Evenement
HOW SOON NOW and TIME CAPSULE, AGE 13 TO 21:
THE CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION OF JASON RUBELL
THE CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION OF JASON RUBELL
How Soon Now will feature over thirty of the worldʼs most compelling contemporary artists including Cecily Brown, Thea Djordjadze, Huan Yong Ping, Matthew Day Jackson, Analia Saban, Ryan Trecartin, Kaari Upson and David Wojnarowicz. This exhibition, occupying 27 galleries, will be comprised of paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos never before exhibited in the Foundation. The artworks in this show, all of which are owned by the Collection and most of which are recent acquisitions, form disparate bodies of work from a range of generations and include established and emerging artists.
Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell is an exhibition that Jason Rubell first curated for his college thesis at Duke University in 1991. It contains 95 artworks he acquired between 1983 and 1991 and features 53 artists from this period, such as George Condo, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Cady Noland, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel. This exhibition traveled to ten university art museums between 1991 and 1994. Jason Rubell’s experience presenting this exhibition to and for the public greatly informed the opening of the Rubell Family Collection in 1994 with his family. His collecting efforts since that time have been in collaboration with his parents Don and Mera Rubell. The exhibition is a time capsule illustrating Jason Rubell’s early collecting endeavors and bears witness to numerous artistic movements of the 1980’s.
Catalogs will accompany both exhibitions.
How Soon Now began as an exhibition of works not previously exhibited at the Foundation. We were determined not to have a strict thematic framework to allow the works to guide us. As we formulated the list of artists to be included, we noticed that our most recent acquisitions – those over the last three years – dominated the conversation. Deeper discussion of the newer works influenced our selection of older works and made a dialogue between generations all the more consequent and necessary.
A set of similar themes emerged: the handmade object; craft; studio practice; traditional artmaking techniques; materiality; engagement with modernism; personal subject matter. At the heart of our process was the feeling that many of these artists focused on identity in an age when identity can be constructed or manipulated. They grapple with the idea of real personal history in the context of fabricated or virtual versions of it and explore the consciousness that evolves from these histories.
These themes were front and center in our conversations with each other and gave shape to the exhibition. In choosing the words How Soon Now, we emphasize the urgency and relevance of these works, even though they do not necessarily have a context within the time that they were produced. Eventually, a generation emerges that creates a “now” for itself, that exists alongside the “now” of previous generations.
ARTISTS
Pawel Althamer
El Anatsui
Kathryn Andrews
John Baldessari
Kerstin Brätsch
Cecily Brown
Paul Chan
George Condo
Heather Cook
Thea Djordjadze
Nathalie Djurberg
Naomi Fisher
Dara Friedman
Rachel Harrison
Huan Yong Ping
Alex Hubbard
Matthew Day Jackson
Karen Kilimnik
Klara Kristalova
Sarah Lucas
Tobias Madison
Mark Manders
Dianna Molzan
Elizabeth Peyton
Amanda Ross-Ho
Analia Saban
Wilhelm Sasnal
Mike + Doug Starn
Ryan Trecartin
Rosemarie Trockel
Kaari Upson
Marianne Vitale
Jennifer West
Sue Williams
David Wojnarowicz
