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Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting

September 9, 2018 – October 30, 2019

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Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Installation View of Remember to React: 60 years of Collecting at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Steven Brooke.
Jenny Holzer The Survival Series: Remember to react, 1984 Cast aluminum, ed. 8/10 NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; purchased with funds provided by Michael and Diane Bienes by exchange, 2018.5 © 2018 Jenny Holzer / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Julian Schnabel Portrait of Olatz Schnabel, 1997 Oil and resin on canvas 90 x 84 inches NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Private Collection of Olatz Schnabel, 2015.7 Copyright Julian Schnabel Studio
Zanele Muholi Xiniwe II at Cassilhaus, North Carolina, 2016 Gelatin silver print 80 x 55.5cm NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; purchased with funds provided by Michael and Diane Bienes by exchange © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York
Zanele Muholi Bester VII, Newington Green, London, 2017 Gelatin silver print 80 x 56.5cm NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; purchased with funds provided by Michael and Diane Bienes by exchange © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York
Unidentified Artist Helmet Mask of the Women's Bundu or Santa Society, n.d. Wood 14 1/2 x 8 x 10 1/2 in. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Morris and Sylvia Ivanhoe A2002.1.9
Unidentified Abua Igbo Artist Head Crest with Aquatic Spirit, 20th century Wood, fiber, glass 13 x 28 ½ x 9 ¼ in. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Dr. and Mrs. E. Zimmerman, A75..28
Glenn Ligon Untitled (I live on my shadow), 2009 Neon, glass, paint NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; purchased with funds provided by Michael and Diane Bienes by exchange, 2018.4 © Glenn Ligon; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Photography by Joshua White
Theaster Gates Reflections Piece, 2016 Clay NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; purchased with funds provided by Michael and Diane Bienes by exchange, 2018.3 © Theater Gates, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Photography by Silvia Ros
Zanele Muholi Thuleleni, Bijlmer, Amsterdam, from the Somnyama Ngonyama series, 2017 Gelatin silver print NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; purchased with funds provided by Michael and Diane Bienes by exchange, 2018.2 © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York
Serge Vandercam L’Echo, 1970 Gouache on paper 43 ½ x 28 ½ in. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; Cobra Collection; gift from the collection of Stéphane Janssen, AZ, 2018.1 © Estate of Serge Vandercam
Elaine de Kooning Double Portrait of Selima Stavola
Philip Guston Afloat, 1975 Oil on canvas 68 x 80 in. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Musa Guston, 92.21 © The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Elaine de Kooning, Juarez, 1959
Sam Gilliam Cordial I¸ 1972 Oil on canvas 76 x 73 inches NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hope, 73.18 Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting

Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting is the first comprehensive installation of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s collection. Presented on the occasion of the institution’s 60th anniversary, this exhibition occupies the Museum’s more than 28,000 square-feet of galleries and opened to the public in two phases on September 9, 2018 and November 18, 2018. The first floor exhibition will be on view through October 30, 2019.

Representing various periods and developments in the history of art, Remember to React also traces the collection’s growth from its origins to today. The exhibition is curated by NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater and its Sunny Kaufman Senior Curator Barbara Buhler Lynes, Ph.D, with consulting curators.

The exhibition takes its title from a recent acquisition to the collection of conceptual artist Jenny Holzer‘s 1984 Survival Series, a simple plaque embossed with the text “Remember to React.” Both a commentary on contemporary life and call for participation, Holzer uses the word “react” to prompt viewers into action. The exhibition similarly asks viewers to respond actively to the works on view as well as to the world around them.

Following the Museum’s establishment in 1958, its founders launched the institution’s collection with African, Native American and Oceanic traditional art as its core. Today, in addition to these areas, NSU Art Museum holds the largest U.S. collection of the post-World War II experimental Cobra group, an extensive collection of Latin American and Cuban art, and a concentration of modern and contemporary art that focuses on work by women and multi-cultural artists. Additionally, it houses the largest collection of works by the early American modernist William J. Glackens, a leader of the progressive Ashcan School, whose work will be presented, along with that of Pierre-Auguste Renoir in a concurrent exhibition William Glackens and Pierre-Auguste Renior: Affinities and Distinctions (October 21, 2018 – May 19, 2019).

The Museum’s collection is installed as its founders envisioned, as an interlocking narrative. It includes an extensive installation of the Museum’s traditional African art, and begins with a gallery devoted to the works by artists of the Mexican Revolution – including Frida Kahlo, Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and others – and a gallery focused on artists such as Asger Jorn and Henry Heerup who resisted the German military occupation of Denmark (1943 to 1945) and later formed the Cobra group with Karel Appel, Constant, and others as a reaction to the political and social world order that emerged after World War II. Also on view is a comprehensive installation of American and European geometric abstract artists (Charles Biederman, Anthony Hill, Louise Nevelson) and works by post-World War II Italian abstract artists (Agostino Bonalumi, Lucio Fontana, Mimmo Rotella) that are important links between abstract expressionism and minimalism and the revival of figurative art in the 1970s.

The exhibition presents abstract and Pop Art with works by William Copley, Elaine de Kooning, Sam Gilliam, Philip Guston, Robert Morris, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselman, as well as works representative of the current global art world inclusive of a variety of traditions by José Bedia, Anne Chu, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernández, Theaster Gates, Barbara Kruger, Mona Hatoum, Samson Kambalu, Glenn Ligon, Jonathan Meese, Ana Mendieta, Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson and Purvis Young, among others.

A new major installation by Johannesburg-based artist Serge Alain Nitegeka will be unveiled during the exhibition where it will join other site-specific installations that the Museum previously commissioned for the collection by Edouard Duval-Carrié, Arturo Herrera, Rosario Marquardt & Roberto Behar, and Jen Stark.

Sections of the exhibition will change over the course of the year with installations of other core holdings, to reveal the nuances of the interrelated and reactive narratives among the works in the Museum’s unique collection.

Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting is sponsored by the David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation and Funding Arts Broward.

Sponsored by Dr. David and Linda Frankel, David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation and Funding Arts Broward, Inc.

Exhibitions and programs at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale are made possible in part by a challenge grant from the David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation. Funding is also provided by Nova Southeastern University, Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council and Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. NSU Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

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Top Image: Jenny Holzer, The Survival Series: Remember to react, 1984, Cast aluminum, ed. 8/10; NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale; purchased with funds provided by Michael and Dianne Bienes by exchange, 2018.5 © 2018 Jenny Holzer / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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