Between the window and the screen: hiding in the light: Leon Golub's transparencies [Essay in retrospective exhibition catalogue]

From 20 October 2017 to 15 January 2018, Fondazione Prada presented at its Milan venue a research and information program on the Chicago art scene developed in the aftermath of World War II, through three exhibitions, curated by Germano Celant as a whole: “Leon Golub”, “H. C. Westermann” and “Famous Artists from Chicago. 1965-1975
The project was accompanied by three publications in the Fondazione’s Quaderni series, which analyze the themes of the shows through essays by Germano Celant and Jon Bird, interviews with Don Baum and H. C. Westermann and other unpublished materials.
Jon Bird contributed the essay Hiding in the Light: Leon Golub’s Transparencies to the catalogue of the exhibition Leon Golub at Fondazione Prada, Milan. The exhibition focuses on aspects of post-war Chicago art. Golub’s works here have been drawn from public and private collections in Europe, America and Japan.