The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
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Eyes Closed/Eyes Open
dal 7/8/2012 al 6/1/2013
wed-mon 10.30am-5.30pm, fri 10.30am-8pm, closed tuesday

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Sarah Jarvis



 
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7/8/2012

Eyes Closed/Eyes Open

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

Recent Acquisitions in Drawings. The works by Franz Erhard Walther, Willem de Kooning and Martha Rosler reveal a range of creative, intellectual, and critical impulses-whether serving as an intimate record of the artist's practice, or purposefully crafted to address an assumed wider audience.


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This exhibition is culled from the past two years of acquisitions by MoMA’s Department of Drawings. Anchored in various explorations of the late 1960s, these works reveal a range of creative, intellectual, and critical impulses—whether serving as an intimate record of the artist’s practice, or purposefully crafted to address an assumed wider audience.

German artist Franz Erhard Walther created a suite of “work drawings” to illustrate (both functionally and conceptually) his First Work Series (1963–69), a group of 58 interactive sculptural objects, on display at the Museum for the first time since their original presentation here in 1969.

While roughly contemporary, Willem de Kooning’s “Eyes-Closed” drawings of 1966, which were sketched blindly by the artist, offer a counterpoint to Walther’s project and seem to embrace the traditional role of drawing as a tool of private expression, while Martha Rosler’s Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful photomontage series of 1967–72 turns a critical eye to the era’s sociopolitical context and expanding media sphere.

Organized by Christian Rattemeyer, The Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator of Drawings.

Drawings Collection Exhibitions are made possible by Hanjin Shipping.

Image: Willem de Kooning. Untitled. 1966. Charcoal on paper, 10 x 8″ (25.4 x 20.3 cm). Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs. © 2012 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Press Contact:
Sarah Jarvis, (212) 708-9757, sarah_jarvis@moma.org
Margaret Doyle, (212) 408-6400, margaret_doyle@moma.org

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