THE WEXNER CENTER REOPENS ITS GALLERIES WITH THE SUMPTUOUS,
GROUNDBREAKING EXHIBITION PART OBJECT PART SCULPTURE
From Marcel Duchamp and Louise Bourgeois to Robert Gober and Josiah
McElheny, Exhibition Uncovers a New Genealogy of Contemporary Visual Art
To reopen the extraordinary spaces of its restored and enhanced galleries, the Wexner Center for the Arts will present the groundbreaking exhibition Part Object Part Sculpture, on view October 30, 2005 - February 26, 2006. Offering a surprising new genealogy of art since World War 11, in which repetition is organic instead of solely industrial, and sculpture appeals as much to the unconscious as to the intellect, the exhibition features nearly 100 important works by renowned international figures.
Occupying all galleries of the Wexner Center, Part Object Part Sculpture includes major pieces on loan from public and private collections in the United States and abroad-many of them rarely seen in the U.S.-primarily spanning the 1940s to the present. Through them, the exhibition establishes a rich history of sculpture grounded in the handmade, the sensual, and the erotic, and explores the shifting boundaries between painting and sculpture, between sculpture and everyday objects.
"Part Object Part Sculpture is an intellectually provocative and erotically charged exhibition that will place the sculptural practice of the last half-century in an entirely new light," says Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin. "I believe this exhibition will aptly and exquisitely engage both the physical territory of the building and the conceptual territory of the center's mission.