Two exhibitions

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

A new installation by Terence Koh. In his immersive, typically monochromatic environments a seemingly unknown ritual is about to take place, where a sense of loss simultaneously suggests regeneration. Modernism is a new presentation of work from the permanent collection, who looks mainly at artists working in the first half of the 20th century.

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Terence Koh

For his first solo museum show in the United States, Terence Koh is creating a new installation for the Whitney's Lobby Gallery. In Koh's immersive, typically monochromatic environments - in which minimalist and baroque aspects of his sensibility vie for dominance - a seemingly unknown ritual is about to take place, where a sense of loss simultaneously suggests regeneration. From drifting powder silencing rooms, and constellations of cryptically linked objects that move from literally disjunctive realms (upstairs/downstairs, inside/outside, dark/light) as well as more conceptual ones, to pristine, perfectly crafted containers that become coffins for shattered glass and mirror, the glitter of black beads, burnt objects, residing within -- Koh's gestures evoke isolation and secrecy, but also protection and ecstasy.

Modernism

Modernisms looks mainly at artists working in the first half of the 20th century - George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Ralston Crawford, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, and John Sloan, among others - artists whose works, both figurative and abstract, pushed the margins of American art outward. This presentation reflects the multiple strands of modernism that characterize 20th-century American art, recognizing that various “modernisms" overlap and intermingle.

Image: Terence Koh

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Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner
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