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Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

1998

19 février 1998 -
17 mai 1998
Exposition. George SEGAL, a Retrospective: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings
"The first North American retrospective in twenty years to honor New Jersey-based sculptor George Segal (b. 1924) comes to the Hirshhorn following its fall 1997 premiere showing at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Segal's focus on the human condition will be revealed in more than 60 works, including key examples of his signature white-plaster figurative tableaux--powerful images of urban alienation that helped establish the artist as a founder of Pop Art. Also on view will be Segal's diverse explorations in other media: early figure paintings and sumptuously colored pastels; painted reliefs of the human body; Cubist-inspired still-life sculptures; and from the 1990s, larger-than-life portrait drawings in pencil and pastel. After closing in Washington, the exhibition travels to the Jewish Museum in New York and the Miami Art Museum in Florida."

18 mars 1998 -
21 juin 1998
Exposition. Kiki SMITH: Night
"American artist Kiki Smith (b. 1954), whose expressive work in paper, glass, wax, and bronze helped redefine body imagery in the late 1980s, creates a poetic ecosystem in darkened space. A diorama-like photo-etching provides a backdrop for silhouetted and three-dimensional sculptures of birds, stars, flowers, rabbits, cats, snowflakes, raindrops, eggs, and other elements of the natural world. Smith?s visits to natural history museums provided inspiration, in part, for this metaphorical, nocturnal environment. A brochure by Associate Curator Phyllis Rosenzweig accompanies the show."

04 juin 1998 -
25 octobre 1998
Exposition. The Collection in Context: Henry MOORE's "Stringed Figure No. 1"
"The 100th anniversary of the birth of British sculptor Henry Moore (1898--1986) occasions this one-gallery interpretation of his seminal cherrywood and string sculpture Stringed Figure No. 1, 1937. Texts and additional works reveal the sculpture's origins in 19th-century mathematical models, the direct-carving technique prevalent at the time, and the work's later impact on artists such as Naum Gabo and Kenneth Snelson. Curator of Sculpture Valerie Fletcher conceived and organized the show."

18 juin 1998 -
13 septembre 1998
Exposition. Triumph of the Spirit: Carlos ALFONZO, A Survey, 1975-1991
"Emblems of "desire, death, sacrifice and spiritual change," as one writer has described it, permeate nearly 50 paintings and works on paper by Cuban-born American artist Carlos Alfonzo (1950--1991), whose life was cut short by AIDS at the age of 40. From early calligraphic compositions created in Cuba to tumultuously autobiographical "blood" paintings of 1990--91, Alfonzo's bravura with paint, penchant for diverse sources (the Tarot, Roman Catholicism, the Afro-Cuban Santería religion), and alignment with transatlantic Neo-Expressionist trends are revealed. The Miami-based Alfonzo reached the brink of national recognition after emigrating from Cuba in 1980 as part of the Mariel Harbor boatlift. The exhibition, organized by Assistant Curator Olga Viso, is on tour from the Miami Art Museum. Essays by Viso, Dan Cameron, and others appear in a fully illustrated bilingual catalog"

02 juillet 1998 -
07 septembre 1998
Exposition. Tony OURSLER: Video Dolls Featuring Tracy Leipold
"The first solo museum show in Washington for New York--based artist Tony Oursler (b. 1957) focuses on his video-animated sculptures using his most frequent model, Tracy Leipold. The doll-like cloth figures have "talking heads" in the form of live- action projections of Leipold's face spouting emotional and psychological ruminations; a projector and various props complete each tableau. Oursler's disquieting, often humorous fusion of sculpture, video, and performance has earned him growing acclaim. A brochure by organizing curator Sidney Lawrence accompanies the exhibition."

