NEW YORK, March 29 (Reuters) – The Whitney Biennial in New York, a up to date artwork present that has boosted the careers of painters comparable to Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock, is returning with a give attention to completely different generations and the hyperlink between previous, current and future.
The present, “Quiet As It is Saved,” options 63 artists and collectives throughout generations, mediums and borders on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork, in a format that started in 1973.
The present presents “hunches” as a substitute of a unified theme, with time as a leitmotif, mentioned curators Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin, who labored on it for 3 years.
Folks have a look at a sequence of 5 images by artist Daniel Joseph Martinez on the Whitney Biennial 2022 exhibition on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork in New York Metropolis, New York, U.S., March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Roselle Chen
“This query of time and the way we expertise time, how time appears so suspended or actually quick or lengthy,” Edwards mentioned, noting that she had misplaced her sense of time in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This isn’t a present made for Zoom,” Breslin added. “The expertise of being right here, the way in which that every ground has its personal form of sense and sensibility was crucial for placing it collectively and to have an emotional context to be able to obtain it.”
The Whitney Biennial runs from April 6 to Sept. 5.
Reporting by Roselle Chen; Enhancing by Richard Chang
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