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 For Immediate Release
Henry Darger, At Jennie Richee They Admire the Beauty of the Tropical Nimbus Clouds,
24" x 108", watercolor, pencil and collage on paper ( Copyright Kiyoko Lerner)
Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to announce the forthcoming opening of Darger Discoveries , a concentrated and illuminating new survey of mixed-media works by the legendary Chicago recluse and autodidact Henry Darger (1892-1973).
Darger Discoveries will feature several newly available, emblematic works from the self-taught master's oeuvre that have been shown in important exhibitions in the U.S. (including Disasters of War, PS1/ MOMA), Europe and Japan. They include double-sided, panoramic drawings of groups of Blengins in little-girl incarnations, sometimes with parachute-sized butterfly wings. Surrounded by succulent, pop-colored flowers, and infused with collaged cut-outs from magazines, these images evoke 1960s psychedelia and feature many of Darger's signature themes and motifs. Undoubtedly some of his greatest masterpieces, these drawings display an exquisite handling of color and composition, and evoke a mood at once idyllic and oddly foreboding.
We are also pleased pleased to present Henry Darger's Room: Photographs by Keizo Kitajima, a selection of limited edition c-prints by the Japanese photographer Keizo Kitajima from the book Henry Darger's Room: 851 Webster (Tokyo Imperial Press, 2007). Kitajima's photographs document the one-room apartment inside the Chicago townhouse where the artist lived and worked for some 40 years. Kitajima's photographs capture the air of isolation and show the contents-stacks of books and papers, shelves lined with religious objects, art supplies and works-in-progress- of Darger's living quarters. Taken 26 years after the artist's death and six months before the apartment was finally dismantled, these pictures capture an experience of pilgrimage to the unique environment that was rarely visited during the artist's lifetime.
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Brent Green
Ernest Hemingway Fishing, 2007
18 x 24 in.
gouache
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