RITA McBRIDE
Previously
June 13 through September 5, 2010
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Preview: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Introduction by Dieter Schwarz and Rita McBride
In recent years, various works by Rita McBride have been acquired for the collection, since, in the domain of new sculpture, she represents her own independent position. The artist, born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1960, has been teaching for several years at the State Academy of Art Düsseldorf. However, she is not bound to this one location as she travels constantly across the world to locations to her works are exhibited, to hold lectures and to carry out various other commitments. McBride conceives of sculpture in the light of the language of forms as elaborated in architecture and design. It is this frequently overlooked subtext of such conceptions which she articulates in her works – as, for instance, the interplay, or rather contradiction between function and representation. Accordingly, context, which forms an integral aspect in the interpretation of her works, together with the sounding out of changing environments constitute a decisive element of her exhibition design. For the Winterthur project she will be drawing on plans by Le Corbusier who, for the artist, represents a key figure in modernity. New works, which ironically present themselves as decorative objects, pursue these references. They comprise the framework for McBride’s earlier work taken both from the Museum’s collection and from private collections, which will not be however shown within the framework of a retrospective, but rather in a newly created situation.