Word: exhibit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apparently prompted by a sign in a City Hall art display reading "Show me yours," a man yesterday exposed himself to exhibit visitors and fled before police arrived on the scene...
Through its exploration of the emotional and symbolic impact of black, Cohn's exhibit tries to show that "every cultural construct, from alchemy to academe, from liturgy to law, has found a role for black." According to Cohn, black has permeated our society as a "symbol of the absolute." The ubiquitous power of black is further evidenced in the political realm--"blackness has become a mark and divider of the races." While these observations appear self-evident, When grouped together they have a greater impact...
...Cohn's exhibit traces the use of black in Western prints over the past 500 years. She stresses, how ever, that this is not an historical evaluation; rather, the older works were selected to represent "cate gorles of meaning," like death on conflict. By contrast, Cohn does not ascribe such limited meaning to the contemporary works in the collection, (which are decidedly more numerous and varied), but believes that they should be oper to individual interpretation...
Predictably, the exhibit also features an array of virtually indistinguishable black rectangles, black rectangles juxtaposed with other black rectangles, and black-on-black compositions. Works such as Richard Serra's "Clara Clara II" and Adja Yunker's "Unititled III" experiment with black texture and three-dimmensionality...
...number of political works further extend the symbolic scope of black in the exhibit. Wernes Buettner and Ilubert Kiecol's scatstered and swirling black conveys the chaos of post-World War If city in Germany with unusual force. One especially powerful work in the exhibit, Glenn Ligon's "Four Etchings," uses black on white and black on black type to represent the dynamics of race in society. Repeating the statement "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white, background, in black on white, the background becomes gradually black and smudged. When the type is then fully...