SUPRASENSORIAL: EXPERIMENTS IN LIGHT, COLOR, AND SPACE

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, is the first museum exhibition to situate pioneering Latin American artists among the international canon of those working with light and space. The exhibition presents Latin America as the source of new ideas about the nature and function of art through the re-creation of important large scale installations by five highly regarded and influential artists: Carlos Cruz Diez, Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida, and Jesús Rafael Soto. The exhibition aims to illuminate the field by expanding the dialogue surrounding light-and-space practices in contemporary visual art beyond the California tradition of the late '60s and '70s, to include pivotal Latin American impulses expressed more than a decade earlier.

Organized by MOCA Senior Curator Alma Ruiz,Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Spacewill be presented from December 12, 2010, through February 27, 2011, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, followed by a tour to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington D.C from June 23-September 11, 2011.