Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art at MoMA, New York until 23 Mar 09

Posted on November 6, 2008 at 9:49 AM.

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Exhibition Title: Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art

Artist Name: Recent acquisitions on view for the first time include works by Matthew Barney, Nan Goldin, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, and David Wojnarowicz.
Dates: September 10, 2008-March 23, 2009
Website: http://www.moma.org

Exhibition Description:

This is the fifth in a series of MoMA's ongoing installations that brings together more than 100 works of film and performance, photography, painting, sculpture, prints, drawing, and video drawn from the museum's own collection. Here is Every is an attempt to link today's artists with their historical predecessors from the 1970s, an era whose cultural and sociopolitical shifts profoundly impacted the current diversity of contemporary art.

The topics studied involve the relationship between the body and sculpture, the Vietnam War and its legacy, the representation of the changing urban landscape, political dissent, and the radical transformation of media culture, cumulatively mapping a narrative through the art of the recent past. The exhibition has been organized by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Chief Curator of Drawings and MoMA. This installation has been made possible by The Bank of New York Mellon.

The title of the exhibition was taken from collaged text included in Bruce Nauman's installation Cones Cojones (1973-75), a new acquisition on view for the first time at MoMA. This piece is simple in its material form and execution, combining drawing, performance, and sculpture, that invites the visitor to enter a space created by concentric circles of masking tape. Enormous "cones" begin at the center of the earth, extending upward through the gallery and into infinite space. The texts that are included in the work are hypnotic and disturbing, kinesthetic and psychological.

Description:

Image: David Wojnarowicz
American, 1954-1992
Fire, 1987
Synthetic polymer paint and pasted paper on plywood, two panels
6 x 8' (182.9 x 243.8 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Agnes Gund and Barbara Jakobson Fund
© 2008 Estate of David Wojnarowicz

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