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MODERN ’TIL MIDNIGHT: DECLARING SPACE AND RON MUECK
Friday, October 19, 6 pm-midnight
This event is presented in conjunction with the special exhibitions
Declaring Space and Ron Mueck. Ron Mueck is on view through October 21 and
Declaring Space is on view through January 6. Tickets available at the door
or in advance, call 817.738.9215 or visit the Museum admission desk.
Join us for Modern ’til Midnight! Enjoy extended hours, live music, special
gallery activities, late-night shopping, and late-night fare from Café
Modern as we celebrate after hours on Friday, October 19, from 6 pm to
midnight. This event is open to the public. Admission is $15; free for
Modern members. Spend time in two critically-acclaimed exhibitions;
Declaring Space: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana , Yves Klein and
the last chance to see the popular exhibition, Ron Mueck which closes
October 21!
Live Music
10 pm - Peter & the Wolf
9:15 pm - Doug Burr
8:30 pm - Sleeping States
7:45 pm - Tame..Tame and Quiet
7 pm - MOM
and live DJ entertainment in the Grand Lobby
6 pm-DJ Marcosis
8 pm-DJ Sober of the Party
Film Programs
Café Modern and Lobby Bar
Happenings in the Galleries
RON MUECK
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a special exhibition of work by renowned contemporary artist Ron Mueck, 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. Twelve works are on view in the special exhibition, including Untitled (Seated Woman), 1999; 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 is also 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.
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