Zurich / Zug / New York
BANNERS Sept – Oct, 2012 Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich
Galerie Gmurzynska will exhibit a group of large scale paintings on banners commissioned by art world fixture Bill Katz and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The banner project was initiated for a benefit for the Louis Falco Dance Company Katz co-hosted with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1977. Including the most important artists working at the time, such as Robert Indiana, Neil Jenny, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. A major catalogue will accompany the exhibition with texts by Edward Albee, Robert Storr, Chuck Close, Francesco Clemente, Philip Taaffe and Donald Baechler.