© Gianni Motti

Opening reception:
Friday, February 10, 2012
6:00–8:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
February 11–May 6, 2012

Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst
Albisriederstrasse 199A
CH-8047 Zürich
Switzerland
+41 44 277 20 50

Started in 1957, works from the collection of the Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst will be featured in an exhibition titled Tour D’Horizon. The show is divided into four sections and addresses specific aspects and intentions concerning the development of the collection. The display offers insight into the different directions and thematic standpoints that guided the acquisitions, in addition to a chronology. The exhibition is accompanied by events, lectures, and tours that examine a questions about collecting and the history of these pieces.

Tour D’Horizon features Lothar Baumgarten, Georg Baselitz, Jan Dibbets, Martin Disler, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, A. R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Klaudia Schifferle, Atelier van Lieshout, Carlos Amorales, and Gianni Motti.
Sol LeWitt has appeared in Aperture issue 204 and 182.

Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria, 2007 © Pieter Hugo;
Hans William Bentinck, Earl of Portland, K.G., 1698-1699 © Hyacinthe Rigaud

Exhibition on view:
The Endless Renaissance
Friday, April 17–Sunday, August 16, 2009

The Bass Museum of Art
2121 Park Avenue
Miami Beach, Florida
(305) 673-7530

In Endless Renaissance, The Bass Museum of Art brings together a collection of historical and contemporary art to create a dialogue between the past and the present. It has been argued that when an artist integrates aspects of earlier work in their own, they change the way we look at the quoted artwork. For example, when you look at Michelangelo’s Mona Lisa, it is hard not to see Marcel Duchamp’s subversion of the painting with a mustache and goatee.

In Endless Renaissance, works by 17th, 18th, and 19th century masters such as Delacroix, Goya, and Rigaud are juxtaposed with the work of contemporary artists such as Gregory Crewdson, Pieter Hugo, and Sol Lewitt, all featured in recent issues of Aperture magazine. The idea is to highlight that all art, regardless of when it was created, is contemporary and reflects subjects which affected the artist at that specific point of time.