Marilyn Minter (1948-)
Meltdown, 2011
Enamel on two metal panels
304.8 x 243.8 cm
Private Collection
Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York
Pieter Aertsen
The Meatstall, 1551–1555
Oil on wood
123 x 175 cm; with frame: 151 x 202 x 8.5 cm
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht
Riotous Baroque – From Cattelan to Zurbarán Co-organized by the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Kunsthaus Zürich, the exhibition ‘Riotous Baroque. From Cattelan to Zurbarán – Tributes to Precarious Vitality’ strikes up a dialogue between 17th-century works and contemporary artpieces.
Guggenheim Bilbao, June 14 – October 6, 2013
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Source: Guggenheim Bilbao
The exhibition is an attempt to extricate the concept of the Baroque from its conventional stylistic pigeonhole, moving away from clichés such as ornament, pomp, or gold and instead focusing on the Baroque as a “tribute to precarious vitality”: the riotous yet uncertain nature ofexistence.
The show juxtaposes works by great 17th-century artist such as Pieter Aertsen, José de Ribera, Jan Steen, Simon Vouet, and Francisco de Zurbarán with that of contemporary masters like Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Paul McCarthy, and Cindy Sherman. Rather than drawing superficial thematic and formal analogies, the exhibition attempts to enable the two realities, with all their differences and affinities, inviting the audience to see them in a whole new light.
More than one hundred are included in the exhibition with an arrangement inspiredby cinematographic montage techniques that invites us to look back at history from a contemporaryperspective, exploring a wide range of popular Baroque themes such as coarseness, earthiness,religion, the sensuality, the grotesque, the burlesque or the virile.
In addition to pieces from Kunsthaus Zürich, the show features loans from some of Europe’s leadingOld Masters museums, including the Museo de Bellas Artes of Bilbao, the Museo del Prado, theKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. The exhibition also includesa number of important works from several private collections.
Highlights of the exhibition include “Satyrs Taking Sleeping Venus by Surprise” (ca. 1925) by Nicolas Poussin, “Still Life with a Pig (La Porchetta)” by José de Ribera, “Untitled” (2007) by Maurizio Cattelan, and “Noisette” (2009) by Urs Fischer.
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