"The Incomplete" at the Chelsea Art Museum |
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| Monday, 24 December 2007 14:31 |
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NEW YORK CITY - The Chelsea Art Museum, Home of the Miotte Foundation is pleased to announce, The Incomplete , curated by Manon Slome and Hubert Neumann. We live in an incomplete world. Therefore it is imperative to examine the new art which deals with our lack of closure. The Chelsea Art Museum is proud to present at this time a ground-breaking exhibition which is so pertinent to our lives. It will change the way we look at and understand the creative production of our times.
The exhibition presents well-known artists in an entirely new context. Emerging artists in the exhibition seamlessly connect into a genre that began in the mid-eighties with Ashley Bickerton and Jeff Koons continuing today with Karen Kilimnik, Xavier Veilhan and Aya Uekawa. The works in the exhibition are drawn from the Neumann family collection and represent the spirit of the collection over the last 20 years. A fully illustrated catalogue has been published which includes discourses on the art, statements from the artists and original works The exhibition includes the following artists: Haluke Akakce, John Armleder, Kristin Baker, Vanessa Beecroft, Michael Bevilacqua, Ashley Bickerton, James Busby, Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Nigel Cooke, Devon Costello, Justin Craun, Benjamin Edwards, Jeff Elrod, Manuel Esnoz, Wendell Gladstone, Ridley Howard, Chris Johanson, Karen Kilimnik, Jeff Koons, Matthew McCaslin, JP Munro, Eric Parker, Charlie Roberts, Matthew Ronay, Justin Samson, Tom Sanford, Christian Schumann, John Simon, Haim Steinbach, Aya Uekawa, Meyer Vaisman, Xavier Veilhan and Kelli Williams. Visit The Chelsea Art Museum - Home of the Miotte Foundation - 556 West 22 nd Street (at 11th Avenue) Tel: 212.255.0719 New York, NY 10011 http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
The Incomplete explores the open–ended nature of four generations of contemporary artists and their multiplicity of artistic language. The artworks in the exhibition constitute a resistance to the forms of defintion and closure represented by modernism and accentuate the coexistence of incongruous ideas. Multiple works will be included from each artist representing career milestones. On exhibition through 12 January, 2008. 
of art offered in recognition of the seminal nature of the exhibition. The cover of the catalogue, which heads this press release, was created by Ashley Bickerton. 
