“Degree Zero” recasts the 1950s as a time when many artists in different parts of the world approached art with an experimental attitude. You may get stuck, as I did, trying to figure out who made the large, vibrant ink drawing on the show’s first wall. There are other less than familiar sights: drawings that MoMA acquired in the 1950s but has seldom exhibited, and others that it has acquired since, some quite recently. It complements the expansive marshalling of yellows and greens in his great “Composition 16” (1954-56), a painting that MoMA acquired in 2012. Art may be long, but it is also extremely broad and varied — more than any single narrative can encompass.

Source: bd News24 May 08, 2021 05:48 UTC