Tears of Blood Courtesy of Piotr Uklański at the Dallas Contemporary
ART NEWS
By Dan Duray
NEW YORK---Piotr Uklański, whose work opens at the Dallas Contemporary this Sunday and who will open two shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this March, was in the process of moving when we met at his studio in Greenpoint yesterday....The Dallas Contemporary show focuses only on his blood and ink paintings, a series he’s been making for seven years, though most of which have never before been seen. The Contemporary gave him leeway in what he wanted to do for the show, and he’d settled on blood as a reaction to post-war works by Rothko and Gutai he’d noticed in the collections around Dallas, which he said tried to sublimate the violence of World War II. [link]
By Dan Duray
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| "Tears of Blood" (2011) |
