In 2007 the Dallas Museum of Art presented Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, a special two-part exhibition organized by guest curator Maria de Corral of 300 works from the modern and contemporary holdings of the Hoffman, Rachofsky, and Rose families of Dallas, who together gifted their private collections and future acquisitions to the Museum in 2005.
This spring, de Corral, now the DMA’s Hoffman Family Adjunct Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, will curate Private Universes, a new exhibition of artwork that has been acquired by Dallas collectors and DMA patrons as well as by works from the Museum’s collections. This exhibition will be on view through August 2, 2009.
“My objective with Private Universes,” says de Corral, “ is to create through the private collections of Dallas situations, moments, concepts, experiences, and narrations in a way that each gallery would be a ‘private universe,’ and in which neither the chronology nor the technique or history is important in the way they are installed.”
Private Universes will also feature three new major works acquired jointly by the Museum and The Rachofsky Collection with the DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund. These new acquisitions include paintings by Marlene Dumas and Jim Hodges, along with a sculpture by Yayoi Kusama.
The picture shows Marcel Dzama. The Minotaur, 2008, plaster, gauze, rope, fabric, chair, bucket, and paintbrushes, Dallas Museum of Art, DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund, 2008.43.2.a–e, © Marcel Dzama. -- www.dallasmuseumofart.org
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