2014 Exhibition Calendar Current as of December 2013. Information is subject to change. For a listing of exhibitions and installations, please visit www.lacma.org Calder and Abstraction: From Fútbol: The Beautiful Game Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of Joseon Avant-Garde to Iconic Korea, 1392-1910 UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS Kaz Oshiro: Chasing Ghosts At Charles White Elementary School Gallery January 24–June 6, 2014 As part of the museum’s ongoing engagement with the community, LACMA presents Kaz Oshiro: Chasing Ghosts. Installed at LACMA’s satellite gallery within Charles White Elementary School, the exhibition juxtaposes objects Oshiro selected from the museum's collection, new work based on his interactions at the school, and student art. Oshiro is best known for creating high fidelity sculptures of everyday objects—such as microwaves, dumpsters, and file cabinets. By using the materials of painting (paint, canvas, stretcher bars) to fabricate sculpture, Oshiro’s work transcends tromp l'oeil trickery and blurs the very distinctions between the two media. Oshiro was born in Okinawa, Japan and is based in Los Angeles. Location: Charles White Elementary School is located at 2401 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90057 Curator: Sarah Jesse, Education, LACMA; Nancy Meyer, Contemporary Art, LACMA Credit: This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This exhibition is made possible through the Anna H. Bing Children's Art Education Fund. Education programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are supported in part by the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, the Margaret A. Cargill Arts Education Endowment, and Rx for Reading. Page 1 Fútbol: The Beautiful Game February 2-July 20, 2014 Fútbol: The Beautiful Game examines the subject of football (or soccer, as it is known in the United States)—nicknamed by one sports commentator The Beautiful Game— and its interactions with societies around the world. As a subject, football touches on issues of nationalism and identity, globalism and mass spectacle, as well as the common human experience shared by spectators from many cultures. Celebrating the sport on the eve of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the exhibition includes approximately thirty artists from around the world, working in video, photography, painting, and sculpture. Two room-sized video installations—Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, by the artists Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon, and Volta by Stephen Dean—anchor the exhibition. Other works by artists including Miguel Calderon (whose 2004 video Mexico v. Brasil represents a 17-0 victory for Mexico), Robin Rhode, Kehinde Wiley, and Andy Warhol provide a sense of the miraculous possibilities of the sport as universal conversation piece. Curator: Franklin Sirmans, Contemporary Art, LACMA Credit: This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Support is provided by Mehran and Laila Taslimi, with additional funding from the Wallis Annenberg Director’s Endowment Fund. Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible March 30-June 29, 2014 A pioneer of the Light and Space movement, Helen Pashgian is creating her first large- scale sculptural installation to be exhibited at LACMA. Pashgian (born Pasadena, 1934) was one of a group of Los Angeles-area artists in the late 1960s who recognized that new materials being used both by local industries (aerospace and others) and the local leisure culture (surfboards and custom cars) could also be used by artists—materials including fiberglass, polyester resin, plastics, and coated glass. In the past few years, Pashgian created a number of individual columnar sculptures out of shaped sheet acrylic in various colors including white. Hieratic in their evident simplicity—though including various internal forms that reveal themselves on close inspection—these columnar sculptures seems to hover above the floor as they focus, reflect, and refract light. For LACMA, she is creating an installation of a dozen such sculptures, all white, that will be simultaneously quiet, elegant, mysterious, and awe- inspiring. Curator: Carol Eliel, Modern Art, LACMA Credit: This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Chinese Paintings from Japanese Collections May 11-July 6, 2014 Chinese Paintings from Japanese Collections highlights paintings collected in Japan between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. The exhibition explores the historical role of Japan in collecting and preserving Chinese paintings over a period of five Page 2 centuries, and specifically the social and art historical contexts of three key phases in the collecting of Chinese paintings in Japan: the Kamakura & Muromachi periods, the Edo period, and the Taishô, and early Shôwa periods. In addition, the exhibition explores the role of Japan in preserving a large part of China’s cultural and artistic heritage, aspects of Japanese identity that derive from traditional Chinese culture (e.g., paintings as embodiments of Chinese cosmology, historiography, mythology, and religion), and the use of Chinese paintings as models for key traditions of Japanese painting. Curator: Stephen Little, Chinese and Korean Art, LACMA Credit: This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was made possible in part by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. LACMA is grateful for the special cooperation of the Tokyo National Museum. Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky June 8-September 14, 2014 Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky demonstrates the rich dimensions of the exchange between French and German artists during the decade prior to the First World War It will feature Post-Impressionist, Fauvist, and Cubist paintings that the Expressionists were able to see in landmark exhibitions and collections in Germany and during their travels to Paris, where they frequented avant garde milieus such as the Café du Dôme and Matisse’s academy. The original dialogue between French artists and the Expressionists of the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups are explored in a careful selection of paintings and works on paper. Drawing on new scholarship, the exhibition will explore specific connections among artists ranging from Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Signac, and Matisse to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky and will contribute to a new understanding of how influence functions in the visual arts generally. It will be accompanied by a well- illustrated scholarly catalogue published in separate German, English and French editions. Curator: Timothy O. Benson, Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, LACMA Credit: This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Kunsthaus Zürich in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Funding was provided by Violet Spitzer-Lucas and the Spitzer Family Foundation, with additional support by the Wallis Annenberg Director's Endowment Fund. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Itinerary: Kunsthaus Zürich (February 7-May 11, 2014); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (October 6, 2014-January 25, 2015) Page 3 John Altoon June 8-September 14, 2014 John Altoon is the first major retrospective devoted to this under-known yet influential artist whose brief career unfolded largely in Southern California from the mid-1950s until his unexpected death in 1969 at age forty-three. The exhibition considers Altoon’s career through both paintings and drawings—which form an integral part of his practice—and includes approximately seventy works. In contrast to earlier, smaller shows that examined Altoon in the context of Abstract Expressionism, this retrospective not only considers Altoon’s relationship to his predecessors and his peers but also investigates his ongoing influence on and relationship to later generations of artists. Curator: Carol Eliel, Modern Art, LACMA Credit: This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. The exhibition was supported in part by the Fellows of Contemporary Art and the Kimmel Family. Additional support was provided by the Clinton Hill/Allen Tran Foundation. Itinerary: Rose Art Museum (October 8-December 21, 2014) Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392- 1910 June 29-September 28, 2014 This exhibition, organized by the National Museum of Korea (NMK) in Seoul, Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), presents a broad survey of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. Treasures from Korea presents a comprehensive survey of Joseon Dynasty artistic culture, including secular and religious (Buddhist and shamanistic) painting and calligraphy. The show includes arts in many media, drawn mainly from the NMK collection but also supplemented from public and private collections in Korea and the United States. The exhibition comprises between 120-150 works, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, lacquer, furniture, and textiles. Curator: Virginia Moon, Chinese and Korean Art, LACMA Credit: The exhibition is organized by the National Museum of Korea, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and the Korea Foundation. Transportation assistance was provided by Korean Air. Itinerary: Philadelphia Museum of Art (March 2-May 26, 2014); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (November 2, 2014-January 11, 2015) Kimono for a Modern Age, 1900 – 1960 July 5-October 19, 2014 Kimono for a Modern Age features more than thirty dazzling kimono from LACMA’s permanent collection on display for the first time in the Pavilion for Japanese Art. Cross-cultural enrichment of art, design, fashion, and technology between Japan and the West began during the Meiji period (1868 – 1912).