![]() ![]() ![]() “As part of that celebration, we decided, for the first time ever to ask artists to look at the collection,” said Armstrong. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, at the press preview. Solomon Robert Guggenheim, who died a decade before the museum was relocated to its current unmistakable location, would have delighted in this show, as he wanted a “risk taking and radical” home for his passion, said Richard Armstrong, director of the Solomon R. This rebellious exhibition embraces and reinvents the wild spirit of the mining dynasty heir, who, with the expertise of artist Hilla von Rebay, built a phenomenal collection of modern and contemporary art. Holzer’s selections include Louise Nevelson’s monumental wall sculpture Luminous Zag, Night (1971), Adrian Piper’s performative self-portrait The Mythic Being: Smoke (1974), and an installation of Chryssa’s neon works and a canvas from the 1960s and 1970s. Holzer chose works created exclusively by women to blast a floodlight on gender disparity and the exclusion of women from the art-historical canon. This is “the Guggenheim,” as New Yorkers call it, as you’ve never seen it before, through the lens of great living masters who tackled a new role to reinvigorate the museum’s longtime devotion to daring displays by artists who have forever transformed the global art landscape. It features some 300 works (88, including the Bontecou, never before on display), unearthed from storage and culled from the world-renowned collection by Holzer, Cai Guo-Qiang, Paul Chan, Julie Mehretu, Richard Prince, and Carrie Mae Weems. The first artist-curated exhibition ever mounted at the museum opens tomorrow and is on view through Jan. ![]() “Jenny Holzer was ecstatic to show it.”īontecou’s Untitled was selected by Holzer for her Good Artists presentation, celebrating six decades in the inimitable building on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue for Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection. It has an internal violence,” said Nancy Spector, artistic director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, in an interview following opening remarks at today’s press opening. As a whole, the exhibition will provide a refreshing opportunity for the museum to critically reflect on its own history. The exhibition will include nearly 300 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and installations that engage with the cultural discourse of their time-from the utopian aspirations of early modernism to the formal explorations of midcentury abstraction to the sociopolitical debates of the 1960s and ’70s, with each curated section providing a distinctive opportunity for new interpretations of the collection. Creating unique and critical dialogues with the Guggenheim’s history and the history of modern and contemporary art, these artists will each interpret the collection through their own individual perspectives. 1953, Portland, Oregon), this presentation brings together collection highlights and rarely seen works from the turn of the century to 1980 (along with some surprises orchestrated by the artist-curators). 1949, Canal Zone, Panama), and Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), Richard Prince (b. 1950, Gallipolis, Ohio), Julie Mehretu (b. 1957, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China), Jenny Holzer (b. This full-rotunda exhibition celebrates the institution’s extensive twentieth-century holdings through the intervention of six contemporary artists, all of whom have contributed to shaping the museum’s history with their own pivotal solo shows. Guggenheim Museum’s painting storage facility, New York. ![]()
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