Gert & Uwe Tobias: Projects 86: Gert & Uwe Tobias, MoMA: Museum of Modern Art
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Gert & Uwe Tobias
Projects 86: Gert & Uwe TobiasNovember 28, 2007 – February 25, 2008
Moma: Museum of modern art, New York, USAFor their first New York museum exhibition, and as part of MoMA’s ongoing Projects series, Gert and Uwe Tobias (German, born Romania 1973), artistic collaborators and twin brothers, have created a single-gallery installation of over 20 works which include vivid large-scale woodcuts along with a ceramic sculpture, gouaches, collages, and playful drawings made with a typewriter. Two of the woodcuts in the installation are from the Museum’s collection, and others are new works being exhibited for the first time. On view November 28, 2007, through February 25, 2008, the exhibition is organized by Sarah Suzuki, The Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art.
“Gert and Uwe Tobias are adding their own distinct voice to the illustrious art historical tradition of the woodcut while drawing on a range of influences from Hollywood B-movies to Eastern European folk art," states Ms. Suzuki.
Displaying a lush color sensibility and striking graphic compositions, the Tobias brothers’ woodcuts, typewriter drawings, gouaches, ceramic sculptures, and architectonic wooden constructions investigate the complexity of cultural identity through imagery inspired by the brothers’ own personal history. Although they moved to Germany at age 12, the brothers were born in Brasov, Romania, a former Saxon colony located in Transylvania. Their work merges subjects and motifs including folklore; eastern European vernacular arts and crafts; the Russian avant-garde; Constructivism; and Transylvania’s historical figure Vlad Tepes, and Dracula, the literary and cinematic character based on Tepes. They frequently combine these varied mediums and themes in playfully designed installations by painting the gallery walls with linear forms and vectors to create a unified space that allows the viewer to enter an artist-created environment.
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