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Susan Galassi, Beatrice Galassi, President Daniel Mark Fogel, Jonathan Galassi, and Fleming Museum Director Janie Cohen at The Frick Collection private showing
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3.21.06 A CREATIVE BRIDGE BETWEEN VERMONT AND NEW YORK
Master and Modern: Goya Exhibits in Vermont and New York
The art of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) forms a creative bridge between Vermont and New York this spring, as two exhibitions of the artist's celebrated works go on public display. Goya has often been referred to as the last of the old masters and the first of the moderns, and each of the exhibits examines a different facet of his work.
"Goya's Last Work," at the Frick Collection in New York, is the first exhibition in the United States to concentrate exclusively on the final phase of the artist’s long career, primarily on the period of his voluntary exile in Bordeaux from 1824 to 1828. On display through May 14 are over fifty objects including paintings, miniatures on ivory, lithographs, and drawings borrowed from public and private European and American collections. "The compact Frick show is sublime," wrote reviewer Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times . . . I can't recall too many exhibitions on this scale more revelatory."
The event is of special note to the UVM community in and around New York because the curator of The Frick Collection and co-curator of the exhibition is Dr. Susan Grace Galassi mother of Beatrice Grace Galassi, UVM Class of 2008. Dr. Galassi hosted a private showing of the exhibition for a very fortunate group of UVM alumni, parents, and friends on March 21 in support of The Campaign for the University of Vermont and its New York initiative.
"We were absolutely delighted to be able to participate in some meaningful way with the University's educational agenda," said Galassi, "particularly in view of the Goya exhibition on campus at the Fleming. Together they treat two different periods in his life and his art and complement one another very well. It's a wonderful connection."
A slightly younger Goya and an earlier expression of his genius are the focus of an exhibit at UVM's Fleming Museum this spring, as well.
"Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos" comprises 80 captioned, black-and-white prints that rank among the most celebrated works in the history of Western art. Completed in 1799, six years after a devastating illness left the artist without his hearing, Los Caprichos satirizes the foibles of late 18th century Spanish society and denounces the social abuses and superstitions that were prevalent in an era marked by social and political repression.
"Between Los Caprichos at the Fleming and the remarkable exhibition Susan Galassi and her colleagues have assembled at the Frick, we have the rare opportunity this spring to view much of this important artist's most powerful work," said Fleming Museum director Janie Cohen. "Los Caprichos represents Goya's fantastical denunciation of Spanish society and his mastery of the aquatint medium. In his late work at the Frick we see the artist exploring new mediums and plumbing the heights and depths of the human experience to the very end of his artistic life."
The Goya exhibition runs at the Fleming through May 14 in tandem with "The Inferno of Dante by Michael Mazur." Both exhibitions have received support from the Kalkin Family Exhibitions Endowment Fund. Additional support was received from KeyBank, the Walter Cerf Exhibitions Fund, the University of Vermont Honors College, the Provost's Office, Area and International Studies, Humanities Center, the Buckham Fund, and the Dan and Carole Burack President's Distinguished Lecture Series.