Barbara Kruger Zwirner and MoMA Shows Speak to Past and Present
UCLA Arts faculty and world-renowned artist Barbara Kruger continues her activist work with two immersive exhibitions at MoMA and David Zwirner Gallery.
"Sightings of Barbara Kruger's work in New York City have been somewhat scarce since her last exhibition in 2018 at Mary Boone Gallery (which permanently closed after its namesake owner went to jail for tax evasion_, but now, Kruger is back in a big way with concurrent offerings at David Zwirner and MoMA.
The Zwirner exhibition takes up the gallary's entire West 19th Street location, while the presentation at The Modern fills the museum's capacious atrium. Each show presents the latest in the artist's patented amalgams of photos, words, and punchy graphics condicting metatextual commentary on the zeigeist.
Over the decades, Kruger's work has grown from large-format photographs to videos and immersive installations that swamp viewers in logorrheic gushes of pronouncements, apercus, questions and sentiments. But throughout her 40-year-career, Kruger's aim has been to subvert the corrupting combination of late capitalism, male privilege, and mass media by creating a kind of faux propaganda that parodies the semiotics of authority." — Howard Halle, July 26, 2022
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