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MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH
RON MUECK
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a special exhibition of work by renowned contemporary sculptor Ron Mueck, an exceptional artist and a virtuoso of hyperrealistic sculpture.
Ron Mueck’s Untitled (Seated Woman), 1999, in the Modern’s permanent collection, became a community favorite when it was first put on exhibit for the opening of the Modern’s new building in 2002. Since that time, the Museum has continued to receive numerous comments, e-mail messages, and inquiries from visitors about this much-loved work of art. Thirteen works will be on view in the special exhibition, including Untitled (Seated Woman), 1999; the critically acclaimed Dead Dad, 1996–97, a scrupulously rendered, three-foot-long sculpture of the artist’s father lying naked on the floor; In Bed (2005-06), a twenty-foot-long sculpture of a woman lying tucked in bed; and Baby, 2000, a ten-inch-long replica of a newborn infant. A thirty-minute video showing the artist at work will also be part of the exhibition, along with examples of his working materials and casts.
DECLARING SPACE
Declaring Space focuses on the work of four artists whose works had a dramatic impact on the complex development of abstract space and color in the years following World War II: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein. The curator, Michael Auping, sees the work of each of these artists as representing a different stage in the expansion of the grand space abstract painters were imagining in the 1950s and 1960s. He comments, "To my mind Rothko draws back the curtains on the opening up of this space. Newman emphatically ‘declares’ an almost totemic space, while Fontana literally slices through the picture’s plane with a razor, and Klein, as he pronounced it, leaps into the void." Creating complex and dramatic philosophical and visual metaphors, these highly influential artists crossed the boundary of pictorial space, entering a new realm of abstract theater.
MARTIN PURYEAR
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a major exhibition of the sculpture of the acclaimed American artist Martin Puryear (b.1941) organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The retrospective features approximately forty-five sculptures, following the development of Puryear's artistic career over the last thirty years. Puryear's works, often deceptively simple, can be associated with the sentiments of his Minimalist contemporaries, but his supremely quiet, poignant forms continually defy further categorization and reflect his own unique style. These often monumental sculptures are distinctly sophisticated, especially in regard to the artist’s skills as a woodworker.
Organized by John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art
STILLNESS IN TIME: TERESA HUBBARD AND ALEXANDER BIRCHLER
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Curator Andrea Karnes present an exhibition of photographs and videos by the collaborative artistic team of Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, their first major survey in an American museum.
Hubbard and Birchler’s signature works from 1989 to the present are included in the exhibition. The survey begins with the artists’ earliest photographic series, which prefigured their videos, and moves on to their works of the present day. Stillness in Time examines Hubbard and Birchler’s longtime interest in the early histories of photography and cinema, which has provided them a unique perspective on the medium of video. This exhibition reveals how, by presenting picturesque, often brilliantly saturated imagery in vaguely narrative loops, Hubbard and Birchler create videos that operate in an ethereal zone between realism and reverie.
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