McArthur Binion

McArthur Binion (1946, Macon, Georgia) vive e lavora a Chicago, Illinois.


Dagli anni '70 ha cercato un'alternativa all'arte minimalista, attraverso la sua personale filosofia delle griglie pittoriche fuse con i suoi beni d'archivio, come le pagine delle sue rubriche telefoniche, le fotografie personali di famiglia o i documenti trovati della storia dell'Africa.


La ridotta combinazione di colori e forme di Binion racchiude non solo padronanza formale ma anche strati di significato, a partire dalla sua ricerca dell'eredità della pittura astratta modernista in relazione a un contesto più ampio, quello della necessità della società umana di lasciare tracce di sé e, al stesso tempo, per proiettarsi nel futuro. Il lavoro di Binion è fortemente politico, sebbene molto sottile. In effetti, il curatore Lowery Stokes Sims una volta ha descritto la serie DNA di Binion come "nozioni di consapevolezza di sé e scoperta di sé, una riflessione consapevole su se stesso e sul discorso storico a cui ha contribuito". I 40 anni di carriera di Binion sono stati una continua indagine sulla pittura astratta. L'inserimento distintivo dell'artista della narrativa e della storia personale e la sua enfasi sul contenuto differenzia il suo lavoro da una pratica minimalista più tradizionale.


Il lavoro di Binion è presente in diverse collezioni pubbliche e private tra cui il Whitney Museum dell'arte americana, New York; Studio Museum ad Harlem, New York; Museo di San Francisco di Arte Moderna, San Francisco; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo Nazionale di Storia e Cultura Afroamericana, Washington, DC; Cranbrook Art Museum, Colline di Bloomfield; Istituto d'arte di Detroit, Detroit; Istituto di Arte Contemporanea, Boston; Kemper Museo d'Arte, Kansas City; Museo d'arte del Mississippi, Jackson; Museo di New Orleans di Arte, New Orleans; Strauss Family Collection, Santa Fe; Museo d'Arte di Toledo, Toledo.

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Opere

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2019
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Biografia

Mostre personali
Anno
Paese, Titolo mostra, Location
2022
B, Visual:Ear / Paper:Work, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
USA, McArthur Binion: Self:Portraits, Library Street Collective, Detroit
ROK, DNA:Study/(Visual:Ear), Lehmann Maupin, Seoul
2021
F, DNA:Orange:Work, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
USA, Modern:Ancient:Brown, Lehmann Maupin, New York
2020
USA, DNA:WORK AND THE UNDER:CONSCIOUS DRAWING, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
I, Modern Ancient Brown, Museo del Novecento, Firenze
2019
USA, McArthur Binion, Ghosts: Rhythms & Haints, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
PRC, New:Work (Hong Kong), Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
ROK, Hand:Work:II, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul
HK, Hand:Work:II, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
USA, McArthur Binion, Lehmann Maupin, New York
2018
USA, Binion/Saarinen, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills
I, Ink: Work, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
I, Ink: Work, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2017
USA, Route One: Box Two, Galerie Lelong & Co., New York
2016
USA, Seasons, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
2015
USA, McArthur Binion: Re:Mine, Galerie Lelong, New York
2014
USA, DNA Study, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
2013
USA, Ghost:Rhythms, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
2012
USA, Perspectives 177: McArthur Binion, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston
2010
USA, Color Exploration: Simplicity in the Art of McArthur Binion, Univeristy of Maryland, University College Gallery, Adelphi
2009
USA, House : Work, Center Galleries at College for Creative Studies, Detroit
2008
USA, Simplicism II: The Gouaches, Audible Gallery, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago
2005
USA, Simplicism, G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago; G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, New York
2004
USA, Simplicism, G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit
2001
USA, Modern : Ancient : Brown, Alley Culture, Detroit
1990
USA, Laconic : Love : Letters; K.V.C., Fisher Theater, New Center One, Detroit
1980
USA, Drawings, Peg Alston Gallery, New York
USA, The Juices: New Paintings, Anspacher Gallery, New York
Mostre collettive
Anno
Paese, Titolo mostra, Location
2024
UK, SpaceRace, Lehmann Maupin, London
2023
USA, Neo Chicago, The Peninsula, Chicago
USA, Beyond Form, Lehmann Maupin, Palm Beach
PRC, Yuen Yeung, K11 Musea, Shanghai
USA, Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Frist Art Museum, Nashville
F, McArthur Binion – Carl Andre, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
2022
USA, Black Abstractionists: From Then ‘til Now, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
USA, Citing Black Geographies, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, New York
USA, Borrow and Steal: Appropriation from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
USA, Sense of Place, Green Naftali, New York
USA, Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
2021
RC, The Medium is Memory, Lehmann Maupin, Taipei
HBO, Black Art: in the Absence of Light, HBO Documentary
I, McArthur Binion - Sol LeWitt, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
USA, Building a Legacy: Chrysler Collects for the Future, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk
RC, The Medium is Memory, Lehmann Maupin, Taipei
2020
USA, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake Citry
USA, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
USA, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Frye Museum of Art, Seattle
2019
USA, Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago
USA, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo
USA, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston
USA, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
2017
USA, Color People, Rental Gallery, East Hampton
USA, Black and the Abstract, Part 2: Soft Curves/Hard Edges, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
USA, Through the African American Lens, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington
USA, Above and Below the Surface: Eight Artists, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
USA, Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
USA, Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
USA, Paper, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
I, VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th Venice Biennale, Venezia
USA, Picturing Mississippi, 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson

Bibliografia

Anno
Autore, Titolo pubblicazione, Data
2021
Getsy, David J., Artforum, February
2020
Ficicchia, Loredana, Corriere Fiorentino, October 24,
Arte, October
Meloni, Bruna, MAM-e, October 25,
GoNews, October
Exibart, October
Montanari, Laura, la Repubblica, October 24,
Amica, October
Pittorica, October
Franza, Carlo, il Giornale
Zarley, David, Frieze, October 29,
la Repubblica - Robinson, October
Turismo Itinerante, October 30,
2019
GoGoFirenze, October 20,
The New York times, March 23,
2017
Swirsky, Rebecca, Frieze, October
Gavin, Francesca, Financial Times, June 9

Collezioni pubbliche

Paese
Location
The Netherlands
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
United Kingdom
Zabludowicz Collection, London
United States of America
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin
Ariel Mutual Funds, Chicago
Art Bridges Foundation, Bentonville
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit
Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit
City of Detroit, Detroit
Cook County Hospital, Chicago
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fidelity Investments Art Collection
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Joyner Giuffrida Collection, San Francisco
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
Mott Warsh Collection, Flint
Museum, Winter Park
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins College, Winter Park
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Wayne State University, Detroit
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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