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Metaphor & Meaning: Prints by Susan Rothenberg & Marino Marin The Creiger-Dane Gallery will be showing the prints of Susan Rothenberg and Marino Marini from November 3 to December 30, 1999. The show complements the exhibition of Susan Rothenberg's paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from November 18 to January 15, giving viewers an opportunity to see the work of Rothenberg in more than one medium. Gallery hours are 10 am to 5:30 pm, Tuesday through Saturday, or by appointment. The Creiger-Dane Gallery is pleased to present the prints of two eminent twentieth century artists, Susan Rothenberg and Marino Marini. Both artists have employed the image of the horse in their works as a metaphor for the human condition, so much so that their work is often identified with this subject. However, the meaning of the horse is different for each artist, and both have moved from the equine image to other equally potent subjects: for Marini earth goddesses, dancers and jugglers; for Rothenberg diverse images from imaginary portraits to abstract and symbolic works. For Marini, a native of Italy, the horse had always been identified with a conqueror or a hero, such as the statue of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the Campidoglio in Rome, or the virtuoso handling of the horse in Renaissance times by such artists as Donatello and Verocchio. Marini, however, places the horse in jeopardy and defeat, a vision perhaps influenced by his experience of World War II. As he said, "My riders express the anxiety aroused by the events of my epoch...Thus I seek to symbolize the last stage in the dissolution of a myth, the myth of the heroic, triumphant individual, the uomo di virtu of the humanists." For Rothenberg the horse is in part a formal, figurative persona, a way of experimenting with different abstract versions of a presence without being totally divorced from realism. In her later work animal and human figures still appear, but are often dismembered or floating forth from the unconscious. The surface of her prints and paintings are worked and reworked in dense, dark lines, animating the surface with evidence of the artist's hand. Both Rothenberg and Marini work in other media besides the print, Rothenberg mainly in paintings, Marini in sculpture and painting. Their prints do not copy their work in other media, but have an independent life of their own, often exploring new territory not seen in other work. Both artists are adept at covering the joy of living as well as the pain inherent in the human condition. - Alicia Faxon, Ph.D Adjunct Curator, Creiger-Dane Gallery If you are interested in any of these works, feel free to email geeta@creiger-dane.com. The navigation buttons on the upper right will take you to the top (this page), previous, and next page in this show. You may click on our logo at any time to return to our home page. We hope you enjoy your visit, and invite you to sign our Guest Book. |
 Read Reviews of this Show Take 1 Metaphore and Meaning Take 2 Metaphore and Meaning Living | Atrs Metaphore and Meaning  Red Bamboo Susan Rothenberg Untitled (May #1) Susan Rothenberg Untitled (May #2) Susan Rothenberg Untitled (Hartford Proof) Susan Rothenberg Untitled (Black Arm) Susan Rothenberg Monkey in a Tree Susan Rothenberg Blue Violin Susan Rothenberg Tre Grazie (Three Graces) Marino Marini Bizzarria Marino Marini Risveglio Marino Marini ll Teatro delle Maschere (Theater of Masks) Marino Marini Presentazione II Marino Marini Marino from Shakespeare II Marino Marini Cavaliere Marino Marini Cavaliere e Cavallo (Horse & Rider) Marino Marini La Traviata Marino Marini Price List Susan Rothenberg & Marino Marini |