Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection
listen darling...
the world is yours
an exhibition by guest curator
Lisa Philips, Director of the New Museum, New York
October 11, 2008- August 30, 2009
The Ellipse FOUNDATION Contemporary Art Collection is pleased to announce its new exhibition, Listen Darling ... The World is Yours, a selection of works from the Collection, including unssen works and new acquistions, by guest curator Lisa Phillips, Director or the New Museum, New York.
Listen Darling... The World is Yours brings together the wokr of over forty artists who together demonstrate the sweeping changes in the psycho-sexcual dynamics of culture, over the past thirty years. The exhibition, wich revolves around several major works by Louise Bourgeois, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, and Shirin Neshat, among othes, looks at how women see women, women see men, men see women and men see men, often through direct confrontation with sexuality and sexual politics. Listen Darling... reveals the strong infiltration of the woman's voice in the art and culture of our time, as well as gay artists whose sexual identity is a deliberate part of their artistic statement.
The holdings of the Ellipse foundation are particularly rich in this area which represents one of the most significant developments in contemporary art and soctety in recent times, and one that will surely continue to define the future.