Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Installation view of À Rebours, Venus Over Manhattan, 2012
Odilon Redon, Des Esseintes, 1888
À Rebours
May 9 - June 30, 2012
Opening: Wednesday, May 9th, 10:00 pm - 2:00 am
Venus Over Manhattan
980 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10075
(New York, NY) – Venus Over Manhattan, a new exhibition space created by art collector and writer Adam Lindemann, will open to the public in New York City on May 9, 2012 with the inaugural exhibition À rebours. Including several dozen works of art spanning the 19th century to the present, this show will remain on view through June 30th.
The exhibition takes its title from Joris-Karl Huysmans' 1884 anti-novel À Rebours, known in English either as "against the grain" or “against nature.” This tale of fin-de-siècle decadence tells the story of the Duc Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric aristocrat who recoils from the manners and values of conservative Parisian society and flees to the countryside to immerse himself in art collecting and exotic fetishism.
À Rebours at Venus over Manhattan explores the notion of “against the grain” through a selection of more than 50 works including African fetishes and an 18th century Hawaiian chief's feather cape. The artists represented range from Odilon Redon – the favorite of the book’s protagonist - to Henri Fuseli, Gustave Moreau, Felicien Rops, Franz von Stuck, Lucas Samaras, William N. Copley, Jeff Koons, Glenn Brown, Salvador Dali, Walter Dahn, David Hammons, and Bernard Buffet, as well as Jeni Spota, Andra Ursuta and Gavin Kenyon.
The exhibition is accompanied by a free zine, available in print at the gallery, or for download online at www.venusovermanhattan.com.
For information about the exhibition, please contact info@venusovermanhattan.com
For press inquiries, please contact press@venusovermanhattan.com
Hope Atherton
Untitled (Sphinx), 2011
bronze
24 x 23 1⁄2 x 16 inches
61 x 59.6 x 40.6 cm
Big Fat Black Cock, Inc.
Untitled, 2011
oil on canvas
39 x 47 x 2 in
100 x 120 x 5 cm
Glenn Brown
Little Death, 2000
oil on panel
26 3⁄4 x 21 1⁄4 in
68 x 54 cm
Olivia Berckemeyer
Frozen Endurance, 2010
unique cast bronze
27 1⁄2 13 3⁄4 x 19 3⁄4 in
70 x 35 x 50 cm
Bernard Buffet
Les clowns musiciens, le tuba, 1991
oil on canvas
88 1⁄2 x 78 3⁄4 in
225 x 200 cm
James Lee Byars
The Golden Scroll, 1969
pencil on paper
116 x 14 in
294.5 x 35.5 cm
Rafael de Cardenas
Console (from Black meets White series)
painted MDF
30 x 66 x 15 in
76 x 167.6 x 38 cm
César
Candelarbres (Pair), 1997
bronze
27 1/2 x 26 x 8 in
69.8 x 66 x 22.8 cm
edition 3 of 8
John Chamberlain
Murmurous Moto, Maestro, 1991
painted and chromium plated steel
73 1⁄4 x 45 x 57 1⁄4 in
186 x 114.3 x 145.4 cm
Dan Colen
To be titled, 2011
tar and feathers on canvas
59 x 73 in
149.9 x 185.4 cm
George Condo
Des Esseintes Contemplating Artifice, 2012
oil on canvas
10 x 8 in
25.4 x 20.3 cm
Walter Dahn
Les premiers jours du Printemps, 1986
acrylic on canvas
98 3/8 x 74 7/8 in
250 x 190 cm
Salvador Dalí
Cartel des Don Juan Tenorio, 1949
gouache and watercolor on card
11 x 14 in
27.9 x 35.5 cm
Salvador Dali
Peineta, c. 1949
gouache and pencil on paper
5 1/8 x 6 1/4 in
13 x 16 cm
Llyn Foulkes
For Stan the Man, 2011
mixed media
12 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄4 in
31.1 x 23.5 cm
Llyn Foulkes
I Left My Heart at Wounded Knee, 1975
mixed media on board
