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Philip Taaffe: Ecstasy

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From May 18 to June 16, 2010, Gagosian Gallery will host Philip Taaffe’s exhibition entitled ‘Ecstasy.’ Taaffe’s composite images come about from his deep contemplation over the interaction between form and image in art, nature, architecture and archaeology, which he processes through a unique and active relationship that this interaction has with the history of abstract painting in the West and the East. Designing plays a major role in the artist’s art.

Philip Taaffe was born in Elisabeth New Jersey in 1955 and studied at the Cooper Union New York. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions such as the Carnegie International, Sydney Biennale, the Whitney Biennial of American Art, and at the same time major institutions such as IVAM, Valencia (2000), Galleria d’Arte Moderna, San Marino (2004), and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2008), have organized exhibitions to analyze his body of work. His pieces can be found in many public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid. An exhibition with his paintings from 2000 to 2010 will be hosted at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in May 2011.

Taaffe lives and works in New York.

For more information please visit: http://www.gagosian.com