Rubell Family Collection
Euro-Centric, Part 1:
New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection
December 5, 2007 - November 28, 2008
How does an entire continent redefine itself? What is a European? How do present-day Europeans deal with the memory of two world wars? How does the inheritance of a colonial past impact the current generation? How do contemporary artists deal with the weight of their own cultural history? How do these artists define themselves through their desire to participate in a dialogue of NOW? Is there a contemporary European aesthetic? “Euro-Centric, Part 1” is the first of a series of exhibitions over the coming years that will attempt to address these questions.
This major exhibition will be presented in 16 of the 27 galleries that constitute the RFC exhibition space.
Euro-Centric artists:
John Armleder
Christian Boltanski
Andre Butzer
Maurizio Cattelan
Walter Dahn
Nathalie Djurberg
Marlene Dumas
Urs Fischer
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Axel Geis
Thomas Helbig
Georg Herold
Andreas Hofer
Anselm Kiefer
Jonathan Meese
Bjarne Melgaard
Olivier Mosset
Mai-Thu Perret
Anselm Reyle
Anri Sala
Thomas Schütte
Rosemarie Trockel
Erik van Lieshout
Andro Wekua
Franz West
Thomas Zipp
John Stezaker: Works from the Rubell Family Collection
December 5, 2007 - November 28, 2008
This, John Stezaker’s first solo show in an American public institution, brings together 17 works that span 28 years of his production and illustrates the variable relation, over these many years, between ground image and insert image. Combing the aisles of flea markets, used-book stores, postcard vendors, etc., Stezaker’s anthropological search filters and selects images that often have a strong sense of déjà vu: Hollywood film stars of a bygone age, postcards of the top-of-the-pops of historical monuments, nature scenes and curiosities. Stezaker then takes these faded images and sets up a composition that often seems to be an arbitrary combination of two seemingly disparate components. Through his obstructions of both action and recognition, Stezaker’s strange, unsettling combinations of images sets us free to investigate the subconscious, the psychological, the philosophical; we are still, in may ways, the grandchildren of pop-psychology. All the work in this exhibition is drawn exclusively from the collection of the Rubell family.
Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection
December 5, 2007 - November 28, 2008
A graduate of New World School of the Arts (Miami, FL), Hernan Bas (b. 1978) has gone on to become one of Miami’s most celebrated artists. His work indulges in the production of romantic, melancholic and old world imagery, and makes reference to Wilde, Huysmans and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period in literature. This exhibition consists of 38 works spanning a decade, and includes examples from each of his series completed thus far. Designed like the chapters of a book, the exhibition presents the development of
this young artist in such a manner to allow for symbolic, literal and poetical readings.
Bound in the works’ romantic storytelling, art history references, grand gesture and melding of the conceptual, one still feels a strong sense of humanity. Humanism. Real stories told of real boys with deeply held feelings. An artist expressing his experience, his history, his desires, his world, and his place in that world right now—both as artist and individual.