wesselmann, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Segal, Chamberlain—illustrates the radical shift in art history where artists both embraced and critiqued the media, commerce, and popular culture through their respective art practices.
Records of the Past: Lewis Hine Child Labor Photographs features 60 photographs by Lewis Hine from the early twentieth century culled from nearly 300 photographs from the National Child Labor Committee in the Margulies Collection. Hine was hired shortly after the National Child Labor Committee was founded in 1904 as a staff photographer tasked with documenting violations of child labor laws. Using his camera and making written observational accounts, Hine produced important records detailing the conditions in which the children worked – often in mills or factories. Hine’s goal was to saturate public consciousness with his images to encourage political changes that would protect the rights of children. The exhibition presents both the front of his photographs and the type or hand-written statements on the back, providing a full view of the evidence Hine collected in these records of the past. The exhibition is curated by Jeanie Ambrosio.
Since its inception, the Margulies Collection has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Europe, particularly the movements and materials of Italy. For the exhibition Italian Art 1970 – 2024, we bring together Arte Povera works alongside contemporary Italian artworks. The show features a piece from Michaelangelo’s 2024 Color and Light series which combines jute, mirror, and paint in a glided frame. Color and Light may be considered a refined version of his famed installation and performance at the 2009 Venice Biennale titled Twenty-Two Less One where the artist shattered mirrors with a large hammer in front of visitors. We are pleased to present Color and Light (2024) alongside Two Less One (2009) to provide this historical framework for the artists’ contemporary work. Additionally, a 1971 frosted refrigerator motor piece from Pier Paolo Calzolari contextualizes his new paintings from 2021 utilizing salt, shells, wood and flame. Works by Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Maurzio Pellegrin, Mimmo Paladino, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Bertozzi & Casoni, Giuolio Paolini, Gilberto Zorio, and Luciano Fabro are included.
On permanent display remains large-scale sculptures by Anselm Kiefer, Mark di Suvero, William Tucker, Marco Bagnoli and Do Ho Suh.
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Image:
Roy Lichtenstein
Hot Dog, 1963
oil and magna on canvas
20 x 36 inches
Collection Martin Z. Margulies