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Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

A detail section of one of Frankenthaler's large canvases

Palazzo Strozzi presents the most extensive retrospective ever held in Italy dedicated to one of the most revolutionary artists of the twentieth century, Helen Frankenthaler. The exhibition provides an in-depth overview of Frankenthaler's work, placing her art in dialogue with her famous Color Field and Abstract Expressionist contemporaries: Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Morris Louis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, and Anne Truitt.

This exhibition ran from September 27, 2024 to January 26th, 2025 and has now concluded.

The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through large canvases, works on paper, and sculptures, creating a path that highlights the artist's extraordinary originality. The exhibition includes loans from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and from renowned international museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Organized by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in collaboration with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, and curated by Douglas Dreishpoon, Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné, the exhibition is arranged chronologically, spanning from the 1950s to the early 2000s. Frankenthaler's innovations are showcased alongside paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by her contemporaries, highlighting the synergies and affinities among these key figures of twentieth-century art.

Here is a video to promote the exhibition.