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David Ligare: History
SAPERE AUDE. Dare to be wise. Immanuel Kant’s directive is embodied in the work of David Ligare. For thirty-five years, Ligare has dedicated his work to Classicist ideals: Truth, Beauty, Balance, Form. With full awareness of duplicitous and shifting contexts surrounding contemporary art, the artist pursues these ideals without irony. His work is earnest and in History, his second solo exhibition with Hirschl & Adler Modern, Ligare engages us to renew our own desire for knowledge.
This exhibition masterfully underscores the central tenets of David Ligare’s commitment to painting. His ultimate belief that we are in need of a renewed desire for knowledge shapes the conceptual framework of his paintings. Ligare has sought to understand and reveal in his work some of the most fundamental elements of Western thought. The paintings in History share these secrets and they do so elegantly, simply and beautifully.
David Ligare (born 1945, Oak Park, IL) studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He has shown his paintings in many solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, London, Rome, San Francisco, Seattle and elsewhere. His work can be found in numerous permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; and the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. In June 2015, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA will present the retrospective: DAVID LIGARE: California Classicist. This traveling exhibition will be accompanied by a major monograph on the artist. Ligare lives and works in Salinas, CA.
