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KARA WALKER:
MY COMPLEMENT, MY ENEMY,
MY OPPRESSOR, MY LOVE
July 5–October 19, 2008
The first full-scale American
museum survey of the work of Kara Walker opens at
the Modern on July 5. The exhibition is organized
by Philippe Vergne, Deputy Director and Chief Curator,
and Yasmil Raymond, Assistant Curator, at the Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, in close collaboration with
the artist. My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor,
My Love features works ranging from Walker’s
signature black cut-paper silhouettes to film animations
to more than one hundred works on paper.
Walker is among the most complex
and prolific American artists of her generation.
Over the past decade, she has gained national and
international recognition for her room-size tableaux
depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality,
violence, and subjugation through the genteel eighteenth-century
art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American
South before the Civil War, Walker’s compositions
play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely,
life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses,
slaves, women, and children enact a subverted version
of the past.
Kara
Walker Summer Reading: From the Artist’s
Library
Please be advised that the Kara Walker exhibition contains mature subject matter including explicit sexual images. Viewers should use their own discretion.
Explore the content of Kara Walker:
My Complement, My Enemy, My Opppressor, My Love
Permanent Collection
Due to the installation of our upcoming exhibition, our permanent collection galleries are partially closed.
This exhibition features many highlights
of the permanent collection. Works in many media
show the diversity of the
Modern’s collection.
Various movements, themes, and styles are represented,
including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field
painting, Nouveau Réalisme,
Pop art, Minimalism, and post-Minimalism, as well
as aspects of New Image Painting from the 1970s
and beyond, recent developments in abstract and
figurative sculpture, and contemporary photography
and video.
A museum is an organic, changing place. In order
to show the full range of our holdings and to
accommodate important temporary exhibitions, certain
works must occasionally be taken off view. Please
refer to the exhibition checklist for works currently
on view in the Museum galleries.
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