Merce Cunningham-Robert Rauschenberg
dal 2/11/2011 al 7/4/2012
Segnalato da
2/11/2011
Merce Cunningham-Robert Rauschenberg
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
"Dance Works I" features enormous curtains painted by Rauschenberg for one of Cunningham's dance pieces that frame other rarely seen works he made for the stage, including large-scale sculptural objects that lend new perspective to his famous "combines" of the 1950s.
The extraordinary partnership between two legendary artists is the foundation for this installation of backdrops, props, and costumes created for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC). Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) and Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), who repeatedly reshaped dance and visual art during their lengthy careers, collaborated on over 20 dance works between 1954 and 1964, a key period for both. Dance Works I features enormous curtains painted by Rauschenberg for one of Cunningham’s dance pieces that frame other rarely seen works he made for the stage, including large-scale sculptural objects that lend new perspective to his famous “combines” of the 1950s.
Over more than 60 years, Cunningham not only expanded the parameters of dance but also transformed the role of the visual arts within them. The choreographer developed relationships based on free-thinking experimentation and exchange with numerous leading artists, often bringing them into the sphere of dance for the first time. Dance Works I showcases one of the richest examples of this collaborative approach, inaugurating a series of exhibitions exploring Cunningham’s work with visual artists and drawing from the Walker’s 2011 acquisition of more than 150 works from the MCDC archive.
Curator: Darsie Alexander
The acquisition and exhibition of works from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company archive is made possible by generous support from Jay F. Ecklund, the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, Agnes Gund, Russell Cowles and Josine Peters, the Hayes Fund of HRK Foundation, Dorothy Lichtenstein, the MAHADH Fund of HRK Foundation, Linda and Lawrence Perlman, Goodale Family Foundation, Marion Stroud Swingle, David Teiger, Kathleen Fluegel, Barbara G. Pine, and the T. B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2011. Media partner Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.
Image: Merce Cunningham Dance Company performing Minutiae (1954) against the backdrop of Rauschenberg’s work of the same name
Opening-Day Gallery Talk with Darsie Alexander and Trevor Carlson: Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 6pm
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