November 21, 2016–March 19,
2017
Is a comprehensive survey of Picabia’s audacious,
irreverent, and profoundly influential work across mediums. This will be the
first exhibition in the United States to chart his entire career.
Among the
great modern artists of the past century, Francis Picabia (French, 1879–1953)
also remains one of the most elusive. He vigorously avoided any singular style,
and his work encompassed painting, poetry, publishing, performance and film.
Though he is best known as one of the leaders of the Dada movement, his career
ranged widely—and wildly—from Impressionism to radical abstraction, from
Dadaist provocation to pseudo-classicism, and from photo-based realism to art informel.Picabia’s consistent inconsistencies, his
appropriative strategies, and his stylistic eclecticism, along with his
skeptical attitude, make him especially relevant for contemporary artists, and
his career as a whole challenges familiar narratives of the avant-garde.
Francis Picabia features
over 200 works, including some 125 paintings, key works on paper, periodicals
and printed matter, illustrated letters, and one film. The exhibition aims to
advance the understanding of Picabia’s relentless shape-shifting, and how his
persistent questioning of the meaning and purpose of art ensured his
iconoclastic legacy’s lasting influence.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1670?locale=en
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