The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver's 'Movements Toward Freedom' exhibition examines the power, possibility, and vulnerability of bodily movement in contemporary life. Featuring 21 artists, the show utilizes a variety of mediums, including paintings, sculptures, videos, and photographs, to showcase how movement is used to express identity, celebrate freedoms, and call for social change. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the art through tactile experiences and participate in the museum's programming.
Karlo Andrei Ibarra’s “Contensiones,” applies lines uttered by world leaders during times of conflict to pastel-colored yoga mats. I sometimes describe art exhibition s using the familiar phrase “greater than the sum of their parts.” It is a tidy way of saying that, while each of the objects in a show might not be a star attraction, they can add up to a big idea the curator wants to illustrate.
Notably, it invites a lot of tactile interaction between the pieces on display and the visitors who come to see them. That can come in the form of simply being able to sit or walk on precious objects that one normally expects to be off limits in an art museum, to taking part in the wide-ranging programming that the MCA will produce during the run of the show.
With so many artists, activities and ideas floating around the outing, it can be difficult to pull curator Lynch’s notions together in a cohesive way. The idea is broad, and a bit vague, to start with, and the multitude of perspectives on the topic splay it further rather than coming together into something harmonic and revelatory. But it is hard to fault any exhibition that tries so hard to present something so novel, or any museum that gives its curators room to experiment.
Quevedo’s large-scale, sports-inspired piece — made from reclaimed wood sourced from a professional basketball court — is something merry to behold as well. It has the bearing of a real gymnasium, but the artist has rearranged the traditional foul lines painted on the floor into abstract patterns meant to invite museum visitors “to trace the lines with their bodies, almost like a choreography.
And within that is an ambitious attempt to make us feel more keenly about our bodies, and the way we comport ourselves and the power that exists, for everyone, in everyday movement. That awareness comes in pieces — in the parts, if not the whole — but it is there to be felt.
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