In 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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