The aim of this exhibition is to reaffirm MAMCO’s role in creating a Swiss artistic heritage and give the public a chance to (re)discover the artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century. Ranging from Minimal and Conceptual art to Fluxus, from Body art to Appropriation art in the 1970s and 1980s, and from the legacy of abstraction to the resurgence of figurative art in recent decades, this historical overview also revisits issues such as the role of theatricality in the visual arts, how artists have explored architecture and urban spaces since the 1960s, and how images became “liquid”—to use Zygmunt Bauman’s expression—in the early 21st century. Abdessemed's 'East of Eden' (2013), in which 64 groupings of knives take the rectangular format of an Islamic prayer rug, was acquired by MAMCO in 2020.
Inventaire
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
26 January – 20 June 2021
Inventaire
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
26 January – 20 June 2021
The aim of this exhibition is to reaffirm MAMCO’s role in creating a Swiss artistic heritage and give the public a chance to (re)discover the artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century. Ranging from Minimal and Conceptual art to Fluxus, from Body art to Appropriation art in the 1970s and 1980s, and from the legacy of abstraction to the resurgence of figurative art in recent decades, this historical overview also revisits issues such as the role of theatricality in the visual arts, how artists have explored architecture and urban spaces since the 1960s, and how images became “liquid”—to use Zygmunt Bauman’s expression—in the early 21st century.
Abdessemed's 'East of Eden' (2013), in which 64 groupings of knives take the rectangular format of an Islamic prayer rug, was acquired by MAMCO in 2020.
