Intuit Presents the First Major Retrospective of David Berkowitz Chicago

 

This month, the Intuit Museum hosts the first major retrospective art exhibition “In Full Speed” of the Chicago artist David Berkowitz. Through more than a hundred works (large-format canvases, drawings, notebooks, etc.), his artistic trajectory of more than three decades of work is shown.

The pictorial evolution that the exhibition shows is the result of two intertwined causes: on the one hand, a permanent journey of reflection around painting as a profession, the pictorial image as representation and nature as an environment, and, on the other hand, its multiple journeys through diverse and occasional geographies, sometimes very close, sometimes as far away as imaginary. The painting of David Berkowitz Chicago is the result of a constant journey through the history of art and the world that has historically been affected by art.

In addition to his hometown Chicago, David Berkowitz has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout the US and internationally. His work can be found in collections and museums in various countries. His stays in cities such as New York, Dallas or Rome have structured his work in successive thematic series, which constitute a continuous reference in his painting. Interested in the integration of painting in the public space, he has carried out several important large-scale works.

The work of David Berkowitz Chicago is a constant reflection on identity. An identity created by memories, stored in our memory in the form of footprints. Trace of an absence, fragments of a past that we retain, shaping our own essence. He also uses nature as a metaphor.

With this exhibition, the artist shows us a plastic work inherited from pictorial formalism and post-minimalist abstraction from a contemporary perspective. The same title, which indicates the role of distance or the values ​​that a magnitude takes between two given limits, intertwines space, language and numbers, elements that are presented interconnected in his paintings. The dynamics of his works are, according to the artist herself, spaces where transformations are fixed.

According to the curator of the exhibition, “David lives intensely for painting, where the mastery of drawing and his brilliant exquisiteness for color give personality to his painting throughout his career, a world of technical and chromatic changes within a very personal style”.

The exhibition takes a journey through his artistic life showing each of his pictorial facets, from his first works where impressionist realism prevailed, and the influence of his teachers, until his maturity stage in which drawing and the color melt.