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“Charcoal…became a way of thinking, rather than a physical medium.”
– William Kentridge
 William Kentridge:
Five Themes
July 12–September 27, 2009
William Kentridge: Five Themes features the most comprehensive survey to date of the films, drawings, books, prints, sculptures, and stage designs by this influential contemporary South African artist. The exhibition features the first American presentation and catalogue of the new work Kentridge has created since 2000 that dramatically expands his technical innovations as an artist filmmaker, enlarges the scale of his work in stage design and installation art, and extends his themes beyond the impact of apartheid in South Africa. Organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Norton Museum of Art, the exhibition will also travel to the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Susan Rothenberg: Moving In Place
October 18, 2009–January 3, 2010
Curator: Michael Auping
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents a special exhibition of twenty-five paintings by Susan Rothenberg. The Modern’s Chief Curator, Michael Auping, and the artist have identified a select group of paintings that span the artist’s career—from the early horse paintings of the mid-1970s, to her most recent body of work, which explores a number of central motifs that have occurred throughout the artist’s 35-year career. Auping comments: “Rather than focusing on Rothenberg’s famous early horse paintings as the beginning of a symbolic, figurative evolution, we are looking at the artist’s work from a more holistic, formal standpoint, identifying her unusual way of organizing pictorial space, regardless of the figurative content”. Each painting in the exhibition will highlight key compositional strategies in a formal narrative where perceived movement, fragmentation, and painterly gesture establish a dynamic interaction with the edges and frames of her canvases. The exhibition is organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in conjunction with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe.
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