21 1/4 x 17 3/8 in
54 x 44.1 cm
Henry Fuseli
Fairy Mab, 1793
oil on canvas
27 15/16 x 36 in
70.8 x 9.14 cm
David Hammons
Untitled, 1996
mixed media with African masks
56 x 9 in
142.2 x 22.8 cm
Damien Hirst
With Dead Head, 1981/1991
photographic print on aluminum
22 1⁄2 x 30 in
57.2 x 76.2 cm
Jivaro Shrunken Head, c. 1890
16 x 5 x 5 1⁄2 in
40.8 x 12.4 x 13.5 cm
Gavin Kenyon
Crumpled, 2010
wood, iron, tin
16 x 40 x 24 in
40 x 102 x 61 cm
Jeff Koons
Violet-Ice (Kama Sutra), 1991
colored Murano glass
13 x 27 1⁄4 x 16 1⁄2 in
33 x 69 x 42 cm
Figure de reliquaire Mbulu Ngulu (Kota)
c. late 18th- early 19th century
wood, iron, copper, brass, dried plant material
17 1⁄4 in (h)
43.5 cm (h)
Jonathan Meese
Generalissimoz-Monte-Christo, 2007
bronze
17 1⁄4 x 15 3⁄4 x11 3⁄4 in
44 x 40 x 30 cm
Carlo Mollino
Untitled, early 1960s
polaroid
4 1⁄4 x 3 1⁄4 in
10.8 x 8.3 cm
Gustave Moreau
Apollon recevant les offrandes des bergers, c. 1885
oil on panel
10 1/8 x 8 5/8 in
27.5 x 21.5 cm
Papuan Bone Daggers
19th century
human and animal bone
various dimensions
Odilon Redon
Head of Cyclops, 1880
graphite pencil
4 9/16 x 6 1⁄4 in
11.5 x 15.9 cm
Odilon Redon
Des Esseintes, 1888
lithograph on chine applique
edition of 50
image: 5 x 3 1⁄2 in (12.7 x 8.9 cm)
sheet: 17 1⁄2 x 12 1⁄4 in (44.5 x 31.1 cm)
Odilon Redon
Le Chevalier Mystique, 1892
charcoal, pastel, and chalk on buff paper
45 3/8 x 35 in
115.3 x 89 cm
Odilon Redon
Mercury, n.d.
charcoal and graphite on buff paper laid down at the edges on board
16 3/8 x 14 5/8 in
41.7 x 37.2 cm
Felicien Rops
L’Homme à la femme sauvage, c. 1878-1881
pastel on paper
9 x 6 1/8 in
22.8 x 15.5 cm
Lucas Samaras
Fowl III iMovie No. 463, 2006
MOV video file with sound
5:00 minutes
Lucas Samaras
Head Chest Liquid, 2002
iris print
28 1⁄4 x 22 1⁄4 in
71.8 cm x 56.5 cm
Steven Shearer
Davos, 2007
oil on linen
34 x 30 in
86.4 x 76.2 cm
Dash Snow
A Means to an End, 2002
table with mixed media
37 x 18 1⁄2 x 20 1⁄4 in
94 x 47 x 51.4 cm
Jeni Spota
Portrait of a Nineteenth Century Frenchman, 2012
19th Century French playing card, lace and textiles; oil on canvas, paper, cardboard, dominoes, dice, string and oil sealant
18 1/2 x 21 1/2 in
47 x 54.6 cm
Daniel Turner
Untitled 5150 (1/1/12), 2012
bitumen emulsion, vinyl and wood
16 1⁄2 x 14 x 1 1⁄2 in
41.9 x 35.5 x 3.8 cm
Piotr Uklanski
Untitled, 2012
mixed media
124 x 82 1⁄2 36 in
315 x 209.6 x 91.4 cm
Piotr Uklanski
Untitled (Shemale), 2009
platinum print
30 3/8 x 29 5/8 in
77.1 x 75.2 cm
Andra Ursuta
Breath Hold (Discipline and Vanish), 2010
cast urethane and poly rope
dimensions variable
Banks Violette
Bergen Chair, 2006-07
bronze, steel, propane tank
24 x 36 x 28 in
61 x 91.4 x 71.1 cm
Franz Von Stuck
Inferno, 1908
oil on canvas
50 1⁄2 x 88 1⁄4 in
128.3 x 224.1 cm
Andy Warhol
An American Indian (Russell Means), 1976
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
42 x 50 in
106.7 x 127 cm
Francesca Woodman
I. 135, Untitled, Rome, Italy, 1977-78
gelatin silver print
8 x 10 in
20.3 x 25.4 cm
Venus Over Manhattan is a new exhibition space in New York City created by art collector and writer Adam Lindemann. The new gallery opened to the public on May 9, 2012 with a group show titled A rebours.
It’s been in the rumor mill for a while, and now the famously cocky collector and New York Observer columnist Adam Lindemann has announced that he’s opening his own gallery, called Venus Over Manhattan, at 980 Madison Avenue.
