Nature/Artifice: Contemporary Works from the Collection
April 25, 2009-February 2010
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Joseph Beuys |
The relationship between nature and artifice, reality and fiction, is central to a selection of contemporary paintings, sculpture, and video in the Museum’s collection. In some cases, natural materials - a lemon, thistles, or rocks, for example - are placed in artful arrangements or altered to extend their significance. Conversely, manufactured materials - ranging from audiotape to flip-flop sandals - may be configured to resemble natural phenomena such as a cascading waterfall or the Caribbean Sea. A number of the featured works were acquired recently and are being exhibited for the first time.
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