Shown: Installation view of Adolph Gottlieb: 1960s at Galeria Elvira González, Madrid, Spain, 9/21/2004-11/20/2004. Artwork shown (left to right): Untitled (1968), Untitled (1968), Untitled (1968), Untitled (1968), and Untitled (1968)
In the Fall of 2004, Galeria Elvira González opened an exhibition titled Adolph Gottlieb: 1960s in Madrid, Spain. The exhibition included 22 works of art by Gottlieb which explored his artistic development through the 1960s.
Below, we have selected images, press, and ephemera from our archives to shed some light on this important exhibition.
Installation view of Adolph Gottlieb: 1960s at Galeria Elvira González, Madrid, Spain, 9/21/2004-11/20/2004. Artwork shown (left to right): Tilted Wall (1968) and Asterisk on Brown (1967)
Installation view of Adolph Gottlieb: 1960s at Galeria Elvira González, Madrid, Spain, 9/21/2004-11/20/2004. Artwork shown (left to right): Looming (1967) and Untitled (1967)
Installation view of Adolph Gottlieb: 1960s at Galeria Elvira González, Madrid, Spain, 9/21/2004-11/20/2004. Artwork shown (left to right): Violet Field (1968), Untitled (1969), and Enclosure (1961)
Installation view of Adolph Gottlieb: 1960s at Galeria Elvira González, Madrid, Spain, 9/21/2004-11/20/2004. Artwork shown (left to right): Tilted Wall (1968), Asterisk on Brown (1967), and Notations (1966)
Installation view of Adolph Gottlieb: 1960s at Galeria Elvira González, Madrid, Spain, 9/21/2004-11/20/2004. Artwork shown (left to right): Notations (1966), Roman Three (1962), Three White Discs (1967), and Acrypol #1 (1964)
"The prototype of the new image invented by Gottlieb was simple: in the upper half of the canvas, a circular or elliptical shape, and in the lower half, a pictorial stain like a burst. They are coldness and energy, the formed and unformed, the cosmos and chaos. The dialectic of opposites played an important role in Gottlieb's painting from the very beginning."
–Guillermo Solana in the exhibition catalogue
An announcement of the exhibition's opening featuring Acrypol #1, 1964, acrylic on paper, 26 x 20"
Reception of the Exhibition
The exhibition was reviewed widely in the Spanish press. Below is a selection of reviews of the exhibition.
"The fundamental advantage of the exhibition is the simultaneous presentation of the work produced in the same period, the fruit of the same interests and dedicated to unraveling a series of problems determined by that particular creative moment... In the case of Adolph Gottlieb, this knowledge is based on the work developed in the sixties, a work of diverse execution but with a common argument, the relationship established between the background and the burst, one of the most recurrent pictorial relationships in abstraction."
–"Adolph Gottlieb. 1960", El Punto De Las Artes, October 15, 2005.
'En La Era Atómica'', ABC Cultural Sulpplement (Blanco y Negro Cultural), October 10, 2004
Artwork in the Exhibition
