Peter Soriano

Peter Soriano (born 23 September 1959) is a contemporary French-American artist and sculptor whose work has been exhibited in galleries and museums since 1994.

He is represented by Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. in New York City, by Galerie Jean Fournier in Paris, and by Galerie Bernard Jordan in Zurich. His works are included in the collections of the Colby College Museum of Art in Maine,[1] the Morgan Library & Museum in New York,[2] the Harvard Art Museums at Harvard University,[3] the Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC) in Paris, the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, and the Wanås Foundation in Sweden, among other institutions.

Career

Soriano's first solo exhibitions, in the 1990s at Lennon, Weinberg in New York and at Galerie Jean Fournier in Paris, established his career as a sculptor[4] known for his brightly colored, pop-surealist biomorphic works in polyester resin described as "part toy, part tool, part creature."[5] While some critics saw Soriano's resin sculptures as cartoony and cheerful—"good-humored...industrial biomorphism," to quote the New York Times[6]—others suggested that the works were more complex and "vexing"[7] than they first appeared.

In the mid-2000s, while in a six-month residency at the Atelier Calder in Saché, France,[8] Soriano began moving in a "radical" new direction.[9] His new work, which now combined sculpture and painting, consisted of conceptual wall installations made of aluminum tubing, steel cable, and spray paint. The critic Raphael Rubinstein, an editor at Art in America, has cited Soriano's wall installations as important and radical examples of "provisionality," a style of art intentionally made to appear "casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling."[10] In 2011, Soriano's work was included in "Provisional Painting," an exhibition at Modern Art in London that also featured work by Richard Tuttle, Julian Schnabel, and Raoul De Keyser.[11] More recently, Soriano's work has moved even further away from traditional sculpture. Eliminating the use of steel cables and pipes, his January 2013 solo exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg consisted exclusively of large, spray-painted wall murals suggestive of graffiti.[12] In the tradition of Sol LeWitt, Soriano's wall murals can be replicated by following a set of written instructions.[13]

Recent Solo Exhibitions

Background

Born in the Philippines to parents of French and Spanish descent, Soriano divides his time between Penobscot, Maine[16] and New York City, where he lives in a landmarked townhouse with his wife, Vanity Fair contributing editor Nina Munk.[26] Soriano earned an A.B. in Art History from Harvard College in 1981 before attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His paternal grandfather, Andrés Soriano, a prominent businessman and philanthropist, was Minister of Finance in the Philippines before World War II. In interviews, Soriano has credited his uncle Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo, the celebrated modern Spanish painter, as having proded him to become an artist.[27]

References

  1. ↑ ""Peter Soriano: Permanent Maintenance," Colby College Museum of Art". Colby.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
  2. ↑ "Online Catalog of the Morgan Library & Museum". Corsair.themorgan.org. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  3. ↑ "Works in Collection, Harvard Art Museums". Harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  4. ↑ "Sculpture—Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, 1994". "Peter Soriano. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  5. ↑ ""Peter Soriano: New Sculpture," Lennon, Weinberg Inc., 1999"" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  6. ↑ Pepe Karmel, "Art in Review," The New York Times, March 24, 1995]
  7. ↑ "Nancy Princenthal, "Peter Soriano at Lennon, Weinberg," Art in America, May 2003" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  8. ↑ "Atelier Calder, "Peter Soriano"". Atelier-calder.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  9. ↑ "Brian Dupont, "Where I Am Now: In Conversation with Peter Soriano," Idiom, 11 September 2012". Idiommag.com. 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  10. ↑ Lehrer, Sarah (2009-05-04). "Raphael Rubinstein, "Provisional Painting," Art in America, May 2009". Artinamericamagazine.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  11. ↑ "Modern Art, "Exhibition: Provisional Painting," 15 April - 21 May 2011". Modernart.net. 2011-05-21. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  12. ↑ "David Carrier, "In Search of the Mutable: Peter Soriano at Lennon Weinberg," Art Critical, 23 February 2013". Artcritical.com. 2013-02-23. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  13. ↑ Maine, Stephen (2013-03-01). "Stephen Maine, "Peter Soriano: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc./New York," Artillery Magazine, 1 March 2013". Artillerymag.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  14. ↑ "Colby College of Art announcement". Colby.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-15.
  15. ↑ "Galerie Jean Fournier, Press release announcing "Panorama". Galerie-jeanfournier.com. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
  16. 1 2 "CMCA, "Bagaduce ->( )<- East 19th: Peter Soriano"". Cmcanow.org. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  17. ↑ "Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., "Peter Soriano: New Work"". Lennonweinberg.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  18. ↑ "Domaine de Kerguéhennec, "Printemps 2012"" (in French). Kerguehennec.fr. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  19. ↑ "Galerie Jean Fournier, "Other Side (NUM)BERS"". Galerie-jeanfournier.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  20. ↑ Galerie Bernard Jordan, "Peter Soriano" Archived January 1, 1970, at the Wayback Machine.
  21. ↑ "Frederico Seve Gallery, "Peter Soriano"". Fredericosevegallery.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  22. ↑ "Galerie Jean Fournier, "Other Side..(...IDOL, AJAC, IONA, EMEU...).."". Galerie-jeanfournier.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  23. ↑ "Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., "Peter Soriano: New Sculptures & Drawings"". Lennonweinberg.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  24. ↑ "Galerie Jean Fournier, ''Peter Soriano: Oeuvres Récentes Réalisées à l'Atelier Calder". Galerie-jeanfournier.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  25. ↑ "Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., "Peter Soriano: New Sculptures & Drawings"". Lennonweinberg.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  26. ↑ Matt Chaban (2012-03-20). "Matt Chaban, "VF Writer Nina Munk and Artist Peter Soriano Buy P.R. Queen's Six-Story Townhouse," The New York Observer, 20 March 2012". Observer.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  27. ↑ ""Peter Soriano Interviewed By Matthias Waschek," The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-18.

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