The Shaping of New Visions
dal 15/4/2013 al 20/4/2013
Segnalato da
Man Ray
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Aleksandr Rodchenko
Germaine Krull
Gerhard Ruhm
Helen Levitt
Daido Moriyama
Robert Heinecken
Ed Ruscha
Martha Rosler
Bernd Becher
Hilla Becher
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia
Walid Raad
VALIE EXPORT
Roxana Marcoci
15/4/2013
The Shaping of New Visions
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
Photography, Film, Photobook. Covering the period from 1910 to today, the exhibition offers a critical reassessment of photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements and in the development of contemporary artistic practices.
This exhibition, covering the period from 1910 to today, offers a critical reassessment of photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements - with a special emphasis on the medium's relation to Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Constructivism, New Objectivity, Conceptual, and Post-Conceptual art - and in the development of contemporary artistic practices.
The shaping of what came to be known as "New Vision" photography bore the obvious influence of "lens-based" and "time-based" works. El Lissitzky best summarized its ethos: "The new world will not need little pictures," he wrote in The Conquest of Art (1922). "If it needs a mirror, it has the photograph and the cinema."
Bringing together over 250 works from MoMA's collection, the exhibition features major projects by Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Germaine Krull, Gerhard Rühm, Helen Levitt, Daido Moriyama, Robert Heinecken, Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, and Walid Raad, among others. Photographic history is presented as a multivalent history of distinct "new visions," rooted in unconventional and innovative exercises that range from photograms and photomontages to experimental films and photobooks.
Organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography.
Image: VALIE EXPORT. Einkreisung (Encirclement) from the series Körperkonfigurationen (Body Configurations). 1976. Gelatin silver print with red ink, 14 x 23 7/16" (35.5 x 59.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Carl Jacobs Fund © 2012 VALIE EXPORT / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VBK, Austria
Major support for the exhibition is provided by Peter Schub, in honor of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz.
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