MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
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Mira Schendel, Untitled from Graphic Objects series
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Apr 5, 2009 – June 15, 2009
Mondays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Wednesdays–Thursdays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays (10:30am–8pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10:30am–5:30pm)
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- Price
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$20
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Note:
Admission is free Friday evenings from 4-8pm.
For all its fundamental utility, language can also warp into an abstract whatsit — at least in the artful hands of theorist Roland Barthes and those other Left-Bank brains of yesteryear. During the tempestuous '60s and '80s, conceptual artists León Ferrari (Argentina) and Mira Schendel (Brazil) took on a similar, linguistics-focused approach, and the many textual drawings, sculptures, and paintings that materialized make up Tangled Alphabets. Along with scraps of poetry, articles from local media, and a military letter here and there, the South Americans' symbolic word art — variously handwritten, heaped, or swirled into dense gray shapes that resemble bird's nests — brings into focus the countless ideological messages coded into language.
