PAUL JENKINS
Awareness of time
Open Art Gallery May 8-July 24 2010
Palace Pacchiani 8 May to 30 June 2010
Palace Pacchiani OPENING - Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 18.00
artist will be present
Open Art Gallery HOURS: 16.00 to 20.00 Monday to Friday
10.30 to 13, 00 / 16.00 to 20.00 Saturday
Palace Pacchiani: 15.00 to 20.00 Monday to Saturday
closed Sundays and holidays
EDITIONS The Ori - Open Art Gallery - vol. 21 Italian / English
Catalogue by Mauro Stefanini, with the collaboration of the artist and Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins
Critical text by Beatrice Buscaroli
Ten years after the first major Italian public solo exhibition, hosted in Vicenza in 2000
the Palladian Basilica, the American Paul Jenkins, a leading contemporary artists living back in Italy
with a major exhibition curated by Mauro Stefanini under the patronage of the Municipality of Prato.
For the exhibition, open from May 8, 2010, there is a double seat:
- Pacchiani Palace, palace of the eighteenth century in the center of Prato, courtesy
by the City Prato
- Open Art Gallery
After the fundamental arrival in Italy in 1953, when the artist was enlightened by knowledge
of Pompeii, and Taormina in Sicily, Jenkins back in our country for this exhibition, with a selection
of paintings from the 50s to the latest works.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1923, Jenkins studied at the Art Students League in New York, in particular
with the painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi. He came to the fervor of American abstract expressionism, assiduous
friend of Jackson Pollock and careful work of Mark Rothko, Jenkins developed his own style, unique and recognizable
in more than half a century after the European experience. The first exhibition was held in Paris in 1954, the study
Facchetti and in New York in 1956, the Martha Jackson Gallery.
Inspired by the primal force of color and his lie on the white canvas, the artist brought a naturalness of
expressionist gesture to European history and tradition, seeking a resolution in of
and fruitful existence of opposites.
Mediated by knowledge and by the continued attendance of the oriental culture, the painting of Jenkins arises
as the sole and absolute meditation balance between nature and history, past and present, instinct and reason.
Palace Pacchiani
Via G. Mazzini, 65
59100 Prato
ART GALLERY OPEN
Viale della Repubblica, 24
59100 Prato
tel. 0574 538003/fax 0574 537808
galleria@openart.it www.openart.it
ENGLISH
PAUL JENKINS
On the Rim of Time
Galleria Open Art 8 May - 24 July 2010
Palazzo Pacchiani 8 May - 30 June 2010
OPENING Palazzo Pacchiani — Saturday 8 May 2010 6:00pm
The artist will be present
HOURS Galleria Open Art: 4:00pm – 8:00pm Monday to Friday
10:30 – 1:00pm/4:00-8:00pm Saturdays
Palazzo Pacchiani: 3:00pm – 8:00pm Monday to Saturday
Closed Sundays and holidays
EDIZIONI Gli Ori – Galleria Open Art – vol. 21 Italian/English
Catalogue published by Mauro Stefanini, with the collaboration of the artist and Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins
Text by Beatrice Buscaroli
Ten years after his first extensive solo exhibition in a public space in Italy held at the Basilica Palladiana in
Vicenza in 2000, the American Paul Jenkins, one of the most important living modern painters, is back in Italy,
with a striking show taking place concurrently at two venues in Prato, curated by Mauro Stefanini, and opening
on the 8 th of May 2010.
Exhibition sites:
- Palazzo Pacchiani, an 18 th century Palazzo located in the center of Prato,
under the auspices of the Commune of Prato
- Galleria Open Art
After his enriching travels to Italy in 1953, when the artist made significant discoveries at Pompei and at
Taormina in Sicily, Jenkins returns for this exhibition organized by the Prato-based gallery, featuring a selection
of paintings from the late 50s to recent works.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1923, Jenkins studied at the Art Students League in New York City with the
painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Living and working in the midst of the fervor of American Abstract Expressionism,
a close friend of Jackson Pollock and keen observer of Mark Rothko’s work, Jenkins developed his own unique
unmistakable style over more than 50 years following his European experience. His first solo exhibition was held
in Paris in 1954, at the Studio Paul Facchetti and in New York City, at the Martha Jackson Gallery in 1956.
Inspired by the primordial force of color on the whiteness of the canvas, the artist brought a naturalness of
expressionist gesture to the history and tradition of Europe, as he sought resolution within the fertile and primal
“co-existence of opposites.”
The painting of Jenkins, through its manifest knowledge and continued involvement with Eastern culture, situates
itself as a unique and absolute meditation on nature and history, present and past, instinct and reason.
Palace Pacchiani
Via G. Mazzini, 65
59100 Prato
ART GALLERY OPEN
Viale della Repubblica, 24
59100 Prato
tel. 0574 0574 537 808 538003/fax
galleria@openart.it www.openart.it
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