First comprehensive presentation of Rothschild Collection at MoMA, Apr 22 - Jun 27

Posted on March 24, 2009 at 11:10 AM.

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Exhibition Title: Compass in Hand

Artist Name: Lee Bontecou, Joseph Beuys, Donald Judd, Hanne Darboven, Elizabeth Peyton, John Currin, Amelie von Wulffen, Mona Hatoum, Lucy McKenzie, Paulina Olowska, Nate Lowman and Ján Mančuška
Dates: April 22--July 27, 2009
Website: http://www.moma.org

Exhibition Description:

MoMA will be presenting an exhibition of more than 300 works that will be the first comprehensive presentation of this significant collection, a donation of approximately 2,500 works on paper by more than 650 artists that entered the Museum's collection in May 2005.

The collection was assembled over a two-year period and ranges from the 1930s to 2005 with a heavy focus on contemporary practice. It provides a unique panorama of the state of drawing today.

This exhibition is the largest drawings exhibition ever mounted at MoMA and will survey the collection and show the various methods and materials within the styles of gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, and systems-based and conceptual drawings.

Description:

Image: Marcel Odenbach. German, born 1953.
You Can't See the Forest for the Trees. 2003.
Cut-and-pasted printed paper, cut-and-pasted colored paper, ink, and pencil on two pieces of paper, 7’ 1 ¾” x 9’ 9 ¾” (217.8 x 299.1 cm).
The Museum of Modern Art. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift.
© 2009 Marcel Odenbach/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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