Daniel Rothbart: Dinner with Robbe-Grillet in Naples
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Galerie Depardieu
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Daniel Rothbart: Dinner with Robbe Grillet in Naples
Opening: Thursday, October 13 at 6:00 pm
Closing: Wednesday, November 22, 2022
The Galerie Depardieu is pleased to present Dinner with Robbe Grillet in Naples, recent works by Daniel Rothbart. Sixteen digital collages will be on view together with a new kinetic sculpture. The world premiere of an eponymous film, realized for this exhibition, will take place at La Napoule Art Foundation – Château de la Napoule.
While living in Naples during the early 1990s, Rothbart participated in a conference together with writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, author of Last Year at Marienbad. After the first day of sessions, Rothbart dined with Robbe-Grillet, his wife, and others. In the words of artist and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum, “this moment from so long ago, in Naples, in 1992, lodged in the artist Daniel’s consciousness and sprouted decades of fantasy and itineraries.”
Rothbart’s studio projects include Inscrutable Theologies, Aachen, Germany; STREAMING II at The Frank Institute @ CR10, Linlithgo, New York; The Rumsey Street Project, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Air de Venise, Venice, Italy; and WATERLINES at the Galerie Depardieu, Nice, France. He has exhibited in Ventisette artisti e una rivista, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy; Citydrift, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York; But I’m an American, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Serbia; and Meditation | Mediation, Life is Art Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana. Rothbart has also exhibited at the Andrea Meislin Gallery, Exit Art, WhiteBox, the LAB Gallery in New York City, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York, and the Artists Residence Gallery in Herzliya, Israel. Rothbart was awarded Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in Italy, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and a residency at La Napoule Art Foundation in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France. His work is the subject of a monograph by Enrico Pedrini published in 2010 by Ulisse e Calipso of Naples, Italy.
Rothbart holds a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. 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 American cultural identity, Hollywood, and the transmutation of meaning through digital collages inhabited by his sculpture. 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’s work can be found in public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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