Three months (from March to May) represent the opportunity to admire, at New York’s Whitney Museum, the best of American art in several expressions that include, along with fine arts, music, dance, cinema and theater. The idea is providing a space for the interdisciplinary, as it outlines a notion of artistic field in constant expansion.
It’s been a week since its opening back in March 1 at 945 Madison Avenue, and so far a significant number of visitors have admired a summary of a two-year production in terms of different artistic expressions: sculpture, painting, installations, photography and performance, through proposals of Kai Althoff, Thom Andersen, Michael Clark, Werner Herzog, Dawn Kasper, among others.
Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders, curators to the Biennial, have affirmed that the 51 handpicked proposals celebrate the permanent redefinition of what art and the work of an artist mean. That’s the reason why the new means and actions play a leading role, though the so-called “traditional” expressions also stand out, the sculptures of Vincent Fectau and Matt Hoyt, Andrew Masullo’s abstract painting and Moyra Davey’s photography, are some of the examples.
One of the proposals to be highlighted is Latoya Ruby Frazier’s photographic work, who intervenes images of one of Levis’ advertising campaigns, issuing a sincere critic to the marginalization suffered by the elderly and the Afro Americans in their fight for better economic opportunities and access to health care.
2012 Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
945 Madison Avenue and 75th Street, New York
March 1 – May 27, 2012
From Wednesdays to Sundays, 11:00 – 6:00 pm, Fridays 9:00 pm
Sources: www.whitney.org / http://www.artishock.cl
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