Exhibition - Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
When
Dec 11, 2008 (Thursday) to
Oct 31, 2009 (Saturday)
Where
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (map)
1050 Independence Avenue SW
Washington, DC 20001
Washington, DC 20001
38.887569
-77.0269308
What
An important strength of the Hirshhorn Museum is its holdings in figurative art. Strange Bodies brings together some of the most praised and popular examples of figuration from the ...
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Description
An important strength of the Hirshhorn Museum is its holdings in figurative art. Strange Bodies brings together some of the most praised and popular examples of figuration from the collection to show how expressionistic and surrealistic impulses toward human representation have evolved from the early and mid-20th century to recent decades.
The tension between the enthusiastic response that figuration often receives from general audiences and the loaded, at times dark content it can carry is also explored. Moreover, the installation allows an assessment of past collection building.
Featured artists include Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon, Balthus, René Magritte, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Georg Baselitz, Lucian Freud, Robert Gober, Julian Schnabel, Franz West, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, John Currin, Ron Mueck, and Lisa Yuskavage.
Strange Bodies will also include a small gallery devoted to a survey of the museum’s in-depth but under-utilized holdings of works on paper and paintings by George Grosz - works that further demonstrate a socially-charged use of the figure.
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Ron Mueck
Untitled (Big Man), 2000
Event Information
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General Information
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Hours: Daily 10 am - 5:30 pm
Closed December 25
Address: Independence Avenue at 7th Street, SW
Metro: L'Enfant Plaza (Yellow, Green, Blue, and Orange lines) exit Maryland Avenue and 7th Street or Federal Center SW (Blue and Orange lines) or Metrobus Friendship Heights/Southern Avenue lines 30, 32, 34–36
Phone: 202-633-1000
The tension between the enthusiastic response that figuration often receives from general audiences and the loaded, at times dark content it can carry is also explored. Moreover, the installation allows an assessment of past collection building.
Featured artists include Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon, Balthus, René Magritte, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Georg Baselitz, Lucian Freud, Robert Gober, Julian Schnabel, Franz West, Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, John Currin, Ron Mueck, and Lisa Yuskavage.
Strange Bodies will also include a small gallery devoted to a survey of the museum’s in-depth but under-utilized holdings of works on paper and paintings by George Grosz - works that further demonstrate a socially-charged use of the figure.
image
Ron Mueck
Untitled (Big Man), 2000
Event Information
For more info: Online
General Information
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Hours: Daily 10 am - 5:30 pm
Closed December 25
Address: Independence Avenue at 7th Street, SW
Metro: L'Enfant Plaza (Yellow, Green, Blue, and Orange lines) exit Maryland Avenue and 7th Street or Federal Center SW (Blue and Orange lines) or Metrobus Friendship Heights/Southern Avenue lines 30, 32, 34–36
Phone: 202-633-1000
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is a leading voice for contemporary art and culture and provides a national platform for the art and artists of our time. We seek to share the transformative power of modern and contemporary art with audiences at all levels of awareness and understanding by creating meaningful, personal experiences in which art, artists, audiences and ideas converge. We enhance public understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through acquisition, exhibitions, education and public programs, conservation and research.Post a Countdown Widget
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