Program
Mar 18, 2016 - Sep 3, 2016
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible

This Exhibition features works by some of the greatest artists of all time. The painting of Titian Vecellio: Apollo a Marsyas, 1570 -76 will be shown for the first time in NYC due to the partnership betweenThe Met .and Archbishopric of Olomouc, Czech Republic.
This exhibition addresses a subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. Beginning with the Renaissance masters, this scholarly and innovative exhibition examines the term "unfinished" in its broadest possible sense, including works left incomplete by their makers, which often give insight into the process of their creation, but also those that partake of a non finito—intentionally unfinished—aesthetic that embraces the unresolved and open-ended. Some of history's greatest artists explored such an aesthetic, among them Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cézanne.
The unfinished has been taken in entirely new directions by modern and contemporary artists, among them Janine Antoni, Lygia Clark, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Rauschenberg, who alternately blurred the distinction between making and un-making, extended the boundaries of art into both space and time, and recruited viewers to complete the objects they had begun.
Comprising 197
works dating from the Renaissance to the present—approximately forty percent of
which are drawn from the Museum's own collection, enhanced by major national
and international loans—this exhibition demonstrates the Met's unique capacity
to mine its rich collection and scholarly resources to present modern and
contemporary art within a deep historical context.
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The Met Breuer, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Venue:
The Met Breuer, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Date
From: Mar 18, 2016
To:
Sep 3, 2016
Organizer:
Czech Center is a coorganizer of the event