Untitled (Marilyn), 2015
Printed images on aluminum, fabric
As part of a work created specially for Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, Gonzalez-Foerster appears as Marilyn Monroe in the famous skinny dip scene from her unfinished last movie, Something’s Got to Give (1962), with this connecting us back to the early modern days of the museum and the mid-sixties when Gonzalez-Foerster was born.
Untitled, 1987/2015 (foreground right)
Tennis balls and glass fire protection
In a post-Duchampian act, this was less intended to elevate the everyday but rather to question the hierarchical distinction between high and low. The slightly curved transparent screen on which sides bright tennis balls are spread evoke the artist’s ongoing concern with sites of leisure and play.
Photo © Pat Kilgore