Museum of the City of New York : Twin Towers and the City: Paintings by Romain de Plas

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The Twin Towers and the City: Paintings by Romain de Plas

Sep 3, 2011 through Dec 4, 2011

The Twin Towers and the City features eight oil paintings by the artist Romain de Plas (1971- 2002). De Plas, trained at Brown University and the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, spent the year after September 11, 2001 painting this series of expressionist paintings – a tribute and a meditation on the events of that day – from his studio on Rivington Street in downtown Manhattan. The artist died suddenly before the series was complete, but the surviving eight paintings, never before exhibited, depict the towers in a range of moods, from calm to agitated, poignantly paying homage both to the buildings and to those who lost their lives there.

This installation is presented in conjunction with The Twin Towers and the City: Photographs by Camilo Jose Vergara.

The Twin Towers and the City: Paintings by Romain de Plas is made possible with the generous support of Cultural Services of the French Embassy and an anonymous donor.

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