NEUBERGER PRESENTS ‘SUPER OBJECTS’

WD SET 11/14

 

PURCHASE, N.Y. — “Super Objects — Super Comfort for Super People,” an exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art, will be featured from January 27 to March 16.

Merce Cunningham, one of the most important and celebrated choreographers of our time, collaborated with renowned artists John Cage, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. In 1974, these collaborators were invited to produce prints for a portfolio.

“Super Objects-Super Comfort for Super People” includes prints from the portfolio in addition to archival footage of several collaborative works. There are photographs and text panels from this acclaimed series by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, two early pioneers of the Moscow Conceptualist art movement. Taking its cue from American shopping catalogs, this series uses biting humor to promote a set of fictitious devices guaranteed to provide its user with an enhanced sense of self-importance.

Co-curating this show with Margaret Winslow, a candidate in the Purchase College masters program, are three students who are participating in the Neuberger Museum of Art curatorial fellowship program — a competitive, advanced apprenticeship, designed to pair students with curators from the museum to co-curate an exhibition drawn from the permanent collection.

The museum is at 735 Anderson Hill Road. For information, 914-251-6100 or www.neuberger.org