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September 1995 mam/fa
had the great honor of presenting a
retro-spective exhibition of over forty of
Gerzso's paintings, drawings, sculpture and
prints, covering work from the 1940's to the
1990's. Included were works from mam/fa's
inventory, new works from the artist, and works
lent by private American and Latin American
collectors, including two key paintings
graciously lent from the Jacques and Natasha
Gelman Collection in Mexico City. The artist
traveled to New York for the gallery opening on
September 27th where he was congratulated by
well-wishers from as faraway as San Francisco,
Mexico and Zurich.
At Gerzso's mam/fa opening: André
Emmerich, Mary-Anne Martin, and Gunther Gerzso
Gerzso also presided the
following day at a colloquium entitled A
Conversation with Gunther Gerzso, held
at the Americas Society, whichhosted the event
jointly with the Mexi-can Cultural Institute and
Mary-AnneMartin/Fine Art. The artist
reminiscedabout his lifeas a painter and his
earlier career as a set designer for the theater
and the Mexican film industry.
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Gunther Gerzso
Muro rosa y naranja, 1962
oil and sand on masonite
15 x 213/4
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Gunther Gerzso with Mexican
Cultural Attaché Mireya Terán
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The artist was presented by
Ambassador Jorge Pinto, consul general of Mexico
in New York, and the interview was conducted by
Dr. Hank Hine, now director of Graphicstudio in
Tampa, whose Limestone Press has published many
ofGerzso's sculptures and prints. The
exhibition was a critical success and in fact an
article on the artist's work is now in
preparation by the writer David Ebony for
publication this spring in Art in America.
Prompted by the enthusiastic response of the
public to mam/fa's
show (the exhibition had to be held over for an
extra month), this will be the first article on
Gerzso to appear in a major national art magazine
in the United States.
This show will travel in a reduced format to
the Galerie Rahn, in Zurich, where it will
open on March 27th. A Swiss venue is especially
fitting as Gerzso spent his formative years
studying in Switzerland under the tutelage of his
uncle, an art collector, and art dealer who
schooled him in connoisseurship and the history
of art. Galerie Rahn has begun a program
tointroduce Mexican and Latin American to Zurich
and we look forward to future collaboration with
them.
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