Mircea Cantor / Ansel Adams
2 April to 1 June - FREE ADMISSION
ENCOUNTERS: KATIE PATERSON
2 APRIL TO 1 JUNE - FREE ADMISSION
THREE NEW EXHIBITIONS
Modern Art Oxford presents three new exhibitions this spring. Mircea Cantor is one of Europe's most exciting young artists. The Need for Uncertainty is a major new body of work commissioned specially for our Upper Gallery.
Alongside Cantor's installation, we present an exhibition of photographs spanning 50 years by the 20th-century American photographer Ansel Adams.
In our Lower Gallery, rising star Katie Paterson transports us to Iceland and to the moon and back, presenting recent work as part of our Encounters series.
MIRCEA CANTOR: THE NEED FOR UNCERTAINTY
Mircea Cantor’s videos and mixed media installations address the notion of displacement and parallel realities.
Cantor presents a stunning new sculptural installation in Modern Art Oxford’s Upper Gallery exploring the theme of uncertainty. Wood carvings in a forest and a flying carpet hand-woven with figures of angels and aeroplanes are some of the elements used by Cantor to prompt reflections on worlds within worlds and the relative notion of freedom and its limitations.
The exhibition is the first in an ambitious new series of commissions produced in collaboration with Arnolfini, Bristol and Camden Arts Centre, London.
Born in 1977 in Oradea, Romania, Mircea Cantor lives and works in Paris and Cluj, Romania.
Upper Gallery
ANSEL ADAMS
Photographs
‘Ansel Adams discovered that the natural world is infinitely varied in aspect, constantly potential, evanescent; that its grand vistas and its microcosms are never twice the same; that the landscape is not only a place but an event’ John Szarkowski
An exhibition of more than seventy photographs, hand-printed and selected by the American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams (1902–1984). Spanning a period of fifty years, from the 1920s to the 1970s, this timely exhibition includes Adams’ photographs of the magnificent landscapes for which he is most celebrated, from the soaring monoliths of Yosemite National Park to the lakes and mountains of Alaska.
Ansel Adams: Photographs is organised by Modern Art Oxford. All works are from the collection of Anne Adams Helms. The exhibition tours to the New Art Gallery, Walsall and Kunstmuseum, Bergen.
John Piper and Middle Galleries