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Current Exhibitions
Romuald Hazoumè: The Fâ Series
September 6 – December 22, 2023
This exhibition presents a significant, though little-known, body of work by celebrated artist Romuald Hazoumè based on his dedicated study of Fâ divination.
Fâ is a centuries-old knowledge system that originated among Yorùbá-speaking communities in Nigeria, where it is known as Ifá. Its practice has since extended elsewhere in west Africa including the Republic of Benin, where Hazoumè is based, and to the diaspora.
Romuald Hazoumè: The Fâ Series presents twenty-two works, primarily from the mid-1990s. The majority of these large-scale canvases draw from the visual lexicon associated with Fâ, evoking its sacred knowledge through symbols and signs. While the series is regarded by the artist as foundational to his overall creative practice, it has received scant attention to date. The Neuberger exhibition will be the first to focus exclusively on these intimate and esoteric works that hold deep personal meaning for the artist.
About the Artist
Romuald Hazoumè was born in 1962 in Porto-Novo, Benin, where he maintains his studio practice today. An internationally acclaimed artist who works across media, Hazoumè has exhibited his work in major museums across the globe including the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; the Centre Pompidou, Louis Vuitton Foundation, and the Musée Quai Branly in Paris; the ICP in New York; and most recently, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He has participated in biennials in Lyon, Gwangju and Moscow and, in 2007, was awarded the Arnold Bode Prize at documenta 12. His works are in prominent public and private collections around the world, including the permanent collections of the Fondation Zinsou in Cotonou, the British Museum in London, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pigozzi Collection in Geneva and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Romuald Hazoumè: The Fâ Series will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by exhibition curator Christa Clarke and by Didier Houénoudé, professor of art history at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Cotonou, Benin, that will be the first extensive exploration of this important body of work.
The exhibition is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art and curated by Christa Clarke, an independent curator and art historian and Senior Advisor at the Center for Curatorial Leadership.
Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Purchase College Foundation, and ArtsWestchester, with support from the Westchester County Government.
Dennis Oppenheim: The Assembly Line
ON VIEW: Extended through December 2023
A machine is a perfect way to describe the mind.
– Dennis Oppenheim
Throughout his long career, Dennis Oppenheim explored a myriad of art practices: conceptual art, land art, body art, performance, and public art. Contemporary to other major American artists who grew out of the minimalist school that emerged in the late sixties, by the 1980s he had begun creating immersive sculptures.
The Assembly Line (with By-Products from a Mechanical Trance) is part of Oppenheim’s “Factory Series,” in which elaborate systems of industrial imagery become metaphors for mental activity, giving physical form to creative impulses and other cerebral processes. His work encompasses both the compulsive manufacture of notions and the cathartic alchemy of inspiration when ideas become artwork and transfer the artist’s meaning to another’s mind.
One of the largest sculptures in the permanent collection, The Assembly Line (with By-Products from a Mechanical Trance) was donated to the Neuberger Museum of Art by Warner Communications Inc. It was first exhibited at the Neuberger in 1984 and most recently in 2006.
This exhibition is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art and curated by Patrice Giasson, Alex Gordon Curator of Art of the Americas, and Jacqueline Shilkoff, Curator of New Media and Director of Digital Initiatives. Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the Roy R. Neuberger Legacy Endowment.
From Your Collection: Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Voices
December 6, 2023 – March 24, 2024
In an era in which individuals may live and work in multiple locations, often outside their native country, we may ask if it remains relevant to think in regional terms. This question is essential, as many artists prefer not to carry a national banner, but instead consider themselves actors engaged in a universal dialogue.
From Your Collection: Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Voices features a selection of paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures that have been donated to, or purchased by, the Neuberger Museum of Art over the last decade. Many of these works tie to global contemporary debates, while also referencing specific realities through a variety of voices in order to better understand the global nature of the world we live in, and explore the multiple voices at the base of fruitful contemporary debates that challenge it.
The exhibition showcases the work of fifteen leading artists from across the Americas, including: Engels the Artist (Haiti-US), Henry Bermudez (Venezuela-US), Leda Catunda (Brazil), Arturo Duclos (Chile), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba-Spain), Ignacio Iturria (Uruguay), Alfredo Jaar (Chile-US), Nicolás de Jesús (Mexico), María Martínez-Cañas (Cuba-US), Marta María Pérez Bravo (Cuba-US), Dulce Pinzón (Mexico-Quebec), Betsabeé Romero (Mexico), Gerardo Suter (Argentina-Mexico), Julian Trigo (Argentina), and Eugenia Vargas (Chile-US). These artists are all still actively producing works today.
 
From Your Collection: Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Voices is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and curated by Patrice Giasson, Alex Gordon Curator for the Art of the Americas. The project ties both to the curricular work being done by colleagues across the Purchase College campus in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies as well as the recent federal designation of Purchase College as a Hispanic Serving Institution. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Alex Gordon Estate.
A Special Look: Louis Michel Eilshemius
The largest body of work by a single artist in the Neuberger Museum of Art’s collection is by Louis Michel Eilshemius, who is represented by more than a hundred paintings, watercolors, and drawings.
A Special Look: The Landscapes of Louis Michel Eilshemius features a focused group of works created by the artist between 1874 and 1909 that reflect his academic training and interest in the longstanding European tradition of landscape painting. Like many of his predecessors from the nineteenth century, Eilshemius traveled throughout Europe and made several journeys to distant countries. His works were created both “en plein air,” and in his studio after images from his sketchbook.
The artist struggled all his life to attract public attention and sales. So, considering Roy Neuberger’s collecting proclivities, what might have prompted him to purchase such a large body of work by Eilshemius? Perhaps one appeal lay in the diversity of the artist’s subjects and mediums, as the acquired works covered a range of motifs—from street scenes reminiscent of the Ashcan Scholl to orientalist views of far-flung locales, to what became arguably his signature images, fantasies of nymphlike nudes in sylvan settings—and included pencil drawings, watercolors, and oils.
A previous version of The Landscapes of Louis Michel Eilshemius was featured in the Neuberger Museum of Art from January to April, 2011. The exhibition was originally curated by curatorial intern Caroline Piazza, under the supervision of Patrice Giasson, the Alex Gordon Curator of Art of the Americas, who modified it for this Special Look.
Generous support for this project is provided by the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art and the Purchase College Foundation.
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