Peter Soriano Explained

Peter Soriano
Birth Date:1959
Birth Place:Manila, Philippines
Alma Mater:Harvard College

Peter Soriano (born 1959) is a Franco-American contemporary artist and sculptor. His works are included in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[1] the Morgan Library & Museum in New York,[2] the Harvard Art Museums in Massachusetts,[3] the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven,[4] the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, and the Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC) and Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris.

Life

Soriano was born in 1959 in Manila, in the Philippines, where his grandfather Andrés Soriano was a prominent industrialist and war hero.[5] He moved to the United States in the 1970s. He has studios in Penobscot, Maine, Paris, France, and New York City, where he and his wife, Nina Munk, own a townhouse.[6] After earning a BA in the history of art from Harvard College, Soriano studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has said that he learned painting from his uncle Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo.[7]

Work

Soriano began his career in the 1990s making large biomorphic sculptures in polyester resin. While his earliest works seemed light-hearted and reminiscent of children's toys, his later sculptures became more “vexing,” to cite a critic, suggestive of industrial tools with an indeterminate purpose.[8] [9]

In the mid-2000s, during a six-month residency at the Atelier Calder in Saché, in Indre-et-Loire in France, he started making wall installations using aluminium tubing, steel cable, and spray paint.[10] [11] The critic Raphael Rubinstein, an editor at Art in America, mentioned these works as examples of what he calls "provisional painting," a style of art intentionally made to appear "casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling."[12]

Beginning in 2012, Soriano's work became dominated by large-scale, wall drawings made of graphite, acrylic and spray paint, carried out on the basis of written instructions, as well as related drawings made on pleated Japanese paper.[13] [14] “Simply put, Soriano has become a sculptor who doesn’t make objects,” wrote John Yau.[15]

More recently, according to a museum press release, Soriano has been working on a long-term project that "documents the rapidly changing natural environment of the High North, specifically snow, glaciers, and icebergs."[16] In 2022 and 2023, one work in this project, a 28-foot-long wall drawing titled Ilulissat, Disko Bugt, a reference to the location in Greenland where the artist used "an almost scientific process of observation and documentation" to capture to impermanence of icebergs, was installed and exhibited the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland, and the Bildmuseet in Sweden.[17] [18]

Selected exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MFA Boston, The Museum Year 2011, Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs . mfa.org . 11 March 2023.
  2. Web site: Online Catalog of the Morgan Library & Museum . themorgan.org . 18 September 2013.
  3. Web site: Works in Collection, Peter Soriano, Harvard Art Museums . Harvardartmuseums.org . 10 November 2023 .
  4. Web site: "Collections / Objects / The Wave / Artist: Peter Soriano" Yale University Art Gallery . artgallery.yale.edu . 10 November 2023.
  5. News: ANDRES SORIANO, INDUSTRIALIST, 66; Philippine War Hero Is Dead—Built Business Empire. 1964-12-31. The New York Times. 2019-05-29. en-US. 0362-4331.
  6. Web site: Matt Chaban . Matt Chaban, "VF Writer Nina Munk and Artist Peter Soriano Buy P.R. Queen's Six-Story Townhouse," The New York Observer, 20 March 2012 . Observer.com . 20 March 2012 . 18 September 2013.
  7. Web site: "Peter Soriano Interviewed By Matthias Waschek," Pulitzer Arts Foundation . PDF . 18 September 2013.
  8. Pepe Karmel, "Art in Review," The New York Times, 24 March 1995
  9. Nancy Princenthal, "Peter Soriano at Lennon, Weinberg," Art in America, May 2003
  10. Web site: Atelier Calder, "Peter Soriano" . Atelier-calder.com . 18 September 2013.
  11. Web site: Brian Dupont, "Where I Am Now: In Conversation with Peter Soriano," Idiom, 11 September 2012 . Idiommag.com . 11 September 2012 . 18 September 2013.
  12. Raphael Rubinstein (4 May 2009). [4 May 2009 Provisional Painting]. Art in America. Accessed October 2018.
  13. Web site: David Carrier, "In Search of the Mutable: Peter Soriano at Lennon Weinberg," Art Critical, 23 February 2013 . Artcritical.com . 23 February 2013 . 18 September 2013.
  14. Web site: Maine . Stephen . Stephen Maine, "Peter Soriano: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc./New York," Artillery Magazine, 1 March 2013 . Artillerymag.com . 1 March 2013 . 18 September 2013.
  15. Web site: Surveyor of Shadows. 2016-10-22. Hyperallergic. en-US. 2019-05-29.
  16. Web site: Peter Soriano, Portland Museum of ArtDavid Carrier, 2022 . 30 May 2022.
  17. Web site: Peter Soriano, Portland Museum of ArtDavid Carrier, 2022 . 30 May 2022.
  18. Web site: PMA, "Down Иorth: North Atlantic Triennial" . Reykjavik Art Museum. 25 Dec 2022.
  19. Web site: Peter SORIANO – Running fix. FRAC Auvergne. fr-FR. 2019-05-29.
  20. Web site: Domaine de Kerguéhennec, "Printemps 2012" . fr . Kerguehennec.fr . 18 September 2013 . https://archive.today/20130918160003/http://www.kerguehennec.fr/expos/printemps-2012-1162785936 . 18 September 2013 . dead .
  21. Web site: CMCA, "Bagaduce -><- East 19th: Peter Soriano" . Center for Maine Contemporary Art. 18 September 2013.
  22. Web site: Colby College of Art announcement . Colby.edu . 15 November 2015.
  23. Web site: CIRCUIT announcement . CIRCUIT.it . 18 June 2018.
  24. Web site: les.artistes.2018 Lart dans les chapelles. Art contemporain et patrimoine en Bretagne. www.artchapelles.com. 2019-05-29.
  25. Web site: PMA, "Down North: North Atlantic Triennial" . Portland Museum of Art. 30 May 2022.
  26. Web site: PMA, "Down Иorth: North Atlantic Triennial" . Reykjavik Art Museum. 25 Dec 2022.
  27. Web site: PMA, "Down North / Contemporary Art in the Arctic" . Bildmuseet. 10 Nov 2023.
  28. Web site: MFA, Boston, "Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence" . Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 10 November 2023.

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