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DiggDimitri Hadzi: Bronze Sculpture
May 1, 2008 - June 14, 2008
Reception: May 1, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dimitri Hadzi
Danese
535 W 24th StAs exclusive representative of the estate of Dimitri Hadzi, Danese is pleased to announce its first exhibition of the artists sculpture.
Like many of his contemporaries, Hadzi successfully reconciled complex emotional subject matter within the canon of mid-twentieth-century abstraction. Hadzi was ever conscious of classical prototypes and was profoundly inspired by the work of Polycleitos and Praxiteles, and Renaissance artists such as Ghiberti, Donatello and Michelangelo.
In an interview with Albert Elsen he reflected on the importance of the twenty-five years he spent in Rome: I was interested in mythology, and I was interested in movement... I was attempting through formal methods to exaggerate sexual tension or apprehension. Suddenly I was myself in an atmosphere of freedom. The artistic liberation he experienced in Europe extended throughout his career and is manifest in the diversity and dynamism of surface texture and complex patinas, which characterizes his entire body of work. In sculptures such as Thebes III, Thermopylae, and Naxian Object, passages of the bronze material remain unadulterated in their rough, original state adding to the sensuality that has always been a central feature in his work.
Hadzi’s sculpture and its references to antiquity and classical artifacts are the stuff of Homeric legend—abstracted anatomical forms, helmets, implements of battle and body armor, columns, and primal tools such as blades, hammers and axes deepen the aesthetic experience of these works and function as extended visual metaphors for ancient cultures.
Born in New York City on March 21, 1921, Hadzi graduated from Cooper Union in 1950 and received a Fulbright Fellowship during the same year. After studying sculpture in Greece, he moved to Rome where he lived for twenty-five years. Hadzi returned to the U.S. where he taught at Harvard University for fourteen years, and continued to create sculpture until his death in 2006.
Hadzi is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; The Phillips Collection and the Guggenheim Museum. Receiving over twenty sculpture commissions, Hadzi’s work appears in public squares, concert halls, federal and private plazas, and universities all over the world.
A full color catalogue with an introduction by Seamus Heaney accompanies the exhibition.
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