"Contemporary Art from the Collection" Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
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The works selected for this installation highlight the debates around economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity that have permeated artistic practices since the late 1960s. Including approximately 130 works drawn from all of the Museum's curatorial departments, the installation features a variety of approaches to art-making and follows a chronological path. The exhibition begins with works such as a haunting “body print” by David Hammons (1969), which depicts the artist in an act of prayer, and Pino Pascali's "Machine Gun" (1966), a sculpture he made out of parts from a Fiat 500 during a period of intense social unrest in Italy. Concluding the show are two projects that explore larger themes of humanity and loss through current events: Huma Bhabha’s expansive print series "Reconstructions" (2007), in which the artist memorializes lost civilizations in her native Pakistan, and Paul Chan's "Waiting for Godot" (2007), a project based on the artist's restaging of Samuel Beckett's play in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
[Image: Georg Herold "Will the Russians Go to War?" (1984) wood, mixed mediums on paper, and metal 7 x 10 ft. x 3 in.]
Media
Schedule
from June 30, 2010 to September 19, 2011
Artist(s)
Lynda Benglis, Daniel Buren, Paul Chan, General Idea, the Guerrilla Girls, David Hammons, Yoko Ono, Kara Walker, Simon Hantaï, Kalup Linzy, Pino Pascali, Robert Rauschenberg, Adrian Piper, Gordon Matta-Clark, Sherrie Levine, Bruce Nauman, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Glenn Ligon, Huang Yong Ping, Lucy McKenzie, Sergej Jensen, Gedi Sibony et al.