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Carnegie Museum of Art
2008 Exhibition Schedule
PLEASE NOTE: This information is effective as of April 8, 2008 and is subject to change.
For current information, contact the museum's communications office at 412.622.3316. Images of the museum, its collection, and special exhibitions are available online. Contact the communications office for access.
2008 Exhibitions
Forum 61: Lowry Burgess
through March 22, 2008
Great British Art: 200 Years of Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from The Bank of New York Mellon Collection
through May 18, 2008
Ecology.Design.Synergy
through May 25, 2008
Life on Mars: the 2008 Carnegie International
May 3, 2008–January 11, 2009
Abstraction on Paper: Before 1950
June 13–October 18, 2008
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Architecture and the Spaces of the Imagination
Fall 2008–Winter 2009
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
October 4, 2008–January 18, 2009
Neapolitan presepio
November 21, 2008–January 4, 2009
2008 Special Exhibitions and Events
Art and Architecture Camps
June 16–August 15, 2008
Holidays at Carnegie Museum of Art
December 5, 2008–January 4, 2009
2008 Exhibition Descriptions
Forum 61: Lowry Burgess
through March 22, 2008
Forum Gallery
Lowry Burgess, a Pittsburgh-based conceptual and environmental artist and professor in the school of art at Carnegie Mellon University, has been exploring the earth, universe, cosmology, and humankind’s relationship to these elements in his art for more than 30 years. Through various media, including painting, video, and environmental installation, Burgess investigates metaphors of body/nature, skin/landscape, and inside/outside, as well as issues of psychology, fantasy, and dreams, in his attempts to understand the connections between humans and divergent cultures. This exhibition features several monumental, colorful, and richly illustrative paintings.
Great British Art: 200 Years of Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from The Bank of New York Mellon Collection
through May 18, 2008
Works on Paper Gallery
A broad spectrum of artworks by significant artists active in the British art world from the mid-1700s through the 1950s are on view in the museum’s Works on Paper gallery. Great British Art: 200 Years of Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from The Bank of New York Mellon Collection features 86 works by 51 different artists and offers a comprehensive survey of major trends and genres of the period. David Bomberg, John Constable, Richard Dadd, Thomas Gainsborough, Gwen John, Thomas Rowlandson, J.M.W. Turner, and Sir David Wilkie are just some of the artists included in the exhibition. Interconnections, rivalries, and exchanges among many of the artists will be seen in the content, appearance, and production of their works, as well as in their personal biographies and social milieu.
Ecology.Design.Synergy
through May 25, 2008
Heinz Architectural Center
Ecology.Design.Synergy presents recent collaborative work by Behnisch Architekten, the distinguished Stüttgart-based architectural firm, and Transsolar ClimateEngineering, the Stüttgart-based environmental engineering company, who are setting a standard around the world for “green architecture.” Their buildings are characterized by environmentally responsible design incorporating natural light, air, color, and a logical arrangement of spaces. The exhibition documents 10 innovative, aesthetically refined, energy-efficient, and sustainable building projects in Europe and the United States, including the firms’ winning proposal for the RiverParc project, developed by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Concord Eastridge of Washington D.C. Ecology.Design.Synergy is an exhibition of the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) and Galerie Aedes, Berlin, Germany.
Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International
May 3, 2008–January 11, 2009
Multiple museum galleries
Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International explores the important—yet continually perplexing—question of what it means to be human in the world today. Organized by Douglas Fogle, curator of contemporary art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Life on Mars presents the varying perspectives of 40 artists from across the globe. Each artist brings a unique outlook to the question of humanity’s response to a world in which global events challenge and seem to threaten our everyday existence. The exhibition includes works in a diverse range of media, from painting, sculpture, and drawing to animation, film, installation, and performance—all searching for the sublime in the confusion of everyday life.
The Carnegie International, established in 1896, is the oldest survey exhibition of international contemporary art in North America, and the second oldest in the world. Since its founding, the International has inspired dialogue about social and aesthetic concerns, while offering visitors a thought-provoking view of contemporary art.
