Installation photograph, Eleanor Antin: Time's Arrow, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 12 - July 7, 2019, © Eleanor Antin, photo © Museum Associates/ LACMA
Eleanor Antin will debut CARVING: 45 Years Later (2017) in Time's Arrow, a major solo exhibition that will run from May 12 - July 7, 2019 at LACMA. The Art Institute of Chicago will present the exhibition August 17, 2019-January 5, 2020.
One of the most important feminist and Conceptual artists of her generation, Eleanor Antin (b. 1935) challenged definitions of sculpture, performance, self-portraiture, and documentation with her 1972 work CARVING: A Traditional Sculpture. In CARVING: 45 Years Later (2017), the artist again documented herself as she “carved” her body, producing 500 black-and-white photographs over the course of 100 days.
Eleanor Antin: Time’s Arrow brings together both CARVING series, a new self-portrait, and a related serial work from the 1970s, provoking reflection on discipline, vulnerability, and the passage of time.
One of the most important feminist and Conceptual artists of her generation, Eleanor Antin (b. 1935) challenged definitions of sculpture, performance, self-portraiture, and documentation with her 1972 work CARVING: A Traditional Sculpture. In CARVING: 45 Years Later (2017), the artist again documented herself as she “carved” her body, producing 500 black-and-white photographs over the course of 100 days.
Eleanor Antin: Time’s Arrow brings together both CARVING series, a new self-portrait, and a related serial work from the 1970s, provoking reflection on discipline, vulnerability, and the passage of time.
May 12–Jul 7, 2019
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Art of the Americas Building, Level 2
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
April 19, 2019
