What Matters
Art - Exhibit
Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, December 19, 2009 - August 22, 2010
Worcester Art Museum
Contemporary Gallery
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
Recent art practices continue to evolve in the shadow cast years ago by Marcel Duchamp, whose simple yet extraordinary act in 1914 of selecting a common bottle rack and signing it wrenched that object out of the “useful” context and placed it in the context of “a work of art.” If art offers an opportunity to rethink our engagement with the world around us, those artists who are drawn to exploring materials that are familiar yet altered as to their origins and uses seem equally invested in material experience as a way of deepening our perceptual capacities so we might arrive at new understandings of what matters.
Drawn primarily from the Museum's permanent collection, the exhibition considers works spanning two decades (1988-2008) by a roster of leading contemporary artists including Claire Barclay, Willie Cole, Taylor Davis, Melvin Edwards, Heide Fasnacht, Tony Feher, Jim Isermann, Jim Lambie, Jodie Manasevit, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Doris Salcedo, Yinka Shonibare, and Andrew Witkin.
Cost: Free with Museum admission. 17 and under always free.
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Suggested Audiences:
Elders, Adult, College, High School, Middle School, Elementary, Preschool, Toddler, Infant
Website: http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/what_matters.html
E-mail:
information@worcesterart.org
Last Modified: April 1, 2010 at 10:34 AM
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What Matters
Art - Exhibit
Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, December 19, 2009 - August 22, 2010
Worcester Art Museum
Contemporary Gallery
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
Recent art practices continue to evolve in the shadow cast years ago by Marcel Duchamp, whose simple yet extraordinary act in 1914 of selecting a common bottle rack and signing it wrenched that object out of the “useful” context and placed it in the context of “a work of art.” If art offers an opportunity to rethink our engagement with the world around us, those artists who are drawn to exploring materials that are familiar yet altered as to their origins and uses seem equally invested in material experience as a way of deepening our perceptual capacities so we might arrive at new understandings of what matters.
Drawn primarily from the Museum's permanent collection, the exhibition considers works spanning two decades (1988-2008) by a roster of leading contemporary artists including Claire Barclay, Willie Cole, Taylor Davis, Melvin Edwards, Heide Fasnacht, Tony Feher, Jim Isermann, Jim Lambie, Jodie Manasevit, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Doris Salcedo, Yinka Shonibare, and Andrew Witkin.
Cost: Free with Museum admission. 17 and under always free.
Suggested Audiences: Elders, Adult, College, High School, Middle School, Elementary, Preschool, Toddler, Infant
Website: http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/what_matters.html
E-mail: information@worcesterart.org
Last Modified: April 1, 2010 at 10:34 AM
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