11.3.09

MoMA Exhibition Looks at Paper as a Source of Artistic Experimentation Beginning in the 1960s

Dieter Roth (Swiss, b. Germany, 1930-1998), Big Sunset. 1968 (published 1970) Sausage on card in plastic cover. Composition and sheet: 37 3/8 x 25 9/16" (95 x 65 cm) Publisher: the artist, Düsseldorf. Printer: Rudolf Rieser, Cologne. Edition: 25. The Museum of Modern Art. Riva Castleman Endowment Fund and Alexandra Herzan Fund, 2003 © 2009 Estate of Dieter Roth. (internet photo)

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded, an exhibition of approximately 70 works from MoMA’s collection that explore and manipulate the materiality of paper. Comprising prints and illustrated books as well as drawings and a papier-mâché sculpture, the exhibition focuses largely on works from the 1960s and 1970s, when an interest in everyday materials and nontraditional processes fueled the redeployment of some of the most familiar and humble mediums. On view are works by approximately 30 artists, including Lucio Fontana, Eva Hesse, Lygia Pape, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, Dieter Roth, and Ed Ruscha, as well as examples by contemporary artists Martin Creed, Ellen Gallagher, and Mona Hatoum, among others. ...--Artdaily.com

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