WILLIAM CROZIER: SAVAGERY BENEATH THE SURFACE

PIANO NOBILE presents

WILLIAM CROZIER: SAVAGERY BENEATH THE SURFACE

GALLERY TALK
Saturday 18 November 2017, 4pm
To be given by Dr Sarah Turner, Deputy Director for Research at the Paul Mellon Centre and contributor to Irish Museum of Modern Art's new publication 'William Crozier: The Edge of the Landscape'

PIANO NOBILE Kings Place
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Piano Nobile presents William Crozier: Savagery Beneath the Surface, an exhibition showcasing the paintings of William Crozier, staged in collaboration with a major retrospective of Crozier’s entire career held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, William Crozier: The Edge of the Landscape.

Profoundly affected by post-war existential philosophy, Crozier consciously allied himself and his work with contemporary European art throughout the 1950s and 1960s, towards painters such as Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung and Nicolas de Staël. His visits to Paris in 1947, 1950, and 1953 were formative experiences: “Anyone who was not young in 1949 and who did not sit in the Café de Flore or the Deux Magots, where Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were as gods, simply cannot appreciate the sheer excitement that enveloped the young of Europe emotionally, physically and intellectually.”

William Crozier: Savagery Beneath the Surface shows the continuum that runs through all of Crozier’s work, presenting his expressionistic prowess that distills primitivism with the unease of modernity.

A major publication produced by IMMA will accompany this exhibition with new essays by Riann Coulter, Katharine Crouan, Mark Hudson, Enrique Juncosa, Seán Kissane, and Sarah Turner.