THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART TO PRESENT CONTEMPORARY VOICES: WORKS FROM THE UBS ART COLLECTION
One of the first exhibitions to open in MoMA’s New Galleries for Temporary Exhibitions features paintings, sculptures, photographs, and drawings donated to the Museum by UBS and from The UBS Art Collection.
EXHIBITION
Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection
DATES
February 4 - April 25, 2005
ORGANIZATION
Organized by Ann Temkin, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art.
CONTENT
To celebrate the donation of works of contemporary art to the Museum by the financial services firm UBS, MoMA presents Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection. The exhibition will include 40 of the works donated to MoMA and 24 loaned by UBS that represent the firm’s collection of contemporary art, renowned for its works by European and American artists of the last 45 years. The exhibition will be on view in The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery on the sixth floor.
The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, and drawings by some 50 artists, demonstrating UBS’s insightful collecting path over the last three decades. Contemporary Voices features a diverse array of works including abstract paintings by Willem de Kooning and Brice Marden; figurative paintings by Philip Guston and Chuck Close; Minimalist sculpture by Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, large-scale photography by Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth; and significant works on paper by Jenny Holzer, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, and Cy Twombly.
The exhibition and accompanying publication are made possible by UBS, one of the world’s leading financial firms and a major supporter of the arts.
The works in this exhibition are drawn from the former PaineWebber Art Collection, which was assembled under the leadership of former PaineWebber Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Donald B. Marron, a longtime Trustee, former President and current Vice Chairman of MoMA, as well as a member of The UBS Art Collection Advisory Board. The PaineWebber Art Collection became the core of The UBS Art Collection in 2001 when UBS acquired PaineWebber. Today, The UBS Art Collection encompasses more than 900 paintings, photographs, works on paper and sculptures featuring the work of major artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
THE CURATOR
Ann Temkin joined MoMA in the fall of 2003 as Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture. Prior to that, she was the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, beginning in 1990. Her prior exhibitions include Constantin Brancusi (1995), Alice Neel (2000), and Barnett Newman (2002). She has lectured and written extensively about modern and contemporary art. Ms. Temkin received an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in History of Art from Yale University.
PUBLICATION
The publication features an introductory essay by Ann Temkin, as well as interviews between the curator and 11 artists in the exhibition on topics ranging from the origin of their ideas to the mechanics of the working process. The artists interviewed include Vija Celmins, Damien Hirst, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Lorna Simpson, and others. The book also contains an interview with Donald B. Marron by Glenn Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, and color reproductions of the works in the exhibition. Available in February 2005 at the MoMA Stores.
SPONSORSHIP
The exhibition and accompanying publication are made possible by UBS.
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PRESS CONTACT
Daniela Carboneri, 212/708-9747 or daniela_carboneri@moma.org
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FILM ADMISSION
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