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标题: Jeff Wall MoMA 回顾展 [打印本页]

作者: 胫骨 时间: 2007-8-4 13:43
标题: Jeff Wall MoMA 回顾展
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 <td width="237" valign="middle">Jeff Wall 
 February 25–May 14, 2007 
 The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor
 <a class="exhibitlinkbody" href="http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2007/jeffwall/">View the online exhibition</a> 
 <a class="exhibitlinkbody" href="http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2007/JeffWall.html#critics">Read what the critics are saying</a>

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 Jeff
Wall (Canadian, b. 1946) is widely recognized as one of the most
adventurous and inventive artists of his generation. This retrospective
surveys his career from the late 1970s to the present through some
forty works. The exhibition features his major lightbox photographs and
trace the evolution of his principal themes and pictorial strategies.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, with an essay by Peter
Galassi and an interview with Jeff Wall conducted by James Rondeau,
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Art Institute of Chicago.
To coincide with the exhibition, MoMA is publishing a book of Jeff
Wall\'s collected writings and interviews. 
Following the New York showing the exhibition travels to The Art
Institute of Chicago, and concludes its tour at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 2007.
Co-curated by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator,
Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, and Neal Benezra,
Director, SFMOMA.
The exhibition is organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The New York presentation of the exhibition is made possible by Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann.
Major corporate support is provided by RBC Capital Markets.
The accompanying publications are made possible by Carol and David Appel.
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<a name="critics"></a>Read what the critics are saying 
“Jeff Wall’s large color transparencies mounted on electric light
boxes fill 10 galleries at the Museum of Modern Art with a pulsating
and purposeful, if slightly sedate, optimism. Alluring to the point of
transfixion, the 41 works measure as much as 10 feet high or 16 feet
across. These are outright gorgeous, fully equipped all-terrain visual
vehicles, intent on being intensely pleasurable while making a point or
two about society, art, history, visual perception, the human animal or
all of the above.”—The New York Times
“Jeff Wall\'s vivid, lambent photographs hover between the observed
and the imagined, between the commonplace and the surreal. A
spectacular retrospective at the Museum of Modem Art reveals a
photographer who draws keenly on the monuments of the past to make work
that is resonant but fresh. Majesty is not a word often used to
describe contemporary photographs, but it applies to Wall.”—Newsday
“Wall thought big. When he emerged in 1978 as a fully formed artist,
he presented photographs that demanded equal status with paintings. In
sheer size, they were measured in feet, not inches. He produced them as
unique objects, not in editions, and their aura was heightened by the
mode of display: enormous transparencies lit from behind by fluorescent
bulbs, a “light box” format that was typically used for advertising.
Like a commercial light box, a Wall photograph grabbed you with its
glowing presence, but then, unlike an advertisement, it held your gaze
with the richness of its detail and the harmony of its arrangement. You
could study it with the attention you devoted to a Flemish altarpiece
in a church, and you could surrender yourself to its spell as if you
were in a movie theater.”—The New York Times Magazine
“There’s a certain shininess—that buffed light on computer screens,
magazines, televisions, and billboards—that’s become inescapable. It’s
juicy, too, and stimulates in us a low, Pavlovian desire. Something to
buy, see, do? Jeff Wall\'s light boxes, which are large backlit color
transparencies, momentarily suggest that general cultural shininess.
Before we take in his imagery, we sense that everywhere light—the life
light of consumer culture—and we expect it to deliver that typically
fast gotcha! message. Instead, Wall\'s boxes surprise us with
a wonderful, otherworldly slowness: We begin to find in them different
lights, cues, intimations. They become boxes to open. 
 Wall is an exciting figure because, to put it bluntly, he hasn\'t
made the capitulations characteristic of contemporary art.… Wall, who
is 60, seems very much of our moment. Yet he cultivates a living
relationship to the great Westem tradition, struggles to create
rigorous formal compositions, and takes subject matter seriously. All
at once.”—New York Magazine
 
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ictured above:
 Jeff Wall.

icture for Women, 1979.
 Silver dye bleach transparency in light box,
 56 1/8 x 6 ft. 8 1/2 in. (142.5 x 204.5 cm).
 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d\'art moderne/Centre de création industrielle. © 2007 Jeff Wall 网上观看地址： http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2007/jeffwall/ </td></tr></tbody></table>

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