The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World at MoMA

feel [Music] feeling don't stop me no don't [Music] welcome back viewers hey it's James conand the bike and today we're back up here at MoMA and we're going to see an exhibition which should be of great interest if you're a painting head stay tuned and we're going to run in and and see this exhibition the forever now contemporary painting in an atemporal World whatever that means well I've got about uh 20 minutes to run through the show I was a little late and uh the streets of the city were pretty crowded this morning so we'll start out with a sweep of some paintings by Kirsten Brett be uml outed at TS C and uh I'm not going to have time to go through and give you the titles on these but I'll just look at them maybe give you a quick description now these look like they're maybe mixed media on paper and uh just got them laying against the wall and over here you get like a stack of them maybe they'll be rotating in this during the course of the exhibition well I just uh asked a fellow critic what he thought of the show and he said he thought it was uneven and he didn't know whether he agreed with the the premise of the theme but uh I can only say that uh they have a painting show here at MoMA about once every seven or eight years so you know you would appreciate the small favors and just step in here and kind of scan over the front Gallery all I can tell is a Nicole Eisenman well we've got an an entire wall installation of works by Joe Bradley and uh I think Joe is a Brooklyn artist and uh he's been getting a lot of attention for the last I don't know seven or eight years I think I was busted uh at a Whitney by annual with in Joe's room and these are grease pencil on canvas and uh well I would estimate that this piece here is probably about uh 5 by 8 ft 4 and 1/2 by 7 and 1/2 something like that well these uh dark thick paintings caught my eye these are by Rasheed [Music] Johnson and uh yeah it's interesting I makes me think of uh dubet this are black soap and wax this is titled Cosmic slop the Berlin Conference [Music] 2011 this is more Rashid Johnson Cosmic slop black soap and wax by 2013 well I uh went to a uh discussion panel last week they were talking about Pat Poff but her uh her partner was Milton Resnik and uh it's kind of uh facture this chunky surface kind of makes me think of some of uh resnik's late work Michelle Ewald I think another thing that is interesting about this show is that it was organized by Laura Hopman one of the uh young curators that actually we've talked to her in her previous position at uh the new mum this is also by michella eald it's called Kunal St galin synthetic Palmer paint oil cray and lacquer here's Laura Hopman this is the lady that organized the show watch youing do my own thing congratulations thank you it's also Michelle ealt minister to the alien synthetic polymer paint wax lacquer and tempera on synthetic [Music] leather well she was talking about or Laura was talking about people kind of mixing and matching parts of art history you so there's the uh the Jackson poock splashes or slashes of paint the uh Schnabel esque slathers AR this almost make me think of an early Philip [Music] Gustin well I was reading the Press preview Nicole Eisenman hadle ground swell and uh one of the things that I guess Laura was trying to do was uh show that a lot of contemporary painting is not really some monolithic movement that there are a lot of various approaches people are borrowing a lot from past history sort of mixing matchy it's kind of a giant uh painly Mosh Pit in a lot of ways and uh my idea was that that's not so different from what uh archello Bonito Olivia was doing or theorizing about with the transv on guard back in the late 70s this is titled guy capitalist maybe these labels are not really clear oh she's got some uh look like collage elements in here I think these are oil on canvas maybe mixed media that's and timkin who curates here it's a beautiful wall of paintings by Mark [Music] groin and uh I have a lot of painter friends that think that Mark is one of the hottest tickets out there this is Untitled Untitled and Untitled oil on cardboard mounted on linen collection of Donald B Marin well Mark is an LA painter and uh I think we covered one of his shows probably three or four years ago down in Chelsea that was pretty extraordinary and I think that these pieces are probably about 8 by 5 ft and uh he's mounted cardboard on top of the linen and well you can sort of see the uh the variations as he squeegees over there and hits the little ridges in the cardboard now you know I'm thinking of uh repella the Canadian artist with a little of this I am uh of in a hurry so we're going to do kind of a cursory job here and just we get some panning views and it's another large piece by Rashad well that's got to be about uh maybe 8 by 10 ft and uh H looks like they got the media out some works by Oscar Millo now Oscar has been getting a lot of press lately for some of his Shenanigans and uh he's also been uh made the uh postered boy or The Whipping Boy for what they're calling the uh flipper art and uh I don't know he's maybe his late 20s early 30s and uh the pieces are already selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars and Oscars is from Colombia it's titled 7 plus oil oil stick spray and graphite on canvas on linen well kind of like the way that uh he's sewing these things together or patching them [Music] together and uh yeah here again we got a reference to abstract expressionism and uh even I would say maybe bot's uh street art from the mid 80s and uh this kind of presentation on the floor makes me think of Sam Gilliam great uh great painter from Washington DC this is more Oscar Untitled 2014 well they are putting forth this show as a Showcase of some of the youngest and uh freshest most