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찰스 화이트 회고전@MoMA+시카고아트인스티튜트 (10/7-1/13, 2019)
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MoMA ANNOUNCES THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE RETROSPECTIVE OF THE
WORK OF CHARLES WHITE IN OVER 30 YEARS
NEW YORK, January 17, 2018—With Charles White: A Retrospective, The Museum of
Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago present the first major museum exhibition of
Charles White’s oeuvre in over 30 years, on view at The Museum of Modern Art from
October 7, 2018, through January 13, 2019. Covering the full breadth of his career with over
100 multidisciplinary works, the exhibition features drawings, paintings, prints, photographs,
and contextual ephemera. Charles White: A Retrospective is organized by Esther Adler,
Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints; and Sarah Kelly Oehler, FieldMcCormick
Chair and Curator of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to its MoMA
presentation, the exhibition will be on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 8 through
September 3, 2018. Following its MoMA presentation, the exhibition will travel to the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where it will be on view in Spring 2019.
Beginning in the late 1930s and concluding with White’s premature death in 1979, the
exhibition features a detailed overview of his work over a four-decade span of enormous
change in the US that provided a constant wellspring of subject matter for the artist. The
presentation reveals White as a responsive visual strategist who was open to exploring styles
and techniques inspired by contemporary art and culture, and a savvy interpreter of an
evolving political climate. White’s commitment to figuration, to directly addressing the social
and political concerns of his time, and to mastering mediums that allowed for wide circulation
of his art established him as a major figure, and one with significant influence on his peers and
followers.
The exhibition is organized chronologically, with groupings centered on the cities and creative
communities in which White lived and worked. Each section will be supported by relevant
ephemera and supporting materials detailing White’s working process, political and social
activities, and role as a teacher.
The Art Institute and MoMA will co-publish a comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue to
accompany the exhibition, including essays by curators from each participating institution, as
well as Kellie Jones, Associate Professor in Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for
Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University, and Deborah Willis,
University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch
School of the Arts at New York University. MoMA also recently published the book Charles
White: Black Pope, which provides a concise overview of White’s career and an in-depth
exploration of the monumental late drawing Black Pope (Sandwich Board Man) (1973), which
entered the Museum’s collection in 2013.
