Highlights from the Nasher Collection

Start date: Friday, November 24, 2006
Event is ongoing: Until Sunday, January 7, 2007

A new exhibition of works from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection now on view highlight several new acquisitions and feature a number of masterworks from the collection making their first appearance at the Center.

Comprising approximately 70 works installed in the Center’s indoor galleries and also several changes in the sculpture garden, this exhibition traces the evolution of several key developments in modern and contemporary sculpture. Masterworks by artists such as Auguste Rodin, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Alberto Giacometti embody the modernist interpretation of the human figure, incorporating radical formal and psychological investigations. The realm of dreams and the subconscious is examined in some of the best known sculptures of the Surrealist movement by artists such as Giacometti, Max Ernst, Isamu Noguchi, Joan Miró and Alexander Calder. The exhibition continues with sections exploring the development of Constructivism and welded metal sculpture in the twentieth century from Naum Gabo to Antony Gormley, including works by Julio González and David Smith. An installation of works by Willem de Kooning presents an Abstract Expressionist dialogue between sculpture and painting. In the lower level gallery, a work by contemporary Spanish artist Jaume Plensa entitled Song of Songs III & IV will engross viewers in an installation featuring confined contemplative structures bathed in glowing, variably colored light.

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