Ren茅e Green: The Equator Has Moved
Ren茅e Green: The Equator Has Moved marks the multidisciplinary artist鈥檚 first major solo museum presentation in New York. Since the late 1980s, Green has produced densely layered, knowledge-based work that adapts strategies of Minimal and Conceptual art from the 1960s and 鈥70s. In her uniquely recursive process, Green juxtaposes a range of materials鈥攁rchival, documentary, and literary fragments; personal and found ephemera; speculative narratives; and her own extant work鈥攖o probe the unstable boundaries between fact and fiction, public recollection and personal memory.
Constellating historical, reconfigured, and newly commissioned work in the nexus of Dia Beacon鈥檚 floor plan, the two expansive central galleries and the perpendicular corridor, this chronologically defiant presentation aptly stages the artist鈥檚 practice in contact and context with influential figures key to Dia鈥檚 history and Green鈥檚 formation. Foundational multimedia installations that critically reconsider art-historical genres of site, landscape, and Land art return to view in the United States for the first time in over three decades. Reunited in its entirety at Dia, Green鈥檚 Color series from the early 1990s examines how color functions as a tool for categorization; an arbitrary and socially coded value system; and an efficacious perceptual and spatial device for the artist鈥檚 poetic imaginings. Engaging both the walls and the ceiling, Green suspends a new series of vibrant, text-based banners, or Space Poems, along the corridors鈥 linear expanse, complemented by a new body of wall-mounted variations in enamel. Similarly, new hybrid configurations of the artist鈥檚 Bichos鈥攎ulticolored, modular, geometric units for viewing and listening鈥攚ill be distributed throughout the galleries, functioning as provisional media architectures featuring selections from Green鈥檚 compendium of moving-image and sound works.
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Ren茅e Green: The Equator Has Moved marks the multidisciplinary artist鈥檚 first major solo museum presentation in New York. Since the late 1980s, Green has produced densely layered, knowledge-based work that adapts strategies of Minimal and Conceptual art from the 1960s and 鈥70s. In her uniquely recursive process, Green juxtaposes a range of materials鈥攁rchival, documentary, and literary fragments; personal and found ephemera; speculative narratives; and her own extant work鈥攖o probe the unstable boundaries between fact and fiction, public recollection and personal memory.
Constellating historical, reconfigured, and newly commissioned work in the nexus of Dia Beacon鈥檚 floor plan, the two expansive central galleries and the perpendicular corridor, this chronologically defiant presentation aptly stages the artist鈥檚 practice in contact and context with influential figures key to Dia鈥檚 history and Green鈥檚 formation. Foundational multimedia installations that critically reconsider art-historical genres of site, landscape, and Land art return to view in the United States for the first time in over three decades. Reunited in its entirety at Dia, Green鈥檚 Color series from the early 1990s examines how color functions as a tool for categorization; an arbitrary and socially coded value system; and an efficacious perceptual and spatial device for the artist鈥檚 poetic imaginings. Engaging both the walls and the ceiling, Green suspends a new series of vibrant, text-based banners, or Space Poems, along the corridors鈥 linear expanse, complemented by a new body of wall-mounted variations in enamel. Similarly, new hybrid configurations of the artist鈥檚 Bichos鈥攎ulticolored, modular, geometric units for viewing and listening鈥攚ill be distributed throughout the galleries, functioning as provisional media architectures featuring selections from Green鈥檚 compendium of moving-image and sound works.
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