Opening Nov. 12  |  10AM-6PM at Nahmad Contemporary  View this email in your browser (https://mailchi.mp/bbf08977e372/nahmad-contemporary-newsletter-september-5089604?e=c39411af91) U P C O M I N G E X H I B I T I O N ** R I C H A R D P R I N C E C A R T O O N J O K E S ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Nov. 12, 2020 - Jan. 16, 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------ I remember ’82, ’84, everybody painting. At least that’s what everybody seemed to be doing. I wanted to paint too but I didn’t have anything to paint. That wouldn’t come until later. It wouldn’t be until 1986 that I finally found something to paint… jokes. – Richard Prince, 2016 NEW YORK—Nahmad Contemporary is pleased to announce Richard Prince: Cartoon Jokes, the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to the artist’s brazen, large-scale Cartoon Joke paintings. Slated to run from Nov. 12, 2020, through Jan. 16, 2021, the presentation will feature an impressive selection of works created between 1988 and 1991 from this notably rare series that appropriate irreverent humor and mark Prince’s cunning foray into painting. Throughout his career, Prince has mined popular culture to address American societal conventions while boldly dismantling notions of authorship. Having previously dedicated his practice to photographic appropriations of media and advertisements, the artist turned his attention to cartoons in 1984 with a series of simple drawings copied verbatim from The New Yorker. Shortly thereafter, he separated the found cartoons from their captions and paired them with unrelated punch lines to create novel, enigmatic narratives. Engaging the macabre nature of classic American and Borsch-Belt comedy, Prince refined his repertoire of culled material to a distinct selection of jokes and cartoons that addresses stereotypes, sexuality, infidelity and embarrassment. Parlaying his notorious appropriative strategies into painting, Prince silk-screened the disjointed cartoons and jokes together onto monumental canvases beginning in 1988. At the focus of the exhibition are the paintings rendered in dynamic, monochromatic hues of orange, red, burgundy, purple or green, that evidence the artist’s innate mastery of color from the onset of his engagement with the medium. These works shocked and defied the expectations of the art world that was accustomed to his photographic legacy. Created during a period defined by a revival of expressionistic, gestural painting, the series marks Prince’s singular approach to the medium by way of bleak and witty cartoons and one-liners that renounce the grandiose, dramatically painterly style that dominated the New York art scene. The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue produced in collaboration with the artist and featuring scholarly texts and archival materials. Press Release (http://www.nahmadcontemporary.com/exhibitions/richard-prince-cartoon-jokes) C U R R E N T L Y O N V I E W S U P E R U N K N O W N Max Ernst & Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer Until Nov. 5, 2020 http://www.nahmadcontemporary.com/exhibitions/superunknown-max-ernst-and-yves-tanguy-with-urs-fischer SUPERUNKNOWN | Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer, featuring works across centuries in a jarring yet markedly relevant discourse, the exhibition includes iconic paintings by the Surrealist masters alongside the debut of an immersive wallpaper installation by Urs Fischer. Press Release, 360VR, Video (http://www.nahmadcontemporary.com/exhibitions/superunknown-max-ernst-and-yves-tanguy-with-urs-fischer) NAHMAD CONTEMPORARY 980 MADISON AVE ⎮ NEW YORK ⎮ NY ⎮10075 [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) +1 646 449 9118 Monday-Saturday, 10AM-6PM http://www.nahmadcontemporary.com/ https://www.instagram.com/nahmadcontemporary/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/Nahmad-Contemporary-761104604029387/ https://www.twitter.com/Joe_Nahmad/ ============================================================ © Richard Prince Max Ernst © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Yves Tanguy © 2020 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Urs Fischer © Urs Fischer, courtesy of the artist Installation view by Tom Powel Imaging If you received this email in error or no longer wish to receive these mailings, you can click here to ** unsubscribe (https://nahmadcontemporary.us17.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=b70673086d081550990c36524&id=62f68f98d0&e=c39411af91&c=c4ff994296)