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Robert Indiana

Past exhibition
May 3, 2019 – February 28, 2020 Kasmin Sculpture Garden
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  • Kasmin is proud to present a new exhibition of three monumental sculptures by Robert Indiana (1928-2018) exhibited on the gallery’s rooftop sculpture garden, on view from The High Line with access at 28th Street. This is the first time the three works have been shown together, and the first significant exhibition of Indiana’s sculpture since 2018’s Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective at Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY. An additional work will accompany the rooftop exhibition in High Line Nine, Gallery 3.
  • Installation view, Robert Indiana at the Kasmin Sculpture Garden New York, Kasmin Gallery, May 3, 2019 – February 28, 2020 © 2019 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Robert Indiana at the Kasmin Sculpture Garden New York, Kasmin Gallery, May 3, 2019 – February 28, 2020 © 2019 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Robert Indiana at the Kasmin Sculpture Garden New York, Kasmin Gallery, May 3, 2019 – February 28, 2020 © 2019 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Robert Indiana at the Kasmin Sculpture Garden New York, Kasmin Gallery, May 3, 2019 – February 28, 2020 © 2019 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Robert Indiana at the Kasmin Sculpture Garden New York, Kasmin Gallery, May 3, 2019 – February 28, 2020 © 2019 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, Robert Indiana at the Kasmin Sculpture Garden New York, Kasmin Gallery, May 3, 2019 – February 28, 2020 © 2019 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
  • Each of the three works is an iteration of Indiana’s iconic LOVE series, articulated in three languages: English, Spanish, and Hebrew, or LOVE, AMOR, and AHAVA. The works represent three of New York’s most historic and influential dialects, celebrating immigration and lingual diversity in one of the most visited public art spaces in the city. Indiana’s archetypal stacked LOVE composition, with its bold serif lettering of VE stacked beneath the L and off-kilter O, is one of the most ubiquitous works of art of the 20th century. Belonging to a series of iconic paintings, sculptures, and prints dedicated to the theme of love that the artist commenced in the mid-1960s, the work is both accessible and complex in meaning. Layered with personal references, erotic metaphors, religious underpinnings, and socio-political commentary—particularly as a symbol of 1960s idealism—Indiana’s use of the word love goes beyond the confines of cultures and language.

    AHAVA is realized in cor-ten steel, THE AMERICAN LOVE is colored blue, red, and white, and AMOR a striking red and yellow. The works all have significant provenance: an iteration of AHAVA is on permanent display at the Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel, as a memorial tribute to Bishop James A. Pike; AMOR has stood in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; and LOVE has been installed in several major cities across North America, Europe, Asia.

    On view concurrently in the gallery’s High Line Nine space (507 West 27th Street) is Electric American Love, White Blue Red, 2000. The work was first conceived in 1966, crystallizing many of Indiana's recurring themes. The artist's life-long fascination with American identity and symbolism is evoked by the color format, coupled with a playful sequence of lights that recall city diner signs and blinking traffic—features of the urban landscape that Indiana drew upon throughout his career.

    The publicly-sited Kasmin Sculpture Garden continues the gallery’s long-standing dedication to the medium. Since October 2018, the exhibition program has put on view monumental works by Max Ernst and Joel Shapiro.

    Artwork © Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 
  • Works
    • Robert Indiana, AMOR (Red, Yellow), 1998-2006
      Robert Indiana, AMOR (Red, Yellow), 1998-2006
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  • About the Artist

    Robert Indiana

    Robert Indiana

    One of the preeminent figures in American art since the 1960s, Robert Indiana (1928–2018) played a central role in the development of assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop art. Indiana, a self-proclaimed “American painter of signs,” created a highly original body of work that explores American identity, personal history, and the power of abstraction and language, establishing an important legacy that resonates in the work of many contemporary artists who make the written word a central element of their oeuvre. His work continues to resonate through contemporary art and popular culture worldwide.  Indiana’s artwork has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, and his works are in the permanent collections of important museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Tate Modern, London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Menil Collection in Houston; the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany; the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands; MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien) in Vienna, Austria; the Art Museum of Ontario in Toronto; and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He has also been included in numerous international publications and is the subject of a number of monographs.

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