VISIONARY COINCIDENCE: Click here to view photos of opening
Leonard Tourné Gallery, is pleased to present "Visionary Coincidence,"
an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Strong-Cuevas and photography by Christophe von Hohenberg.
The exhibition opened October 1, 2014 and will run through October 20th. The gallery is located at 46 East 65th Street in Manhattan.
Over 150 guests and collectors were in attendance at the opening reception. Among the collectors were Elizabeth Biron, Earl McGrath, Baron Roger de Cabrol, Marc de Gontaut Biron, Julio Santo Domingo, Carolina von Humboldt, Lavina Snyder, Sylvia Hemingway, Marina and Francesco Galesi, Maria Estrany Gendre, Alain and Cecilia de Grelle, Miss Trisha Capri, Isabelle Orlansky, Isabel Biderman, Henry Jarecki.
Christophe von Hohenberg is a portrait, documentaryand lifestyle photographer. In 1979, he was discovered by American Vogue and his photographs were displayedin the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Since then, he has worked with such publications as Interview, Art Forum, Vanity Fair, Geo, German Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Fortune, Hamptons Magazine,German Vogue and French Vogue. His book, Another Planet: New York Portraits 1976-1996, was published in 2014 following his critically acclaimed Andy Warhol: The Day the Factory Died, which received the Photo District News Photo Book Award and the AIGA Book Award in 2007.
In addition to the MoMA, von Hohenberg's work hasbeen displayed at the Gray Art Gallery, the Stephen Keszler Gallery, Affirmation Arts and Staley-Wise Gallery in New York, New York; the Rudolf BudjaGallery in Salzburg, Austria; the America House Cultural Center in Munich, Germany; the Goss Gallery in Dallas, Texas; and Aretha Campbell Fine Art inLondon, England. His exhibitions have been reviewed in German Vanity Fair, English Vogue and The Daily Telegraph. Born in New York, von Hohenberg lives in New York City and Mexico City. His photographs canbe found in private collections in the United States, Europe and South America.
Strong-Cuevas' work explores inner consciousness, outer space and communication through space and time. In the words of distinguished art critic DonaldKuspit, "Strong-Cuevas's sculpture is rooted in primitive art, with its bold structures, expressived directness, communal symbolism, and conviction of cosmic absolutes. It is also rooted in Cubism, with its awareness of the dialectical ambiguity of appearances, perhaps most evident in Picasso's use of frontal and profile views of the face in a single image, at once integrating them yet allowing them their difference. Primordial expression and sophisticated perception are the alpha and omega of modern art." Born in Paris, Strong-Cuevas lives and works in New York, where she studied under John Hovannes at the Art Students League of New York and worked on projects with Toto Meylan. Her work has been exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions and is represented in the collections of the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut; Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York; Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York; Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey; and the Smithsonian-affiliated Long Island Museum in Stony Brooke, New York.