Sentences with phrase «lost ephemeral works»

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To stage a retrospective of the works of Merce Cunningham is to take up two of the most challenging concerns of museum display: How to exhibit the ephemeral, and how to manifest a vast network of artistic collaboration without losing focus on its central figure.

Paul Thek in Process evaluates the complex organizational and conceptual task of the installation's eventual realization, and offers an exhibition history written with a view from the inside, with particular attention paid to the status of the ephemeral objects that remain as contingent representatives of the lost work.

Paul Thek was a practicing Catholic and renegade homosexual, a lover of the photographer Peter Hujar and companion to Susan Sontag (who dedicated «Against Interpretation» to Thek), a sculptor and creator of immersive environments so devoted to the ephemeral in art that his major works were lost and his reputation eclipsed within his lifetime.