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7/2/2013

Tara Donovan

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

“Beauty is inherent in the material itself, form follows” says Donovan.

Donovan’s works are built up in teh exhibit venue or carefully adapted and matched to the spaces in which they take form. They challenge our conventional ideas of proportion and our experience and interpretation of the things we sense and navigate amongst. In an interview in the latest issue of Louisiana Magasin, no. 37, Tara Donovan says: "I am striving to be an alchemist and to transcend the material". She experiments with materials and with the human sensory system.

This exhibition marks Donovan's first showing in Europe and presents eight of her works from the years 2004-2012, installed in the Column Hall and the Large Hall on the bottom floor of the East Wing of the museum. Sculpturally, they range from small crystalline growths to large organic landscapes with natural forms as a central reference point. Although organic, often nature-like formal idiom seems to be present, the works are always open to interpretation. Donovan is keenly aware that she is not simulating nature. It is rather an imitation of nature’s growth principles that holds her interest.

Tara Donovan (1969) lives in New York and has already made her mark on the art scene, most recently with a solo exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Centre Pompidou in Paris has a work by her in its collection which appeared in the exhibition "Elles" showing works by the museum’s female artists.

The exhibition is part of the exhibition series LOUISIANA CONTEMPORARY.

The exhibition at Louisiana has been created in collaboration with the Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandseck.

Contact
Head of Press
Susanne Hartz
Tlf. +45 8843 5052
Mobil: +45 2858 5052
Email: press@louisiana.dk

Opening: 8 February 2013

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13, Humlebaek
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday 11AM-10PM
Saturday and Sunday 11AM-6PM
Public Holidays 11AM-6PM
Monday closed
Admission
Admission DKK 95
Students with student ID DKK 85
Members of the Louisiana Club Free
Members’ guests DKK 75
Groups (min. 15) Per person DKK 90
Groups (min. 15) Students DKK 80
Guests with 25-card Free admission
Children and young people up to 18 Free admission

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