On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, Tommaso Calabro inaugurates the new gallery venue in Venice at the noble floor of Palazzo Donà Brusa in Campo San Polo, whose origins date back to the early 19th century, and celebrates the connection between Harold Stevenson (1929-2018) and the lagoon city, which was an important source of inspiration for the American artist.
"Harold Stevenson" the first monographic exhibition in Italy, opens concurrently with the preview of the 60th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale. It was in Venice, indeed, specifically in the San Polo district, that Harold Stevenson exhibited a series of significant paintings and Murano glass sculptures in 1962, alongside artists such as Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely, during the "Piccola Biennale" exhibition, commissioned by the French gallerist Iris Clert and parallel to the 31st edition of the Venice Biennale.
"Harold Stevenson" represents a unique opportunity to discover the work of this artist, a prominent figure in post-war avant-garde culture, close friend of Andy Warhol, and renowned for his large-scale paintings of male nudes, such as the famous "The New Adam" (1962). His last Italian exhibition, "Realisti Iperrealisti," at the La Medusa Gallery in Rome, dates to November 1973, where the artist exhibited two paintings titled "Piece of Action" alongside works by Botero, Hockney, Pistoletto, and eight other important artists of the 20th century. On display in Venice until July 27, 2024 are works created between the late 1950s and the 1970s, including the famous nude paintings, "toreros," and glass sculptures.
With "Harold Stevenson," Tommaso Calabro further deepens his research on Alexander Iolas, one of the most famous art dealers of the last century, who organized eleven solo exhibitions of the artist in America and Europe between 1972 and 1984: in New York in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1982, and 1984, in Athens in 1973, and in Paris in 1973 and 1974.
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