Held together with Water at Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Starting from 10 September 2008 until 11 January 2009, the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art with the co-operation of Gabriele Schor, the Director of the Verbund Collection, and Levent Çalikoglu, Chief Curator of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art present to art-lovers the exhibition “Held Together with Water”, in which is a work title by Lawrence Weiner from 1993.
With its sub-themes of “Performance” and “Spaces/Places”, the exhibition is highlighting the specific lines of contact in contemporary art, extending from the 1970’s to our day.
The exhibition articulates, with these two themes, how a lot of female and male artists abandoned painting and steered towards completely new forms of expression, and the transformation to photography, video and spatial installations.
116 works by 39 artists who have steered the contemporary art world, like Cindy Sherman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jeff Wall, Ernesto Neto, Gilbert&George, Francis Alÿs, Nan Goldin, Sarah Lucas, Fred Sandback, Eleanor Antin, Cecil Beaton, Bernd-Hilla Becher, Johanna Billing, Valie Export, Kate Gilmore, Birgit Jügenssen, Louise Lawler, Ursula Mayer, Urs Lüthi, Gabriel Orozco, Loan Nguyen, Ed Ruscha, Markus Schinwald, Simon Starling, Gillian Wearing, Lawrence Weiner, Francesca Woodman and Nil Yalter are in exhibition.
Under the title “Performance”, in a process starting with the 1970’s, the orientation of the artists towards trends like the discovery of their own bodies, questioning their identity, and the feminist rebellion are dealt with.
As for the theme of “Spaces and Places”, it focuses on the relationship art builds with spaces, visualising how spaces are deconstructed by artists, and then again integrated.
Source and images credit: Istanbul Museum of Modern Art.
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