Private Eyes

The exhibition presents paintings, drawings, photos and sculpture from the 1960s up until today, by prominent artists such as Louise Borgeouis, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Nan Goldin, Matthew Barney, Robert Rauschenberg and Christopher Wool.

Postmodernism is neither a movement nor a direction of style, but rather a collective designation for art during a time marked by remarkable individual and economic freedom and a subsequent eruption of diversity. Art became a depiction of a world undergoing constant changes.

This exhibition takes the works of a number of key American artists to explore postmodernism’s multifaceted visual universe. Any myth of art as an absolute and true voice is dispelled here. Concepts such as originality and continuity, as essential as they are to the history of Western art, simply lose their meaning.  

This is also a time when we see a clear emergence of ‘new’ voices, most notably female artists and artists with minority backgrounds. Many of artists use their own lives and personal experiences explicitly. But they do so without buttressing the myth of the artistic genius that so often prevailed in modernism. By making use of themselves and their personal experiences, artists reflect the society of which they were a part of.