Abstraction on Paper: Before 1950
June 13–October 18, 2008
Works on Paper gallery
Abstraction is one of the defining innovations of 20th century avant-garde art. The concept of abstraction, which emerged in numerous international movements and in various media, will be explored through an investigation of the work produced by many of abstraction’s most significant practitioners in Abstraction on Paper: Before 1950. The exhibition examines the line between abstraction and representation in art from the first half of the 20th century, and explores the links and evolution between landscape, still-life, architectural imagery, and figuration, and pure abstraction in geometric and organic form. Works in various media, including watercolor, collage, drawing, printmaking, and photography from the museum’s collection and from a local private collection by European, American, and Japanese artists will be displayed. Artists in the exhibition will include Josef Albers, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Francis Picabia, Mark Rothko, Johannes Molzahn, El Lissitsky, Lásló Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Arthur Dove, Charles Burchfield, John Marin, Onchi Kōshirō, Barbara Morgan, and Luke Swank.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Architecture and the Spaces of the Imagination
Fall 2008–Winter 2009
Works on Paper gallery
Architectural etchings and engravings by the distinguished Old Master Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1788) from the museum’s collection and from the collections of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, supplemented by works of his contemporaries and followers, will be on view to explore the broad context of Piranesi’s career. Many works from Piranesi’s famous series, Carceri d’invenzione, or Imaginary Prisons, will form a backbone to the exhibition. These prints feature haunting and impressively-detailed architectural scenes that are entirely fantastical. They allow for an investigation of the line between architectural design and the imagination, while also encouraging explorations into the history of prison architecture, and 18th century theoretical, psychological, and social debates about confinement, correction, and punishment. Prints from other well-known series, such as Vedute di Roma, or The Views of Rome,will also be on view.
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
October 4, 2008─January 18, 2009
The Heinz Architectural Center
In the second half of the 20th century, the United States became a largely suburban nation: By 2000, more Americans lived in suburbs than in central cities and rural areas combined. As Americans have drifted ever farther from the urban core that historically was the site of the country’s economic, social, and cultural dynamism and evolution, the nation’s landscape, economy, and demographic profile have been radically transformed. Almost all of the office-job creation in the 1980s took place in suburbs, for example, and the monolithic image of the middle-class, white, two-parent suburban family has proven to be a myth, as increasing numbers of immigrants, ethnic minorities, and households without children make their homes in the suburbs. Neither the middle-class utopia nor the dystopia of homogeneity and conformity they are typically purported to be, American suburbs are instead the locus of richly complex physical, social, and economic conditions. Worlds Away, which is organized by the Walker Art Center in association with Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center, is the first major museum exhibition to examine both artists’ and architects’ responses to the contemporary American suburb. Photographs, architectural models and drawings, animated projections, prints, sculptures, and videos by close to three dozen artists and architects both reflect upon and propose ideas for suburbs, exposing the many layers of these seemingly familiar places.
Special Events and Exhibitions
Architecture Camps
June 16–August 23, 2008
The Heinz Architectural Center
A series of one– and two–week camps dedicated to architectural design, construction, form, and function, and presented in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture, are available for children ages four to 13, as well as high school students. The galleries of Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center are transformed into bustling studios for the architecture camps. A selection of architectural drawings and models from the Center’s collection is put on view to inform and inspire campers and their instructors. The exhibition is open to the public during regular museum hours.
Holidays at Carnegie Museum of Art
December 5, 2008–January 4, 2009
Hall of Architecture
During the holidays, Carnegie Museum of Art decks the Hall of Architecture with delightful seasonal displays and weekend concerts. The Neapolitan presepio has enchanted generations of visitors, while towering holiday trees adorned with handmade ornaments and weekend concerts of seasonal music create a festive atmosphere. Tours are available for the presepio and for works in the galleries that feature seasonal themes, including The Nativity and The King and the Shepherd, dramatic paintings that depict biblical scenes by the19th-century English artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.
Carnegie Museum of Art
Founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museum of Art, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the 16th century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412.622.3131 or visit the museum’s web site at www.cmoa.org.
The exhibitions and dates listed above are subject to change.
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Contact:
Tey Stiteler
Carnegie Museum of Art
412.688.8690
stitelert@carnegiemuseums.org
Leigh Kish
412.622.3316
kishl@carnegiemuseums.org
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