The Beuys is part of a sustained effort to have the best we can by the artist.” “Lucy McKenzie is one of the youngest artists in our painting and sculpture collection, and the subject of a Project show in 2008. The recent additions “represent our range of interests,” Mr. Noland, “Tanya as a Bandit,” features a photograph of Patricia Hearst, the heiress who in 1974 was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, silk-screened on the aluminum. A cut-out aluminum sculpture from 1989 by Ms. McKenzie and Cady Noland have joined the Modern’s collection. This element was created to be seen indoors and was purchased from the Kippenberger estate.
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Thirty feet long, it is the only portable example from that artist’s theoretical design for a worldwide subway system. The leaves in the bowl are from a wreath with which his students crowned him on his 50th birthday.Īnother seminal work acquired by the Modern is “Crushed Metro Station,” a monumental aluminum sculpture from 1997 by Martin Kippenberger. A green jug and bowl, for example, relate to a quasi-baptismal anointment of audience members at one of his so-called actions, or performances, in 1971. Many of the objects in the vitrines had personal significance to Beuys. The piece has recently been on loan to the Tate Modern in London. Beuys decided that the five vitrines each 7 ½ feet long would make up a single work and that it would be shown with two small framed objects at either end: “Woman,” from 1971, and “Athenian Moon Owl,” from 1970-82.
The work includes objects made from 1948 to 1982 and was considered Beuys’s most extensive set of vitrines in private hands. (She is the president of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, which collects, conserves and displays contemporary art he is a businessman.) Maja Oeri, a MoMA trustee from Basel, Switzerland, and her partner, Hans Bodenmann, bought the work as a gift to the museum. The two men were friends until Beuys’s death in 1986. The work the museum has acquired belonged to Ludwig Rinn, a German collector who sought out Beuys after seeing an exhibition of his work in 1967. Lowry, director of the MoMA, explaining that the Beuys works strengthened the museum’s representation of critical artists while other acquisitions “ratchet up holdings in young artists we believe in.”Ĭurators at the Modern had spent years searching for a set of vitrines by Beuys, Mr. “These acquisitions cut to the heart of our collecting strategy,” said Glenn D. The Museum of Modern Art’s committee on painting and sculpture approved a disparate group of acquisitions on Monday, from a seminal set of vitrines by the influential postwar German artist Joseph Beuys to two works by the 30-year-old Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie.
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