Friday, Jul. 17, 2015 – Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015
Affecting Presence brings together a diverse selection of objects from the Menil’s holdings to explore the convergence of American anthropologist Robert Plant Armstrong’s object-empowering philosophy with the viewer’s individual pursuit of the delicious. The exhibition highlights abstraction as an artistic means used across time, place, and culture to make present the ineffable forces that shape human experiences.
Works by Max Ernst, Constantin Brancusi, Frank Bowling, Sam Gilliam, Eduardo Chillida, and other artists that made important contributions to abstract art during the twentieth century are presented alongside a variety of abstract forms from earlier eras, showcasing the rich history of this aesthetic practice.
Constantin Brancusi. Untitled, ca. 1925. Red oak, 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (36.8 x 54.6 x 26 cm).
The Menil Collection, Houston. © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Paul Hester
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