Plus fugitif que la lumière
Antarctica II, 1993-2024, giclée print on Hahnemühle paper with archival ink, 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm.).
For Immediate Release
Exhibition: Daniel Rothbart: Plus fugitif que la lumière
September 5 – October 5, 2024
Galerie Depardieu
6 Rue Dr Jacques Guidoni
(ex Passage Gioffrédo)
06000 Nice – France
+33 (0) 497121299
galerie.depardieu@orange.fr
www.galerie-depardieu.com
Opening Thursday, September 5 from 6 – 8 pm
The Galerie Depardieu is pleased to present Plus fugitif que la lumière, recent works by Daniel Rothbart. Sixteen digital collages will be on view together with a new kinetic sculpture. More Fugitive than Light: Poems of Rome, Venice, Paris, 2016-2017, a new book by poet and art writer Richard Milazzo with collages by Daniel Rothbart, is available in the gallery. Plus fugitif que la lumière will be Rothbart’s twelfth solo exhibition at the Galerie Depardieu.
Daniel Rothbart creates floating sculptures for seas, lakes, rivers, and cisterns, animated by the movement of water. His sculptures for terra firma include vessel-inspired forms which are integral to his performance collaborations with other artists, writers, and poets. Daniel Rothbart investigates themes of cultural identity, displacement, and the transmutation of meaning through digital collages inhabited by his sculpture.
Rothbart’s studio projects include RamleAnthropocene, the Pool of the Arches / Center for Contemporary Art Ramle CACR, Ramle, Israel; Water Clocks, Hudson River / The Hudson Eye, Hudson, New York; Inscrutable Theologies, Saint Elisabeth Church / Kunstwechsel, Aachen, Germany; Air de Venise, Venice, Italy; and WATERLINES, Galerie Depardieu, Nice, France. He has exhibited at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy; the Museum of Contemporary Art MoCAB, Belgrade, Serbia; Momenta Art and Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn, New York; and Andrea Meislin Gallery, Exit Art, and WhiteBox Contemporary Art Center in New York City.
He is the author of three books. Jewish Metaphysics as Generative Principle in American Art (1994) explores the relationship between Jewish culture and post-war American abstraction. The Story of the Phoenix (1999) examines fluid themes of creation, destruction, and authorship. Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius (2018) is a book of travel writing inspired by Rothbart’s experiences as a Fulbright scholar in Naples during the early 1990’s. The work combines personal narrative with stories from the city’s history, ancient and modern, that speak to Neapolitan values and culture.
Rothbart was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant along with residencies at the Artists’ Residence Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel and La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France. His work is the subject of a monograph by Enrico Pedrini published by Ulisse e Calipso of Naples, Italy.
Daniel Rothbart’s work can be found in public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
www.danielrothbart.org
youtube.com/danielrothbart
More Fugitive than Light: Poems of Rome, Venice, Paris, 2016-2017