New Barbara Kruger exhibition opens in Chelsea
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist and Emerita Distinguished Professor of New Genres at UCLA Arts. Her new exhibition opens at David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea, New York on June 30 and runs until August 12.
"Barbara Kruger has been raging against power structures and social constructs since at least the 1970s and, as this stunning exhibition of recent works in Chelsea hammers home, her iconic, type-heavy collages feel as vital and relevant as ever.
The most glaring, and depressing, example on this specific week is Kruger's iconic "Untitled (Your body is a battleground)," but unsubtle references to battles not yet won abound.
"Our exhibition has all the defining qualities of a great Kruger work," Bellatrix Hubert, a senior partner and global artistic director at David Zwirner, told Gothamist. "There's direct address, humor, subtle shifts in meaning, brilliant editing, strong pace and dynamic soundtrack – she confronts us with all the horrors of our society. So little has changed."
The exhibition is Kruger's first at Zwirner, and the global gallery powerhouse pulled out all the stops, turning over the entire space on West 19th Street — usually housing three separate shows — to the artist.
Anchoring the exhibition are nine large installations, including a major new work from 2020, "Untitled (No Comment)," which assaults the senses with video, sound and text involving lazy memes, selfies, cats in toilets, and other standard methods of internet communication. It's a wild journey." —Scott Lynch, June 30, 2022
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