Dona Nelson and Willem de Kooning are featured in the 16th White Columns Annual. Selected by curator and advisor Augusto Arbizo, this year's exhibition exploires the complexities of viewing art within New York's "constantly shifting cultural landscapes." The format of this year's exhibit emphasizes the historical, social, and aesthetics networks of exchange which circulate the city and larger art world.
"Through the recontextualization of artworks encountered in other circumstances, the exhibition hopes to establish – albeit temporarily – a new ‘narrative,’ a conversation of sorts, amongst both artists and artworks that seeks to illuminate and/or explore certain underlying tendencies or connections that might otherwise have remained elusive or obscured. In rethinking aspects of the (fairly) recent past the exhibition hopes to provoke something akin to a sense of déjà vu, establishing a scenario that is at once both reflective and forward-thinking."
Image courtesy of White Columns, New York. Photo: Marc Tatti.
Image courtesy of White Columns, New York. Photo: Marc Tatti.