Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection
The Hessel Museum of Art and the CCS Bard galleries are currently open to a limited number of visitors by reservation, and to Bard College students, staff, and faculty without reservation. To read our Covid-19 Courtesy Code, please visit this page.
CCS Bard celebrates its 30th anniversary with Closer to Life, an exhibition of drawings and works on paper by over fifty artists from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. The exhibition was originally planned for 2020 (CCS Bard was founded in 1990) and was postponed due to Covid-19.
The exhibition of over 75 drawings and works on paper spans more than four decades of collecting by philanthropist, Marieluise Hessel, who co-founded the Center for Curatorial Studies in 1990. Closer to Life tracks a lifetime of collecting that spans periods of Hessel鈥檚 life spent in Germany, Mexico and the United States. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog that documents the entire collection of more than 300 works on paper, the exhibition presents highlights that reverberate with questions of gender, sexuality, race and politics often through personal expression and individual concerns. Revisiting different artistic periods and contexts, the exhibition draws out both contrasts and comparisons between artists, modes of representation and the continuing vitality of drawing (and paper) as an artistic medium.
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The Hessel Museum of Art and the CCS Bard galleries are currently open to a limited number of visitors by reservation, and to Bard College students, staff, and faculty without reservation. To read our Covid-19 Courtesy Code, please visit this page.
CCS Bard celebrates its 30th anniversary with Closer to Life, an exhibition of drawings and works on paper by over fifty artists from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. The exhibition was originally planned for 2020 (CCS Bard was founded in 1990) and was postponed due to Covid-19.
The exhibition of over 75 drawings and works on paper spans more than four decades of collecting by philanthropist, Marieluise Hessel, who co-founded the Center for Curatorial Studies in 1990. Closer to Life tracks a lifetime of collecting that spans periods of Hessel鈥檚 life spent in Germany, Mexico and the United States. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog that documents the entire collection of more than 300 works on paper, the exhibition presents highlights that reverberate with questions of gender, sexuality, race and politics often through personal expression and individual concerns. Revisiting different artistic periods and contexts, the exhibition draws out both contrasts and comparisons between artists, modes of representation and the continuing vitality of drawing (and paper) as an artistic medium.
Artists on show
- Allen Ruppersberg
- Anselm Kiefer
- Arnulf Rainer
- Cady Noland
- Carlos Mérida
- Cecily Brown
- Charles LeDray
- Clotilde Jimenez
- Dan Miller
- Danh Vo
- David Koloane
- David Wojnarowicz
- Deborah Barrett
- Diane Simpson
- Felix González-Torres
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Gabriel Orozco
- General Idea
- Georg Baselitz
- Gerhard Richter
- Germán Venegas
- Giuseppe Penone
- Hollis Sigler
- Imi Knoebel
- Isa Genzken
- Jörg Immendorff
- Joseph Beuys
- Kai Althoff
- Kara Walker
- Lorna Simpson
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo
- Maria Lassnig
- Martin Kippenberger
- Matt Mullican
- Nahum B. Zenil
- Nancy Spero
- Nick Cave
- Nicole Eisenman
- Peter Saul
- Rachel Harrison
- Rashid Johnson
- Ray Johnson
- Robert Gober
- Robert Kushner
- Robert Longo
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Sable Elyse Smith
- Seydou Keïta
- Sigmar Polke
- Sol LeWitt
- Thomas Schütte
- Toyin Odutola
- Ulrike Müller
- William Nelson Copley
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