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Exploring the power of kineticism in art and featuring 80 works drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, Movement: The Legacy of Kineticism showcases the work of artists from three historical eras that utilize optical effects or mechanical or manipulable parts to engage the viewer physically or perceptually.

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Vagalume (Firefly) 2010 Valeska Soares Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1957; active in São Paulo, Brazil Mixed media

An interactive work that welcomes and draws you into the exhibition...Soares’s Vagalume invites viewers to pull chains, turning lightbulbs on or off. The title of this work means Firefly.

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Movement has been a labor of love, executed over years of planning and a lively month of install. It is a celebration of the amazing collection we have at the DMA, which allows me to draw from classic examples of historic modernism, like Mondrian and Malevich, “op” art by Bridget Riley and Alejandro Otero, and immersive contemporary installations, like those by Olafur Eliasson and Valeska Soares, that push the boundaries of artmaking today. From a personal note, this show allowed me to draw on my specialization of Latin American art of the twentieth century to celebrate the contributions of art from that region to kineticism. We hope the show moves you as much as it moves us!

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This exhibition features art from the DMA’s collection from the early 20th century to the present that demonstrates an interest in movement, either real or implied. This interest was born of a desire by artists and patrons to explore the wider implications of art, beyond aesthetic appeal, in earlier movements such as Constructivism from Russia and De Stijl from the Netherlands. These artists often investigated the utility of art in daily life through design, architecture, and typography, and they chose abstraction over figurative representation. At midcentury, artists were attracted to the utopian goals of the avant-garde, especially as the European economy recovered from World War II and industrialization intensified in the Americas, which allowed for technological advancement with far-reaching impact. In the US, Europe, and Venezuela, kinetic and “Op” artists explicitly incorporated mechanical movement or optical effects. Elsewhere in Latin America, especially Brazil and Argentina, artists associated with those movements emphasized spectator participation through direct manipulation of the object by the viewer, or the movement of the viewer through a sensorial environment. The contemporary artists whose works are on view demonstrate the legacy of these earlier movements through their play on the relationship between the mechanical and the organic, the digital and the natural. In doing so, they empower you, the viewer, to engage with their work, either physically or perceptually. Hover over or click on (mobile) the map to see some of the global regions where the Movement artists originated; many of them were active in more than one geographic region, and in some cases, permanently moved from their countries of origin.

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RUSSIA (Europe & Asia)

Naum Gabo Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova Vladimir Mayakovsky (Georgia, former Russian Empire) Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin El Lissitzky

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LATIN AMERICA

Valeska Soares Kazuya Sakai Geraldo de Barros Lygia Clark Hélio Oiticica Marco Maggi Maria Helena Vieira da Silva Rhod Rothfuss Camelo Arden Quin Tomás Saraceno

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Toni LaSelle George Rickey Carlotta M. Corpron Trisha Donnelly Charles Ray I. Rice Pereira Charles Joseph Biederman Ricci Albenda

KINETICISM, THE ARTISTS, AND THE GLOBAL CONNECTION

AUSTRALIA

Frank Bauer born in Germany; practiced in Adelaide

Julian Stanczak (POLAND) György Kepes (HUNGARY) Bridget Riley (UK) Piet Mondrian (NETHERLANDS) Josef Albers (GERMANY) Olafur Eliasson (DENMARK) Giampaolo Babetto (ITALY) Frank Bauer (GERMANY) Friedrich Becker (GERMANY) Anton Cepka (SLOVAKIA) Vratislav Novák (CZECH REPUBLIC) Francesco Pavan (ITALY) Peter Skubic (SERBIA) Naum Slutzky (UKRAINE) Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (UKRAINE)

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MOVEMENT INSTALLATION: A GLIMPSE BEHIND THE SCENES

of spider silk used to create "Sounding the Air" by Tomás Saraceno

hours spent on the "Vagalume" prep & install

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Aluminum panels used for the lighting installation of "Vagalume"

light bulbs, pull strings and sockets used in "Vagalume" ("Firefly")

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Works of art in "Movement: The Legacy of Kineticism" exhibition

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"Movement" installation: by the numbers

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