‘American Tutti-Frutti’ Public Presentation by Porter McCray

Attend the “American Tutti-Frutti” public presentation by Porter McCray at Ashkal Alwan.

During the 1950s, the Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a series of exhibitions of modern American art that traveled through many European cities. Those were the exhibitions that helped establish in Europe the postwar common cultural identity based on internationalism, modernism, and individualism. One such exhibition, Modern Art in the USA, was brought in 1956 to Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia. This was the first time that works by Gorky, de Kooning, Pollock, Kline, Motherwell, Rothko, etc. were exhibited in a socialist country. This also happened to be the last exhibition where Pollock appeared as a living artist.