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Page 4 of 7 Lowe Art Museum. Charles Biederman: An American IdealistFrom Nov 22nd, 2008 through Jan 18th, 2009 Charles Biederman: An American Idealist is a touring exhibition organized by the Frederick Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, on view at the Lowe Art Museum through January 18th, 2009. The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the life and work of Charles Biederman, an acclaimed American modernist who pioneered new directions in geometric abstract art and in the Constructivist movement. The exhibition features a broad array of paintings and sculptures created during a prolific and influential artistic career. It includes early American-scene inspired oils, biomorphic abstractions, early wood and string constructions from the 1930s, and finally Biederman’s late metal reliefs.  As a young artist, Biederman fed from the art scenes of Chicago, Paris, and New York, where he lived while experimented with most of the new artistic styles known as modernist. He developed his most notable work, however, while living in Red Wing, Minnesota, where he moved and remained until the end of his life. In Minnesota, Biederman ventured on a personal search for new ways of making art. During this time, he published a number of works on philosophy, science, and art. Some of his books include Art as the Evolution of Visual Knowledge, Letters on the New Art, The New Cézanne, and Art, Science, Reality among others.Biederman’s lasting achievement resides in his late work and the ideas that shaped it. Beginning in 1942, he started constructing reliefs with projecting forms that reflected a vision of nature inspired by the French painter Cézanne. The patches of unmodulated color in Cézanne’s paintings became the touchstone for Biederman’s artistic maturity. Structurism, his definition for what he saw as his most important body of work, holds nature as the ultimate root of art and insists upon an abstract representation of nature as a pure color, planes, and form. Charles Biederman died on December 26th, 2004 at the age of 98. His work testifies to a significant contribution to the history of the utopian modern project of abstract art. Lowe Art Museum 1301 Stanford Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146 305.284.3535 www.lowemuseum.org |
