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27/2/2007

David Smith / Jeff Wall

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

Jeff Wall
The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor
February 25–May 14, 2007

Jeff Wall (Canadian, born 1946) is widely recognized as one of the most adventurous and inventive artists of his generation. Since 1978, he has worked principally in the distinctive medium of large color photo- graphs presented as transparencies in light boxes. His unique pictorial universe ranges from gritty realism to elaborate fantasy, drawing upon an unusually broad range of sources, including nineteenth-century painting, Conceptual art, narrative cinema, and modernist photography.
This major retrospective comprises 41 works that span Wall’s career from 1978 to the present. It presents a robust assembly of ambitious and celebrated pictures, including Picture for Women (1979), Mimic (1982), The Storyteller (1986), A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) (1993), Restoration (1993), and After “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue (1999-2000). Four recent pictures will be shown for the first time in North America, including a large multi-figure composition titled In front of a nightclub (2006). Following its New York showing, the exhibi- tion will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago (June 30–September 23, 2007) and concludes its tour at SFMOMA (October 27, 2007–January 6, 2008). Organized jointly by The Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition is co-curated by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography, MoMA, and Neal Benezra, Direc- tor, SFMOMA.

Two publications will be published by MoMA to accompany the exhibition: Jeff Wall, including all of the works in the exhibition, an interview with Jeff Wall by James Rondeau, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and an essay by Mr. Galassi; and Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews is the first collec- tion of Jeff Wall’s essays and interviews to be published in English.

The exhibition is organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The New York presentation of the exhibition is made possible by Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann. Major corporate support is provided by RBC Capital Markets. The accompanying publications are made possible by Carol and David Appel.

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Focus: David Smith
The Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Gallery, fourth floor
February 28–August 6, 2007

Focus: David Smith is part of The Museum of Modern Art’s series of special collection displays highlighting noteworthy aspects of the Museum’s extensive collections. The Focus series provides an opportu- nity for in-depth and cross-disciplinary presentations that variously concentrate on a single artist’s achievement, on broader artistic manifes- tations, on particular historical moments, or on significant groupings of works. This initiative aims to animate the larger history set forth in the Painting and Sculpture galleries, ensuring that a greater number of familiar and unfamiliar works in the collection are rotated on and off view.
Focus: David Smith presents a selection of work by the American sculptor David Smith (1906–1965), drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection. With its forceful and energetic presence, Smith’s sculpture conceptually and physically grapples with themes including nature, life, and the self. These ideas ultimately defined the underpinnings of Smith’s art and found articulation in his work as well as that of his Abstract Expressionist colleagues.

Organized by Elizabeth Reede, Assistant
Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture.
Image: David Smith

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