Rose Art Museum will be open year-round, starting this summer

Maya Watanabe,Liminal (2019). Still from video.Courtesy of 80m2 Livia Benavides gallery and Tegenboshvanbreden gallery.Produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation and supported by Mondriaan Fonds.

The Rose Art Museum will be open year-round, starting this summer with a season headlined by the first U.S. solo museum presentation of emerging Peruvian artist Maya Watanabe and “Into Form,” an exhibition featuring rarely seen works and recent additions to the Rose’s post-war and contemporary holdings.
 
These exhibitions mark the first time in recent history the Rose will have work on view during the summer months. Additionally, the Rose will now be open for major holidays.
 
“We want to serve as a local anchor where modern and contemporary art, as well as open dialogues about creativity and the issues of our time, are always available,” said Luis A. Croquer, the Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose. “One way in which we can do this is being accessible year-round, so that no matter the date, there is something stimulating and expansive on view at the Rose. We want to make sure our surrounding community knows we are here for them as a major artistic and cultural resource.”
 
Here is a look at the exhibitions that will be on display this summer:

Maya Watanabe: Liminal
June 20, 2019 to August 25, 2019
 
Informed by the historical and political context of her home country, Peru, Maya Watanabe (b. Lima, 1983) investigates the borders and limits of representation and the ambiguity that characterizes transitional and fluid states. In her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Watanabe presents the North American premiere of her most recent work, “Liminal” (2019), which she filmed at the excavations of mass graves for victims of Peru’s two-decade-long internal armed conflict. A widespread and prolonged era of violence, the 1980s through the late 1990s were defined by atrocities perpetrated both by the insurgent guerrilla groups Sendero Luminoso (or, Shining Path) and Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru, and by military forces of the retaliating Peruvian government. 
 
In “Liminal’s” hour-long loop, Watanabe’s camera pans across terrain, tightly-framed and textured layers shifting in and out of focus. Gaining sharpness, elements emerge from this field of earth, roots, and rocks, becoming discernable as shards of bone, teeth, and the frayed edges of clothing. Archeological markers and measuring tools point towards their uncovering, though Watanabe’s images blur distinctions between these remains and the landscape within which they are set. While of the body, Watanabe portrays these elements in transition, a reflection of their liminal status. Awaiting forensic identification, they are remains on the threshold of subjecthood, suspended between the status of “missing person” and an officially declared death. 
 
“Liminal” is curated by Caitlin Julia Rubin, Assistant Curator.
 
Into Form: Selections from the Rose collection, 1957-2018
June 20, 2019 to January 5, 2020
 
Drawn from the museum’s exceptional postwar holdings, Into Form examines the ways in which artists from the late 1950s to the present have sought to break boundaries by questioning representation and notions of medium specificity. 
 
Since its inception, the Rose Art Museum has served, with prescience, as a platform and repository for the art and ideas of our time. Over almost six decades, the museum has collected works by artists, often early in their careers, who have transformed art practices in radical and diverse ways. While American art is a well-recognized strength of the Rose’s permanent collection, the international and multidisciplinary scope of the museum’s holdings—a testament to both curatorial zeal and the visionary donor base that has helped to establish the museum—is lesser known.
 
Into Form brings together thirty-four works, created by a multi-generational group of artists, which investigate hybridity and challenge rigid notions of representation. A tension between organic and geometric abstraction runs throughout the exhibition, showing long-standing concerns to connect artistic practice to the body and to natural phenomena, as well as a desire to distill forms to their most essential expression. 
 
The selection includes works on paper, painting, sculpture, and video, demonstrating the depth and breadth of the Rose’s permanent collection.
 
Permanent collection artists on view:
Anni Albers, Richard Anuskiewicz, Ralph Coburn, Haris Epaminonda, Sam Francis, Jenny Holzer, Tishan Hsu, Alex Hubbard, Jasper Johns, Julio Le Parc, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Dianna Molzan, Kenneth Noland, Joe Overstreet, Daniel Pflumm, Leon Polk Smith, Zilia Sanchez, Jesus Rafael Soto, Cy Twombly, and Pieter Vermeersch.
 
“Into Form” is curated by Luis A. Croquer, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator.

The Rose Art Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is free and open to the public.