April 5–May 3, 2014
Opening reception: Tuesday, April 8, 6–8pm
Hunter College
The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
West Building, SW corner of 68th St. & Lexington Ave.
New York, NY
T +1 212 772 4991
www.hunter.cuny.edu/art/galleries
Venezuelan artist Héctor Fuenmayor’s historic work Citrus 6906 (originally Amarillo Sol K7YV68) (1973/2014) will be installed in the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery from April 5 to May 3. The conceptual and environmental work, now in the Colección Cisneros, was initially realized in 1973 for the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Sala Mendoza in Caracas, Venezuela. Fuenmayor covered the entire exhibition space with industrial yellow paint: Amarillo Sol (Sunshine Yellow) K7YV68 in Caracas in 1973; Citrus 6909 at the Leubsdorf. The paint’s commercial code forms the title of the work.
Héctor Fuenmayor was born in Caracas in 1949, where he continues to live and work. He began his study of art at the Cristóbal Rojas School of Visual and Applied Arts in 1966, and had his first solo exhibition in 1973 in Caracas, where he showed regularly through the 1970s. Among his most important group exhibitions are the 5th Havana Biennial, in Cuba in 1994; Re-Aligning Vision at the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery of the University of Texas, Austin in 1997; Jump Cuts: Venezuelan Contemporary Art at the Americas Society in New York in 2005 and at the CIFO Art Space, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami in 2007.
