This Fall, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta will use masterpieces from 1913, 1929, 1950, 1961, and 1988 to examine how work from those five years shaped the development of modern art. Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 ›› 2013 explores how styles and techniques in artistic production unfolded in relation to cataclysmic world events: from 1913, when Futurist Umberto Boccioni sculpted the foreboding Unique Forms of Continuity in Space just ahead of WWI, to 1988 when Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther highlighted the excesses of the West the year before the fall of the Berlin wall.  Curator Michael Rooks has commissioned a site-specific installation by Sarah Sze, Book of Parts (Centennial),  which will premiere alongside new works by Aaron Curry and Katherina Grosse to demonstrate the continuum between art of the past century and art of the present day. The exhibition is an extension of the multi-year collaboration between the High and the Museum of Modern Art.

 

Fast Forward will be on view from October 13, 2012 through January 20, 2013. I hope you will consider developing coverage of this exhibition which will bring an influx of masterpieces to Atlanta. A press release is below, and I would be happy to provide you with more information.

 

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Ariel

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HIGH MUSEUM OF ART EXAMINES PIVOTAL MOMENTS IN 20^th CENTURY ART, CULMINATING IN THE ART OF TODAY

 

Exhibition Includes Commission by Sarah Sze and New Work by Aaron Curry

 

“Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 ›› 2013”

October 13, 2012–January 20, 2013

 

 

ATLANTA – The High Museum of Art will explore the development of modern and contemporary art by selecting key years in art history that represent watershed moments in the 20^th century.  “Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 ›› 2013” will present approximately 100 works of art created during the years 1913, 1929, 1950, 1961, and 1988, as well as the art of today.  The exhibition will examine the years prior to the start of World War I and the Great Depression, the lead-up to postwar American prosperity and the years preceding the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the fall of the Berlin Wall and how artists responded to and were influenced by events on the world stage.

 

The exhibition will also present the works of contemporary artists Aaron Curry, Katharina Grosse, and Sarah Sze, whose work extends themes first explored in the 20^th century and updates them for the 21^st century. “Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 ›› 2013” will be one of the largest surveys of 20^th-century art to ever be exhibited in the southeastern United States. Co-organized by the High Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), as part of the two museums’ ongoing collaboration, the exhibition will be on view from

October 13, 2012, through January 20, 2013.

 

“These periods of time ushered in new ways of thinking that forever transformed the artistic landscapes,” said Michael E. Shapiro, the High’s Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., Director. “We’re delighted that this partnership with MoMA will enable our visitors to see how the work of artists from different eras was influenced by major historical events.”

 

The exhibition will include iconic works from each represented year, including:

·        1913: Umberto Boccioni’s Futurist sculpture “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”

·        1929: Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist painting “Illumined Pleasures”

·        1950: Willem de Kooning’s landmark of Abstract Expressionism, “Woman, I”

·        1961: Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop art masterpiece “Girl With Ball”  

·        1988: Jeff Koons’s famed porcelain sculpture “Pink Panther”

 

Michael Rooks, the High’s Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, has chosen Aaron Curry, Katharina Grosse and Sarah Sze to highlight the art of 2013.  Sarah Sze, who will represent the United States in the 2013 Venice Biennale, will create a site-specific installation titled Books of Parts (Centennial). Aaron Curry will debut three new works—monumental, polychromed steel sculptures titled “Boo,” “Thing” and “Deadhead”—which will be installed on the Museum’s lawn.  Rounding out the selection, a large three-dimensional painting by Katharina Grosse will be on display on the skyway level of the Wieland Pavilion. 

 

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Ariel Hudes
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