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15/4/2009

The Endless Renaissance

Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach

curated by Steven Holmes

This exhibition brings historical works from the Bass Museum of Art together with contemporary works borrowed from renowned local and national collections to create a dialogue between the past and present. Included in the exhibition are works by 17th, 18th, and 19th century masters such as Delacroix, Rubens, Goya, Rigaud and Hoppner, engaged with contemporary artists that include, among others, Pieter Hugo, Joseph Beuys, Martin Puryear, Wim Delvoye, Charles Ledray, Byron Kim, Jonathan Monk and Eve Sussman.

As an example, the expression of power in the historical portrait continues in the contemporary work of Pieter Hugo whose images echo the composition of earlier masters Hyacinthe Rigaud and John Hoppner. Rigaud’s fabulous portrait of the Earl of Portland and Hoppner’s portrayal of the lithe Concannon are highly formulaic, but so is Hugo’s portrait of Abdullahi Mohammed, posing with his hyena. All three are men of power, depicted fearless, confident, baroque in their swagger. Hugo's other portraits nuance this understanding of the portrait, where uniform (justice, scout) indicates status and identity in no less potent a way than the powerful men of state and church in the High Renaissance and Baroque.

The Endless Renaissance is an exhibition that, on one hand, looks at how contemporary artists continue to quote and invoke the work of earlier artwork, and on the other hand, shows how the way that we experience the art of the past is anything but stable or predictable. Every time we look at a work of art, it becomes contemporary.

Artists:

Joseph Beuys, Joe Coleman, Gregory Crewdson, Eugиne Delacroix, Thierry Delva, Wim Delvoye, Nicole Eisenman, Peter Friedl, Francisco Josй de Goya y Lucientes, John Hoppner, Pieter Hugo, Byron Kim. Charles LeDray, Sol LeWitt, Kelly Mark, Jonathan Monk, Martin Puryear, Sharron Quasius, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Bert Rodriguez, Peter Paul Reubens, Chemi Rosado Seijo ,Thomas Struth, Huang Yongping

Guest curator Steven Holmes has curated exhibitions for The Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Kunste-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, as well as exhibitions throughout the United States and the Caribbean. His projects have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, Art in America, Art Forum, Art News, Tema Celeste, Flash Art International and Art New England. His most recent book, Festschrift, was published by Leo Press in 2008. Mr. Holmes holds a MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and a MTS from Harvard.

The Endless Renaissance is on view to the public in the Gertrude Silverstone Muss Gallery from April 17 through August 16, 2009.

Images :

Left:
Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976)
Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria, 2007
From the series The Hyena and Other Men
Digital C-Print
© Pieter Hugo, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery,
New York and Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Courtesy The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, Miami

Right:
Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1649-1743)
Hans William Bentinck, Earl of Portland,
K.G., 1698-1699
Oil on canvas
53 x 42”
Collection Bass Museum of Art

Media contact: Lee Ortega, Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Bass Museum of Art
T: 305.673.7530 x 9-2001
E: lortega@bassmuseum.org

The opening reception is Thursday, April 16, 2009.

Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Avenue - Miami
Admission: $8 general admission/ $6 seniors/students. Free for members and children under 6. Group discounts available.
Museum Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-5 pm, Sunday 11 am-5 pm, closed Mondays and holidays.

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