Temporama Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
June 20—August 9, 2015
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro

Temporama Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

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Untitled (Marilyn), 2015 Printed images on aluminum, fabric As part of a work created specially for Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, Gonzalez-Foerster appears as Marilyn Monroe in the famous skinny dip scene from her unfinished last movie, Something’s Got to Give (1962), with this connecting us back to the early modern days of the museum and the mid-sixties when Gonzalez-Foerster was born. Untitled, 1986/2015 (back right) Column and surface with carpet Placed in front of the rectangular shape, the column covered in the same material creates the optical effect of partially disappearing or fusing. Perhaps in reference to the traditional distinctions between sculpture and painting (and its reprise in modernism of three-dimensionality vs. flatness), the dynamic contrasts the sculptural presence of the columnar shape with the two-dimensionality of the wall. Photo © Pat Kilgore

Press Release

The Museu de Arte Moderna’s Temporama, presented 12 works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. The exhibition, curated by Pablo Léon de la Barra, covered 1,800 square meters on the second floor of MAM and included iconic works the artist produced between 1985 and 1991, reconstructed for the first time for this exhibition. The show also included a single work produced this year, “an abstract swimming pool,” which featured photographs of the artist appearing as Marilyn Monroe. The...
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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is represented by Esther Schipper