Martha Rosler
dal 14/7/2000 al 8/10/2000
Segnalato da
14/7/2000
Martha Rosler
New Museum, New York
Positions in the Lifeworld
First Floor Gallery, Mezzanine
The first retrospective of one of the most influential American artists of
the last thirty years, Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World,
brings together all aspects of her seminal video works, photography,
performance, installation, and critical theory. Martha Rosler is a pioneer
in exploring the underpinnings of such contemporary cultural
phenomena as the objectification of women and the globalization of
economies. She was among the first artists to challenge the myth and
mystique of photographic reality, and has helped expand the definitions
of art by effortlessly combining an incisive critique of value systems with
a humorous and accessible narrative style.
In one of her most important projects, The Bowery in Two
Inadequate Descriptive Systems (1974/75), black and white
photographs of Bowery storefronts hang adjacent to clusters of
typewritten words that are synonyms for the word "drunk." The piece,
which avoids depictions of homeless people, pointedly subverts
documentary photography's assertion of objectivity and accuracy.
Rights of Passage (1994-96) is a series of color photographs of
highways, road signage, vehicles transporting goods, and highway
construction sites that point to the erosion of geography, history,
community, and liberty that can result from urbanization.
Martha Rosler's work is embraced within a wide range of fields
including art history, architecture and urbanism, women's studies,
sociology, cultural studies, theater, and video. Her work is an important
touchstone for succeeding generations of artists such as Cindy
Sherman, Louise Lawler and Sherrie Levine.
The New Museum is collaborating with the International Center for
Photography http://www.icp.org to present this exhibition. Martha Rosler: Positions in
the Life World was organized by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK and
Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria. A fully illustrated book
accompanies the exhibition.
The exhibition is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts. The New Museum presentation is supported by the
National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, Nancy and
Joel Portnoy, and the Producers Council of the New Museum.
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