Hirshhorn - Salvatore Scarpitta: Traveller

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Hirshhorn - Salvatore Scarpitta: Traveller

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http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/ ... -scarpitta

(exhibit brochure in PDF)
July 17, 2014 to January 11, 2015 (Lower Level)
A fascinating and singular figure in postwar art, Salvatore Scarpitta (1919–2007) created a powerful body of work that ranges from nonobjective abstraction to radical realism. Scarpitta’s career linked the worlds of art and car racing, moving from the avant-garde cultural circles of postwar Rome to the banked dirt oval speedways of rural Maryland and Pennsylvania. Focusing on his shaped and wrapped canvases, race cars, and sleds, Salvatore Scarpitta: Traveler illuminates themes that occupied the artist throughout his life: risk, movement, death, and rebirth. Deeply admired in Europe where he began his career, Scarpitta has yet to be fully recognized in his native United States. This will be the first solo presentation of his work at an American museum in over a decade, and the first ever on the East Coast.
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Salvatore Scarpitta, Sal Cragar, 1969 and Trevis Race Car (Sal Gambler Special), 1985. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. Trevis Race Car (Sal Gambler Special) is a gift of Stella Alba Cartaino and Gregory O’Neill, 2014. Photo: Lee Stalsworth
Really cool exhibit. Small, but cool. If you're down in the area check it out.
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I need to go see this.
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wow, that looks awesome. i love the hirshhorn, will check it out, thanks for the tip!
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