Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 5–September 9, 2015. Photo: David Heald
Guggenheim Museum
Sunday August 6, 2015 11:00AM – 12:30PM
Meeting Place: Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128
Guggenheim Museum Tour
Committed to innovation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation collects, preserves, and interprets modern and contemporary art, and explores ideas across cultures through dynamic curatorial and educational initiatives and collaborations. With its constellation of architecturally and culturally distinct museums, exhibitions, publications, and digital platforms, the foundation engages both local and global audiences.
We will be viewing the exhibitions Doris Salcedo and Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim.
Doris Salcedo: This major retrospective will survey the searing, deeply poetic work of Doris Salcedo (b. 1958, Bogotá, Colombia). Over the past three decades, Salcedo’s practice has addressed the traumatic history of modern-day Colombia, as well as wider legacies of suffering stemming from colonialism, racism, and other forms of social injustice. Originating in lengthy research processes during which the artist solicits testimonies from the victims of violent oppression, her sculptures and installations eschew the direct representation of atrocities in favor of open-ended confluences of forms that are fashioned from evocative materials and intensely laborious techniques. Many of her works transmute intimate domestic objects into subtly charged vessels freighted with memories and narratives, paradoxically conjuring that which is tragically absent. The Guggenheim’s presentation of Doris Salcedo will occupy four levels of the museum’s Tower galleries. It will feature the artist’s most significant series from the late 1980s to the present, as well as a video documenting her remarkable site-specific public projects and architectural interventions.
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim: Bringing together over one hundred works from the Guggenheim’s contemporary collection,Storylines examines the diverse ways in which artists today engage narrative through installation, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and performance. For these artists, storytelling does not necessarily require plots, characters, or settings. Rather, narrative potential lies in everyday objects and materials, and their embedded cultural associations. In projects created through extensive research, acts of appropriation, or performance, the artists in Storylines uncover layers of meaning, turning to individual experience as a means of conveying shared stories, whether real or fictional.
This visit will be guided by Dr. Jihey Kim, a PhD candidate in the art history program at the Graduate Center, City University on New York who is currently teaching history of art, twentieth-century photography, and East Asian visual culture at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, Montclair State University and Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
For more information about the museum tours please contact info@ahlfoundation.org
Image and description taken from https://www.guggenheim.org/.
