FALL 2008: September 13, 2008–February 9, 2009Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms
The Wexner Center presents the only U.S. installation of Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms, a dazzling and immersive exhibition featuring more than 700 items. Including films, videos, paintings, drawings, prints, wallpaper, installations, objects, audio recordings, and extraordinary archival material, the exhibition focuses on concepts at the heart of Warhol’s work: consumer culture, sexual identity, social transgression, and the eradication of distinctions between high and low culture. Divided into three main sections—TV-Scape, Filmscape, and Cosmos—the show sheds new light on the oeuvre of the celebrated Pop Art master (1928–1987) who was inarguably among the most influential artists of the 20th century. The works in the show—which will fill the entirety of the Wexner Center galleries—date from 1949 to 1987. This show was organized by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (where it opened in Fall of 2007) and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (where it closed on May 4, 2008) and curated by Eva Meyer-Hermann, an independent curator based in Cologne, Germany. Berlin-based design firm chezweitz & roseapple will oversee the installation design, as it has at all venues. The show will also be on view October 8, 2008–January 11, 2009 at London’s Hayward Gallery. An international symposium and other events at the Wexner Center are planned for the fall. It is accompanied by a catalogue.
2009-10 Season
Luc Tuymans
The Wexner Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are co-organizing the first major retrospective in the U.S. of the work of Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, one of the most highly regarded artists of his generation. Tuymans represented his country at the 2001 Venice Biennale, participated in Documenta XI, and was recently featured in a major exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. Using a muted palette to create images that can be enigmatic and disarmingly stark, Tuymans explores issues of history and memory, photography and painting. At the same time, his works evoke a powerful sense of history, investigating such themes as colonialism in the Belgian Congo, the Holocaust, and Christ’s Passion. Co-curators: Helen Molesworth and Madeleine Grynsztejn. The show opens at the Wexner Center and will then tour to SFMOMA and the Dallas Museum of Art. The catalogue features essays by Molesworth, Grynsztein, and Bill Horrigan.
