Below is MoMAs press release for its upcoming exhibition, Forever - TopicsExpress



          

Below is MoMAs press release for its upcoming exhibition, Forever Now, with writing so horrific the press office staff ought to be be tarred and feathered in the main atrium of the museum. Forever Now presents the work of 17 artists whose paintings reflect a singular approach that characterizes our cultural moment at the beginning of this new millennium: they refuse to allow us to define or even meter our time by them. A profligate mixing of past styles and genres can be identified as a kind of hallmark for this moment in painting, with artists achieving it by reanimating historical styles or recreating a contemporary version of them, sampling motifs from across the timeline of 20th-century art in a single painting or across an oeuvre, or radically paring their language down to the most archetypal forms. The artists in this exhibition represent a wide variety of styles and impulses, but all use the painted surface as a platform, map, or metaphoric screen on which genres intermingle, morph, and collide. Their work represents traditional painting, in the sense that each artist engages with paintings traditions, testing and ultimately reshaping historical strategies like appropriation and bricolage and reframing more metaphysical, high-stakes questions surrounding notions of originality, subjectivity, and spiritual transcendence. Forever Now includes works by Richard Aldrich, Joe Bradley, Kerstin Brätsch, Matt Connors, Michaela Eichwald, Nicole Eisenman, Mark Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Dianna Molzan, Oscar Murillo, Laura Owens, Amy Sillman, Josh Smith, Mary Weatherford, and Michael Williams. The exhibition is organized by Laura Hoptman, Curator, with Margaret Ewing, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and will be open to the public from December 14, 2014 thru April 5, 2015. For further information please visit: moma.org Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 18:11:46 +0000

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