Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum: Friday, 18 September 2009
Chance Aesthetics
Sept. 18, 2009, to Jan. 4, 2010
Public Opening Celebration Friday, September 18, 7-9 pm
Organized by Meredith Malone, Chance Aesthetics will feature more than 60 artworks by more than 40 avant-garde artists from Europe and the United States, including Jean Arp, George Brecht, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Alison Knowles, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Tanguy, among many others.
At the exhibition's heart is a central paradox involving the tension between chance and choice. While many artists have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental — both as an attack on reason and logic and as a counterpoint to officially sanctioned aesthetic tastes — artistic subjectivity is never entirely ceded. The controlled and the arbitrary variously interplayed throughout the 20th century, stimulating new forms of creative invention that challenged longstanding assumptions about what might constitute a work of art and the role of the artist as autonomous creator.
FREE and open to the public 11-6 every day except Tuesday, open 11-8 on Friday
Sept. 18, 2009, to Jan. 4, 2010
Public Opening Celebration Friday, September 18, 7-9 pm
Organized by Meredith Malone, Chance Aesthetics will feature more than 60 artworks by more than 40 avant-garde artists from Europe and the United States, including Jean Arp, George Brecht, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Ellsworth Kelly, Alison Knowles, François Morellet, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dieter Roth, Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Tanguy, among many others.
At the exhibition's heart is a central paradox involving the tension between chance and choice. While many artists have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental — both as an attack on reason and logic and as a counterpoint to officially sanctioned aesthetic tastes — artistic subjectivity is never entirely ceded. The controlled and the arbitrary variously interplayed throughout the 20th century, stimulating new forms of creative invention that challenged longstanding assumptions about what might constitute a work of art and the role of the artist as autonomous creator.
FREE and open to the public 11-6 every day except Tuesday, open 11-8 on Friday
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
on Washington University's Danforth campus
314.935.4523
http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu
on Washington University's Danforth campus
314.935.4523
http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu
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