Figures in the Field

Today, figurative art has re-emerged with a very strong presence while non-representational abstract painting is less emphasized in the discourse of contemporary art. Figures in the Field is an exhibition that aims to reinvigorate the dialogue between these two different languages and traditional modes of creative production while questioning how they create meaning today. With works dating from 1960s to the present and based on the MCA Collection, Figures in the Field will include works such as Jeff Koons’s Pink Panther, Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 8, Yinka Shonibare’s Alien Obsessives: Mum, Dad and the Kids, Tom Friedman’s Untitled, David Hammons’s Praying to Safety, as well as several important loans from other Chicago collections including figurative sculptures by Katharina Fritsch, Maurizio Cattelan, Ron Mueck, Marc Quinn, Robert Gober, Stephan Balkenhol, Charles Ray, and Takashi Murakami, among others. These will be interspersed with non-objective paintings by artists such as Jules Olitski, Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Cy Twombly, Kenneth Noland, Brice Marden, Mark Rothko, Imi Knoebel, Gary Hume, Gaylen Gerber, Judy Ledgerwood, and paintings by a younger generation of artists including Mark Grotjahn, Carrie Gundersdorf, and Rebecca Morris. The exhibition is co-curated by Manilow Senior Curator at Large Francesco Bonami and Assistant Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm.

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Figures in the Field
Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections
Kuratoren: Manilow Senior, Julie Rodrigues Widholm

mit Jeff Koons, Matthew Barney, Yinka Shonibare, Tom Friedman, David Hammons, Katharina Fritsch, Maurizio Cattelan, Ron Mueck, Marc Quinn, Robert Gober, Stephan Balkenhol, Charles Ray, Takashi Murakami, Jules Olitski, Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Cy Twombly, Kenneth Noland, Brice Marden, Mark Rothko, Imi Knoebel, Gary Hume, Gaylen Gerber, Judy Ledgerwood, Mark Grotjahn, Carrie Gundersdorf, Rebecca Morris