uh Cutting Edge painting these days and uh just for my own opinion I would say that in a lot of ways this is more like a uh best of collection many of these people have already been featured in Whitney by anels um other major shows at uh big museums this is by Mary weatherfor titled Len no and [Music] uh okay so she's got the uh neon tubes which is uh recalls Mario Merz and then she's uh got some splashy abstraction back here but uh oh gosh she's got some great linen and this is a big painting it's got to be 10 ft tall I guess the uh the way the light kind of beams off the various parts of the painting is kind of interesting the way it changes the [Music] character okay uh I always get paranoid when I see all these pieces of NE technology sticking out of the the paintings here this is Julie maratu oh that's a surprise most of uh Julie's previous work that I've seen is very uh almost like architectural design conceptual design using a lot of very hard edged graphic techniques and uh I'm almost afraid to ask what the uh the speakers [Music] do and here we've got a couple of uh smaller pieces I wonder if this is supposed to be an installation this is titled heavier than air written form 2014 ink and synthetic polymer paint on canvas let's see that's about uh 4X six and uh another piece by [Music] Julie campaign jeder form well seems like uh maybe Sable is a of presence here some more Mary Weatherford northchester Avenue I always have the feeling that these uh extensions to the Transformer boxes are also part of the painting these are kind of like a a line that leads off the picture plane more by Mary Coney Island well in this case I think maybe more the neon is better but uh as a painter I think maybe the the neon is a distraction from what you're actually doing on the picture plane this is more by Christian brush siggies Urban these are agot glass masks and painted aluminum and uh gee we saw these pieces at Gavin Browns so uh both Joe Bradley and Christian Kristen are Gavin brown or at least they were artists it's a nice little uh compartment of paintings let's start over here Charlene Von H this is German born 1960 and this is titled charlot oil synthetic polymer paint and charcoal on canvas well again a lot of this recalls some of the bad painting some of the neoexpressionism although uh maybe by this point it's been mediated and so these people are actually seeing it through photos or uh magazine reproductions I like the color thing on this it's votes behind me that I am crazy cat 2010 synthetic polymer paint and oil on Cotton On linen I like The Punchy black and white there Charlene van this is titled canetto special and they've got a note here that I don't have time to read but uh Luciano fatano slash painting well this is a big painting this is Chris Martin size this is by Matt Connor and uh it's titled variable foot and it's actually uh three different canvases so it's a triptic stacked together and I don't know but I would say that's got to be at least uh maybe 20 ft tall and uh I know 12 ft wide and uh you come on up and stand close to this and you can actually get the the radiant beams from the color it's a hot red well this is sweet Amy Silman has got a whole little room here Amy's also another uh Williamsburg painter he got a lot of fans in Brooklyn and uh Amy was also featured in the Michelle grabner curated banal this year this Untitled head and uh I like what Amy's doing with her uh her Grays these days she's using very uh nice uh subtle Paladin mixing in a lot of tints into the Grays this is a big piece Miss gleon oil on canvas and I would say that this is at least uhbe 9t Square 8T Square Amy's got a wonderful touch and she's uh probably broke through about eight or nine years ago still life number two it's probably about 7 by5 [Music] I sometimes get the feeling of uh early Philip Gustin still life number one oil on [Music] canvas well we'll run through oh there's Walter Robinson it's another Matt Connor's piece mat is an American Born 1973 this is titled divot synthetic colal paint and pencil on canvas so kind of uh working with the Barnet Newman but using today's latest fashionable tertiary colors it's a big piece by Laura Owens I don't know but I would imagine that it's probably titled always do your best well Laura was also in the Whitney this year this is acrylic soak screen inks flash oil gesso on linen and uh well I think one of the of the new approaches to this work is that a lot of it is using technology like the photo silk screen and the uh and the distortions you get from that kind of mediation and uh oh look at that she's got some uh paint that she's gooped on [Music] there well they're going to try to kick me out but I'm going to try to finish this off Diana Molen you give me like 2 minutes I'm just about done damal isn't well I'm having to talk my life away [Music] here okay well a lot of this makes me think of kienberg and they're going to run me out of the gallery [Music] now okay okay thank you this John Smith well and so you saw it folks that was it I ran out of time the Hammer of the authori come down on me this is James CM coming to you from Museum of Modern Art reporting on forever now contemporary painting in an atemporal world and uh boy congratulations to all the artists now everybody get the heck out of here thank you Kate thank you James Brown medley now all right

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Views: 80,967

Keywords: James Kalm, Laura Hoptman, Richard Aldrich, Joe Bradley, Kerstin Brätsch, Matt Connors, Michaela Eichwald, Nicole Eisenman, Mark Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Dianna Molzan, Oscar Murillo, Laura Owens, Amy Sillman, Josh Smith, Mary Weatherford, Michael Williams, painting, drawing, sculpture, Museum Modern Art

Id: HNYnJ0-jY8s

Length: 26min 51sec (1611 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 11 2014