Works from the Collection: Rubell Museum, Miami, US
Past gallery exhibitions exhibition
Overview
Installation view, Hernan Bas, Works from the Rubell Collection, Rubell Museum of Art, Miami, US, 2007
TIME presents a selection of historical and contemporary artworks, objects and artists’ projects that engage with ideas of time. Throughout history, philosophers and scientists have advanced new – sometimes conflicting – ideas regarding the nature and perception of time. Current thought on the subject based upon quantum physics is extremely complex. Nevertheless, our finite lifespan seems to have endowed us with an intuition of time, even if we have not considered its precise character.
The concept of time enables us to live with a sense of order and regularity; to conceive of duration; past, present and future; and to maintain a sense of our place within this apparent continuum.
This exhibition explores the subject of time through a number of different means. It includes apparatus for measuring time in the form of several historical decorative clocks, presented alongside Torsten Lauschmann’s artwork, an idiosyncratic hand-powered ‘digital’ clock. Two artists’ projects explore the transformative nature of time, Hernan Bas’s A Queer and Curious Cabinet and Manny Prieres’s It was a Pleasure to Burn. Based upon historical cabinets of curiosities, Bas has created a cabinet room to display intriguing objects that he has collected over a number of years. Some of these artifacts would once have been quite common, but have become rare curios over the passage of time. Prieres’s work also engages with time’s transformative nature. By presenting a series of covers of controversial and censored books, Prieres demonstrates how work that was once judged as ‘dangerous’ may be interpreted differently by later generations.
Installation Views
Installation view, Hernan Bas, Works from the Rubell Collection, Rubell Museum of Art, Miami, US, 2007
