Henri Matisse
The Silence Living in Houses
1947
László Moholy-Nagy
Cop I (Kupferbild)
1936
Instead of mourning the end of summer, look forward to fall exhibitions! Members preview Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight this Wednesday and Thursday before it opens to the public. Join today.
Carmen Herrera (b. 1915), Irlanda, 1965. Acrylic on canvas with painted frame, 34 ¾ x 34 7/8 in. (88.3 x 88.6 cm). Collection of Pérez Simón. © Carmen Herrera
Don’t miss the “ravishing” (The New York Times) exhibition Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight, closing on Monday, January 9. Lines of Sight focuses on the groundbreaking work of Carmen Herrera, who was born in Havana, Cuba, and is still making art at 101 years old.
Open today! Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight presents fifty abstract works by the pioneering artist Carmen Herrera (b. 1915; Havana, Cuba). Focusing on the years 1948 to 1978 in which she developed and refined her hard-edge geometrical style, Lines of Sight is the first museum exhibition of her work in New York City in nearly two decades. Today, at the age of 101, Herrera continues to work almost every day in her studio.
[Carmen Herrera (b. 1915), Wednesday, 1978. Acrylic on canvas, 66 × 42 in. (167.6 × 106.7 cm). Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany, M 12-346 © Carmen Herrera; courtesy Lisson Gallery]
Identity is a dream that is pathetically absurd. You dream of being yourself when you have nothing better to do. You dream of yourself and gaining recognition when you have lost all singularity. Today we no longer fight for sovereignty or for glory, but for identity. Sovereignty was a mastery; identity is merely a reference. Sovereignty was adventurous; identity is linked to security (and also to the systems of verification which identify you). Identity is this obsession with appropriation of the liberated being, but a being liberated in sterile conditions, no longer knowing what he is. It is a label of existence without qualities. Now, all energies - the energies of minorities and entire peoples, the energies of individuals - are concentrated today on that derisory affirmation, that prideless assertion: I am! I exist! I’m alive, I’m called so-and-so, I’m European! A hopeless affirmation, in fact, since when you need to prove the obvious, it is by no means obvious.
Jean Baudrillard - Impossible Exchange (via hisdudenessposts)
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