15 octobre 1998 -
10 janvier 1999
Exposition. Chuck CLOSE
"This retrospective of the work of American artist Chuck Close (b. 1940), who first emerged as part of Photo-Realism in the 1970s, features his monumental portraits of friends, family and fellow artists. Bridging expressionism and conceptualism, abstraction and Pop Art, and painting and photography, Close's distinct approach will be represented by some 80 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from all phases of his career. The show, organized and first presented Feb. 26 - May 26, 1998, by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, comes to the Hirshhorn from its second stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (June 20 - Sept. 13, 1998) and travels to the Seattle Art Museum (Feb. - May 1999) "

	1998
	19 février 1998 - 17 mai 1998	Exposition. George SEGAL, a Retrospective: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings "The first North American retrospective in twenty years to honor New Jersey-based sculptor George Segal (b. 1924) comes to the Hirshhorn following its fall 1997 premiere showing at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Segal's focus on the human condition will be revealed in more than 60 works, including key examples of his signature white-plaster figurative tableaux--powerful images of urban alienation that helped establish the artist as a founder of Pop Art. Also on view will be Segal's diverse explorations in other media: early figure paintings and sumptuously colored pastels; painted reliefs of the human body; Cubist-inspired still-life sculptures; and from the 1990s, larger-than-life portrait drawings in pencil and pastel. After closing in Washington, the exhibition travels to the Jewish Museum in New York and the Miami Art Museum in Florida."
	18 mars 1998 - 21 juin 1998	Exposition. Kiki SMITH: Night "American artist Kiki Smith (b. 1954), whose expressive work in paper, glass, wax, and bronze helped redefine body imagery in the late 1980s, creates a poetic ecosystem in darkened space. A diorama-like photo-etching provides a backdrop for silhouetted and three-dimensional sculptures of birds, stars, flowers, rabbits, cats, snowflakes, raindrops, eggs, and other elements of the natural world. Smith?s visits to natural history museums provided inspiration, in part, for this metaphorical, nocturnal environment. A brochure by Associate Curator Phyllis Rosenzweig accompanies the show."
	04 juin 1998 - 25 octobre 1998	Exposition. The Collection in Context: Henry MOORE's "Stringed Figure No. 1" "The 100th anniversary of the birth of British sculptor Henry Moore (1898--1986) occasions this one-gallery interpretation of his seminal cherrywood and string sculpture Stringed Figure No. 1, 1937. Texts and additional works reveal the sculpture's origins in 19th-century mathematical models, the direct-carving technique prevalent at the time, and the work's later impact on artists such as Naum Gabo and Kenneth Snelson. Curator of Sculpture Valerie Fletcher conceived and organized the show."
	18 juin 1998 - 13 septembre 1998	Exposition. Triumph of the Spirit: Carlos ALFONZO, A Survey, 1975-1991 "Emblems of "desire, death, sacrifice and spiritual change," as one writer has described it, permeate nearly 50 paintings and works on paper by Cuban-born American artist Carlos Alfonzo (1950--1991), whose life was cut short by AIDS at the age of 40. From early calligraphic compositions created in Cuba to tumultuously autobiographical "blood" paintings of 1990--91, Alfonzo's bravura with paint, penchant for diverse sources (the Tarot, Roman Catholicism, the Afro-Cuban Santería religion), and alignment with transatlantic Neo-Expressionist trends are revealed. The Miami-based Alfonzo reached the brink of national recognition after emigrating from Cuba in 1980 as part of the Mariel Harbor boatlift. The exhibition, organized by Assistant Curator Olga Viso, is on tour from the Miami Art Museum. Essays by Viso, Dan Cameron, and others appear in a fully illustrated bilingual catalog"
	02 juillet 1998 - 07 septembre 1998	Exposition. Tony OURSLER: Video Dolls Featuring Tracy Leipold "The first solo museum show in Washington for New York--based artist Tony Oursler (b. 1957) focuses on his video-animated sculptures using his most frequent model, Tracy Leipold. The doll-like cloth figures have "talking heads" in the form of live- action projections of Leipold's face spouting emotional and psychological ruminations; a projector and various props complete each tableau. Oursler's disquieting, often humorous fusion of sculpture, video, and performance has earned him growing acclaim. A brochure by organizing curator Sidney Lawrence accompanies the exhibition."
	15 octobre 1998 - 10 janvier 1999	Exposition. Chuck CLOSE "This retrospective of the work of American artist Chuck Close (b. 1940), who first emerged as part of Photo-Realism in the 1970s, features his monumental portraits of friends, family and fellow artists. Bridging expressionism and conceptualism, abstraction and Pop Art, and painting and photography, Close's distinct approach will be represented by some 80 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from all phases of his career. The show, organized and first presented Feb. 26 - May 26, 1998, by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, comes to the Hirshhorn from its second stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (June 20 - Sept. 13, 1998) and travels to the Seattle Art Museum (Feb. - May 1999) "