ART-TRIBUTE:Infinite Blue, Part I

Hito Steyerl, Liquidity Inc., 2014, Installation view, Courtesy Brooklyn MuseumThe Brooklyn Museum presents “Infinite Blue”, a major Collection exhibition in, that uses the color blue as a lens through which to explore art from ancient Egypt to the present. Through a cross-generational and multidisciplinary array of work, blue is examined as a link from the past to the present: as a historical force for global commerce; as an emblem of power, beauty, and spiritualism; and as a symbol for gender difference, among other uses and purposes (Part II).

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Brooklyn Museum Archive

Opened to the public in four phases, ”Infinite Blue” expands throughout its run to represent the breadth of the Museum’s global collections, including objects from our holdings of Asian, Egyptian, African, American, Native American, and European art, among them paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, the decorative arts, illuminated manuscripts, printed books, and contemporary art. The exhibition engages visitors from the moment they enter the Museum’s glass Pavilion with “Untitled (Water)”, an expansive curtain of blue iridescent beads by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and “Liquidity Inc.”, an immersive video experience by Hito Steryl in the Museum’s Great Hall. Significant works include Joseph Kosuth’s “276 (On Color Blue)”, in which he reproduces in blue neon a quotation from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that questions our perception of blueness; and five works from Byron Kim’s ongoing series of “Sunday Paintings”, which represent the sky on the day they were painted with a short text of activities from the artist’s life on that day. The exhibition is part of A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art through ten diverse exhibitions and an extensive calendar of related public programs.

Info: Curatorial Team: Yekaterina Barbash, Susan L. Beningson, Meghan Bill, Edward Bleiberg, Connie Choi, Joan Cummins, Susan Fisher, Barry R. Harwood, Deirdre Lawrence, Cora Michael, Kimberly Orcutt, Nancy Rosoff, Lisa Small, Sara Softness, and Eugenie Tsai, Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, Duration: 25/11/16-5/11/17, Days & Hours: Wed & Fri-sun 11:00-18:00, Thu 11:00-22:00, www.brooklynmuseum.org

Right Eye from an Anthropoid Coffin, Egypt; New Kingdom or later, 1539-30 B.C.E., Obsidian, crystalline limestone, blue glass, 2.1 x 5.8 x 2.6 cm,  Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1951E., Photo: Sarah DeSantis-Brooklyn Museum
Right Eye from an Anthropoid Coffin, Egypt; New Kingdom or later, 1539-30 B.C.E., Obsidian, crystalline limestone, blue glass, 2.1 x 5.8 x 2.6 cm, Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1951E., Photo: Sarah DeSantis-Brooklyn Museum

 

 

Walter Dorwin Teague, Sparton Table Radio, circa 1936, Sparks-Withington Co.,-Jackson Michigan, Glass, metal, wood, rubber, 22.2 x 44.5 x 21.3 cm, Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by the Walter Foundation, 83.158, Photo: Brooklyn Museum
Walter Dorwin Teague, Sparton Table Radio, circa 1936, Sparks-Withington Co.,-Jackson Michigan, Glass, metal, wood, rubber, 22.2 x 44.5 x 21.3 cm, Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by the Walter Foundation, 83.158, Photo: Brooklyn Museum

 

 

Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. (founded 1759), Tray, Part of a Jasper Tea Service, circa 1785, Etruria-England, Tinted stoneware, 12.7 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm, Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Emily Winthrop Miles, 61.199.69, Photo: Brooklyn Museum
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd. (founded 1759), Tray, Part of a Jasper Tea Service, circa 1785, Etruria-England, Tinted stoneware, 12.7 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm, Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Emily Winthrop Miles, 61.199.69, Photo: Brooklyn Museum

 

 

Joseph Kosuth, 276 (On Color Blue), 1993, Neon tubing, transformer, and electrical wires, 76.2 x 411.48 cm, Brooklyn Museum, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, 1992.215, © 2016 Joseph Kosuth / Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York, Photo: Brooklyn Museum
Joseph Kosuth, 276 (On Color Blue), 1993, Neon tubing, transformer, and electrical wires, 76.2 x 411.48 cm, Brooklyn Museum, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, 1992.215, © 2016 Joseph Kosuth / Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York, Photo: Brooklyn Museum

 

 

Hito Steyerl, Liquidity Inc., 2014, Installation view, Courtesy Brooklyn Museum
Hito Steyerl, Liquidity Inc., 2014, Installation view, Courtesy Brooklyn Museum

 

 

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Water), 1995, Installation View, Courtesy Brooklyn Museum
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Water), 1995, Installation View, Courtesy Brooklyn Museum

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