Oct 20 2012

“Eye of the Beholder” by Serge Hollerbach

Frants Gallery Space (New York) cordially invites you to attend the opening reception for

“Eye of the Beholder”

A selection of works by Serge Hollerbach

Friday,
October 26th, 2012
6:30 – 10:00 PM

RSVP 212 343 0104
or e-mail at anna@frantsgallery.com

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“I am I and my circumstance”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Meditations on Quixote
1914

On the cover of the collected essays by Sergey Lvovich Hollerbach “Notes of an Artist”(1), there is one of his drawings included in the exhibition.  The depicted person looks a little bit like the author, but Sergey Lvovich maintains that the drawing was not conceived as a self-portrait, even though one could not deny the resemblance of certain traits.  This, so to speak, is a generalized image of an artist.  He is depicted in profile with a sketchbook and a pen in hand, and he seems unaware that he is caught by a beholder, being fully engaged in his work.

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