Museum of Modern Art, New York will present an exhibition of prints and illustrated books named 'Multiplex', on view from November 21, 2007 to July 28, 2008. During the 1970s, there was a shift in critical thinking about art when a range of divergent approaches and multiple mediums became the subject of attention, rather than one dominant trend or movement.
This was the moment when a restrictive view of modernism gave way to broader interpretive models and the idea of one “ism” following another was replaced by the concept of “pluralism,” a term that took firm hold at that time.
Such an open view remains relevant to the contemporary scene today as we witness the lively interchange of a wide variety of artistic practices. This installation, which is part of an on-going series devoted to the Museum’s contemporary art collection, examines three distinctive paths for art and includes painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, photography, and media works.
One section is devoted to formal and conceptual ideas of abstraction, while another deals with thematic issues of memory and mutability. A third segment brings together art that provokes---from the outrageous to the humorous to the politically challenging. While these constellations of works are not meant to define strict categories, they demonstrate the vitality of art in the contemporary period, and the broad sense of possibility and potential it embraces. -- www.moma.org
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