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'Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion' at Moderna Museet, Malmö

Starting on #malm Gallery Night, September 26, #modernamuseet #malm is presenting a comprehensive exhibition featuring a network of artists and choreographers who were active in New York in the 1960s and 70s. Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion focuses on the tension and relationship between the human body and solid objects.

Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion presents some thirty works selected from the #modernamuseet collection as well as external loans in the museum’s Turbine Hall, with works by minimalists and post-minimalists such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Richard Tuttle, many of which have never been shown before in the Öresund Region. The minimalists’ work has been described as “theatrical” and “scenic,” meaning that each piece is a non-illusionistic object that shares the gallery space with the viewer—instead of functioning like a window onto another world. Viewers become actors on a stage in which the artwork serves as a kind of prop or architectural frame.

The relationship between the human body and the solid object is clarified by innovative choreographers such as Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, and Trisha Brown who worked with many of the same artistic issues as their contemporaries in the visual arts. Artists such as Richard Tuttle and Eva Hesse also explored the relationship between body and object, but without the cold rationalism often associated with minimalism. Tuttle’s Paper Octagonal, for example, is a piece whose dimensions are related to the artist’s own body, and in Franz Erhard Walther’s work the focus is on the relationship between the viewer’s body and the artist’s fabric objects.

“What happened in art and dance during a few years in the sixties fundamentally changed the relationship between viewer and artwork,” says Magnus af Petersens, the exhibition curator. “Instead of standing outside and looking in, the viewer became a participant—and therefore a co-creator. This is the explosive political force hidden behind polished abstract surfaces. Frank Stella got it wrong: what you see is not just what you see!”

The exhibition includes works by:
Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Trisha Brown, Eva Hesse, Dan Flavin, Simone Forti, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Walter De Maria, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer, Joel Shapiro, Frank Stella, Richard Tuttle, Franz Erhard Walther, and Hannah Wilke.

Opening Weekend:
Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion opens on #malm Gallery Night, September 26, with free admission from 6:00 PM until midnight. Throughout the evening, several of Simone Forti’s dance constructions will be performed and Franz Erhard Walther’s Sehkanal will be activated, as they will again periodically throughout the exhibition period. On Sunday, September 27 at 3:00 PM there will be an artist talk with artist Richard Tuttle led by curator Magnus af Petersens.

Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion is being presented at #modernamuseet #malm until February 7, 2016, and will be shown thereafter at #modernamuseet in Stockholm from March 12 through June 12, 2016.

Invitation to the press preview on Thursday, September 24, 9:30-11:00 AM
The press is invited to an advanced viewing of Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion on Thursday, September 24 from 9:30 until 11:00 AM. Museum Director John Peter Nilsson will open the #event, followed by an introduction to the exhibition by curator Magnus af Petersens and co-curator Andreas Nilsson. The artist Richard Tuttle will attend the press preview, and Simone Forti’s dance constructions See Saw and Slantboard will be performed.

FYI: there will also be a press preview at #malm Konsthall on the same morning, starting at 11:30am. At 11:15am there will be transfer from the #modernamuseet #malm to #malm Konsthall, for journalists who wish to attend both press previews. Notify us in your RSVP to the press preview of Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion if you wish transfer to #malm Konsthall.

Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion

Moderna Museet #malm 26 September, 2015 – 7 January, 2016
Curator: Magnus af Petersens
Co-curator: Andreas Nilsson

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