28.Juni 2002- 12.Jänner 2003 Guggenheim Museum, New York

SHIRIN NESHAT, Passage, 2001 (still). Color video installation with sound, 00:11:40

During the 1970s, a significant paradigm shift occurred within postwar culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical contemporary art practices. In this period, many artists utilized photographic strategies to extend and challenge traditional artistic media and to create works that privileged information or documentary evidence over personal expression. By the end of the 1970s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation itself. While this practice came to define much of the art of the 1980s, its legacy for the 1990s was the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative. Artists working today freely manipulate representations of the empirical world or invent entirely new cosmologies. Some artists intervene directly in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world in order to establish their presence in it, while others fabricate fictional environments for the camera lens. This exhibition, drawn primarily from the Guggenheim Museum's permanent collection, will consider the prevalence of reproducible media in the art of the last ten years, while locating the roots of this phenomenon in the art of the 1970s. Featured works by pioneers such as Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Smithson, as well as recent work by Stan Douglas, Olafur Eliasson, Anna Gaskell, Andreas Gursky, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Kara Walker. [/] moving pictures