Intersections Art Projects
Intersections
Intersections is a new series of contemporary art projects that explores-as the title suggests-the intriguing intersections between old and new traditions, modern and contemporary art practices, and museum spaces and artistic interventions. Whether engaging with the permanent collection or diverse spaces in the museum, the projects suggest new relationships with their own surprises.
Many of the projects also riff on the nontraditional nature of the museum's galleries, activating spaces that are not typical exhibition areas with art produced specifically for those locations.
Fall and Winter projects:
Brain Storm, Jennifer Wen Ma
October 15, 2009-January 3, 2010
In this video projection with sound, a man and horse travel through a stormy landscape, suggesting an inner journey. The piece will be displayed in the Phillips house in conversation with artwork that evokes spatial or temporal travel, including landscapes by Paul Cézanne, Arthur Dove, and Wassily Kandinsky. Video stills from Brain Storm will be affixed to the glass walls of the walkway from the house to the Goh Annex, reiterating the notion of travel. Brain Storm was commissioned for Guggenheim Bilbao in 2009.
Icarus, Barbara Liotta
October 22, 2009-January 31, 2010
Conceived as a portrait of human energy and inner strength and as a symbol of flight and aspiration, this large-scale sculpture is made of strings and stones and suspended from the ceiling. Icarus is paired with portraits from the museum's permanent collection, including Eugène Delacroix's Paganini, Amedeo Modigliani's Elena Povolozky, and Chaim Soutine's Woman in Profile.
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Pulse, Tayo Heuser
November 19, 2009-October 31, 2010
Tayo Heuser translates the luminosity of Mark Rothko's paintings into three dimensions with large-scale wall-mounted sculptures of glowing, colored forms drawn in ink, designed to rise along the spiral flow of the Goh Annex stairwell. The work was created in response to both the architecture of the stairwell and the paintings in the museum's Rothko Room.
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Upcoming projects:
Linn Meyers
February 11-May 2, 2010
Kate Shepherd
June 10-September 5, 2010
Jae Ko
October 1, 2010-January 2, 2011
Jennifer Wen Ma, Brain Storm, (A still from video installation), 2009
Barbara Liotta, Icarus, 2008. © Greg Staley
Tayo Heuser, Pulse. © Greg Staley
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