The Merchant House, on behalf of founding director Marsha Plotnitsky and Penn-Wharton alumna, invites Ivy Circle members to the exhibition opening of André Stempfel.
A distinguished French artist, an undisputed authority on the monochrome, a hands-on inventor, André Stempfel (1930) has undoubtedly given us new proof of the monochrome’s longevity and artistic force. The Merchant House (TMH) is honored to present a special exhibition of his medium-defining and -defying body of work. Stempfel’s timeless geometries in radiant yellow—his “yellow monochromes”—enter a lived-in environment, but only to decontextualize. Ludic, acrobatic, spectacular, they unsettle common viewpoints.
Now ninety-five, Stempfel remains at the height of his pursuit, true to his self-described, open-ended program of “destruction-metamorphosis”: “iconoclastic (and euphoric),” intent on “raising havoc” in a “space of introspection.”
Public Exhibition Opening:
Saturday 13 December, 18:00-20:00, in the presence of the artist
Please RSVP: info@merchanthouse.nl |