Highlight #4: Welcome the new year, 2015!

9 November 2014~22 February 2015_Museum of Modern Art, New York

<Sturtevant: Double Trouble> is the first comprehensive survey exhibition in the United States of the artist’s 50 year career. Since her first solo show at Everson Museum of Art in 1973, this exhibition is the first monumental exhibition at an American institution. Born in 1924 and died in 2014, the artist has worked with every artistic medium, such as painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, film and video, and this exhibition brings together more than fifty works from her career.

This figurative artist began showing her works under the name "Sturtevant" in a group exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York in 1960. In 1964, she started making her own versions of the works but continued to appropriate the art of some of the era’s most iconic artists including Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Keith Haring, and Anselm Kiefer as sources for her work. However, since 1974, she withdrew from exhibiting her work for more than a decade. Then she reappeared within the sympathetic context of Postmodernism in 1985. Since 1998, she produced the video work as documentation, and it became her primary focus

26 November 2014~15 March 2015_Tate Modern

Commemorating the 100th year since the outbreak of the First World War, Conflict, Time, Photography brings together the photographers who capture the scenes of bombing. Instead of focusing on the passage of time, the exhibition provides an alternative to familiar notions of photojournalism. Furthermore, it introduces the works that reflect the previous incidents by applying unique methods with the camera and showcases the works that recreate “conflicts” that have influenced our life in various ways. Focusing on the timely relationship between the areas of conflict and photography, this exhibition emphasizes the concept how time itself becomes the essential element of the photography as a medium. The viewer encounters historical images that are rarely seen and photographic installations created recently.

The exhibition depicts various differing perspectives of each artist through the connections in time, and the topics it explore include the conflicts happened all over the world from the 19th century to the 21st century, such as landscape, ruin, reconstruction and the cost of human damage. The private collection of The Archive of Modern Conflict, London-based independent publishing company, is shown as a special section of this exhibit, and it presents a diverse range of photographs, documents and other materials to offer an alternative perspective of war and its memory.
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