Wexner Center for the Arts: Visit: Spring 2011 Exhibitions

Trio of intriguing & provocative exhibitions at Wex this spring

For immediate release: March 22, 2011

Columbus, OH—The Wexner Center is pleased to host a suite of exhibitions this spring and summer, featuring Double Sexus: Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois, flanked by two individual artist presentations: Human Behavior: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg, a survey of recent work in clay animation and sculpture, and Pipilotti Rist: The Tender Room, featuring a new multimedia installation created for the Wex. The exhibitions will be on view March 26–July 31, 2011.

“Anchored by Double Sexus, this suite of exhibitions was consciously constructed to be at once illuminating and provocative, moving and unsettling,” notes Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin. “Brilliantly juxtaposing the work of Louise Bourgeois and Hans Bellmer, the exhibition reveals not only the remarkable affinities between them, but the exceptional audacity with which they pursued their investigation of the body as locus for all manner of physical and psychological manipulation.”

Geldin adds, "Our presentation of Double Sexus also serves as a timely tribute to 1999 Wexner Prize recipient Louise Bourgeois, who died last year. And to demonstrate the powerful ongoing legacy of her work—in particular among younger women artists—the center invited two international talents to exhibit alongside her. Coming of age more than two generations after Bourgeois, both Nathalie Djurberg and Pipilotti Rist are known to mine similar veins of gender and sexual politics, among other highly charged social topics."

Double Sexus and Human Behavior are recommended for mature audiences.

Two video exhibitions will be installed in the lower lobby in succession: Three works from Candice Breitz's series Factum, now on view through April 17, and Rineke Dijkstra's Annemiek, opening April 20. In addition, Erwin Redl's outdoor light installation FETCH has been extended through May 30.