This is our 3rd piece about BERLIN in less than a week, but we couldn’t let the story of a new solo exhibit of BRUCE SARGEANT’s work pass unnoticed.
Held at Berlin’s The Ballery Gallery the exhibit is curated by NY artist Mark Beard who has dedicated the last two decades of research and accumulation to the work of Bruce Sargeant who legend has died in 1938 after a wrestling accident. His subtly toned oil paintings of young men in sports and leisure are reminiscent of classic figure painting and underline his Beaux-Art training.
Featured works by Bruce Sargeant (such as large paintings, friezes and a bronze sculpture) have been installed since 2005 in Abercrombie & Fitch‘s flagship stores in New York, Los Angeles, London, Milan, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Munich and in Tokyo.
A foreword to the Exhibit by Thomas Sokolowski, former director of the Andy Warhol Museum, places Sargeant appropriately in the pantheon of 20th-century figure painters, and the afterword of WM Hunt draws favorable parallels between Sargeant’s glorification of the male body and the work of photographers Herb Ritts and Bruce Weber.
11 April – 08 June 2019
https://theballery.com/current-works/
N.B. Beard also has another 5 artistic personas that he produces work as well as Sargeant
