MIMI FERZT GALLERY
81 Greene St. New York, NY 10012
(212) 343-9377
www.mimiferzt.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 30, 2015
Mimi Ferzt Gallery is honored to announce the Zimmerli Art Museum’s acquisition of the oil
painting
Room with a Frame
(2013) by the Riga-born, Berlin-based artist Edite Grinberga for the
permanent collection. This work will be included in their forthcoming exhibition,
Through the
Looking Glass: Hyperrealism in the Soviet Union
, on view April 4 through October 11, 2015.
Edite Grinberga studied painting, textiles, and theater design at State Academy of Art, Riga.
A painting of startling intimacy and
subtle poetry,
Room with a Frame
negotiates disparate historical and
cultural forces. The empty frame floating
in the luminous interior pays homage to
Kasimir Malevich’s 1915
Black Square
,
th
the 20 century’s premier example of
radical
abstraction.
Converging
geometries of light and shadow against
the spare white wall recall the Alexander
Rodchenko’s Constructivist photographs,
while the painting’s warmth and
meticulous finish are reminiscent of
Vermeer.
Light is often the primary aesthetic and psychological subject of Edite Grinberga’s white
interiors. She states, “
The light exceeds the threshold of the frame, the same way reality exceeds
our perception. There is more to see beyond the restrictions of our consciousness, and a piece
of art extends these limits...A frame points out the significance of the object it houses,but it can
also symbolize the border of the capacity of our cognition.” The imposed limitations of the
frame echo the polemical environment Grinberga experienced as an artist in the Soviet Union:
“The energy of challenging political and aesthetic limitations results in a strong will for a distinct
artistic statement.”
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, one of the largest and most
distinguished university art museums in the United States, holds more than 60,000 artworks,
from ancient to contemporary including American, European, and Russian art. Furthermore, it
houses the
world’s foremost public collection of Soviet Nonconformism
. This acquisition
demonstrates a continuation of the institution’s unique focus on the art of Russia and the Baltic
States.
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
71 Hamilton Street, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu |
(732) 932-7237
For further information, contact Gabrielle Segal at [email protected]