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Max Protetch Gallery is located at 511 West 22nd Street in Chelsea, New York.
Gallery History
Max Protetch opened his first gallery in 1969 at the age of 23 while pursuing a graduate degree in Political Science at Georgetown University and spending weekends in New York looking at art. The Gallery has had a 37-year evolution from its beginnings in Minimal and Conceptual art, with a base in Pop art and a strong interest in architecture through the 70s and 80s. During his years in Washington, Protetch represented Andy Warhol and other Pop artists. He gave Vito Acconci his first one-person show and was showing conceptual artists such as Sol LeWitt, Joseph Kosuth, On Kawara, Robert Berry, and Doug Hubler as early as 1970. Kosuth and Art Language Press Group also had one person shows during those years. Early performance art by Dan Graham and Dennis Oppenheim was presented at the Gallery. Through the 70s, artists such as Don Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Joel Shapiro, Jo Baer, Lawrence Weiner and Carl Andre exhibited. Some of the above-mentioned artists were included in a group show called "Political Art" with Dorthea Rockburne, Daniel Buren and Robert Morris. This show was the only of its kind to deal with the Marxist and political/economic involvements of Minimal and conceptual art.
A constant throughout the gallery’s history has been an emphasis on the question of what is appropriate to be seen in a gallery outside of the traditional fine arts. In 1978 the gallery moved to New York and began showing architectural drawings. Over the course of the last three decades it has shown many of architecture’s contemporary masters, including Aldo Rossi, Robert Venturi, John Hejduk, Michael Graves, Peter Eisenmann, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Daniel Libeskind, and Samuel Mockbee. Max Protetch has represented the estates of Frank Lloyd Wright, Eric Gunnar Asplund, Luis Barragan and Aldo Rossi. The gallery also has holdings of Louis Kahn, Buckminster Fuller and Mies van der Rohe. The Gallery has also shown and represented artists with a unique involvement with public sculpture. Scott Burton is the artist who, more than any other, has been the proponent of functional sculpture.
The Gallery currently represents artists Mike Cloud, Oliver Herring, Tim Hyde, David Reed, Byron Kim, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Marjetica Potrc, Siebren Versteeg, the Estate of Scott Burton, and artists Betty Woodman and Richard DeVore, whose work comes out of the history of the vessel and shares many concerns with painting and sculpture. The Gallery took pioneering role in contemporary Chinese art since 1997, and represents Chen Qiulin, Fang Lijun, Yue Minjun, Hai Bo, Yin Zhaoyang and Zhang Xiaogang.
The Gallery organized the landmark exhibition A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals in the aftermath of September 11th, 2001. The show featured proposals for Lower Manhattan from an international group of 60 invited architects, including some of the most influential minds in contemporary architecture. Widely regarded as the most highly attended private gallery exhibition in New York history, a book was subsequently published by Harper Collins. The exhibition represented the United States in the American Pavilion at the 8th International Biennale of Architecture in Venice and the Library of Congress acquired the complete show of 124 works.
In the beginning of 2006, Max Protetch Gallery solidified an existing partnership with the Beijing-based curator Leng Lin by opening a new space for Beijing Commune, in the Chaoyang District of Beijing. Beijing Commune exhibits works by established Chinese artists such as Fang Lijun, Yin Zhaoyang, and Zhang Xiaogang as well as an emerging generation of contemporary Chinese artists. The gallery also creates a platform for Beijing Commune and Max Protetch Gallery, New York to present exhibitions by internationally established artists.
Many of our artists have achieved career highlights in the past few years. In 2006 Betty Woodman had a career-spanning retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the same year Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker Prize-wining Iraqi woman architect, had a mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Also in the past year Marjetica Potrc exhibited at the Sao Paolo Biennale and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle exhibited at the Singapore Biennale. In the summer of 2007, Tobias Putrih will represent Slovenia at the Venice Biennale and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle will also have a major installation at documenta 12.
