"Blum & Poe is pleased to host a gallery walkthrough of ""New Images of Man"" curated by Alison M. Gingeras.
This exhibition revisits and expands upon the Museum of Modern Art’s 1959 epoch-making group exhibition curated by Peter Selz that brought together artists whose work grappled with the human condition as well as emerging modes of humanist representation in painting and sculpture in the wake of the traumatic fallout of the Second World War.
Some sixty years have passed since ""New Images of Man"" presented key figures of the European neo avant-garde alongside the ascendant figures of the American art scene, set against the backdrop of existentialist philosophy and the socio-political anxieties of the postwar period. Part homage, part radical revision, this two-floor presentation reconstitutes emblematic figures from the original MoMA line up of artists while simultaneously expanding outwards to include those of the same generation and period who were overlooked in the midcentury. As our changing art historical canon has expanded to include previously excluded women artists as well as figures who worked outside of Western Europe and North America, Gingeras’s ""New Images of Man"" incorporates artists that reflect this drastically widened vision of art history. Incorporating key works by Alina Szapocznikow, Roland Dorcély, Niki de Saint Phalle, Maryan, M.F. Husain, Enrico Baj, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Yuki Katsura and more—with the benefit of inclusive hindsight, Gingeras strives to present a fuller range of this humanist struggle, thus more acutely enacting the original curator, Peter Selz’s vision, to gather a range of “effigies of the disquiet man.” "
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