Exhibition: Vision/Revision: Contemporary Art from the Harn Collection

This exhibition highlights the mutable relationships among art, artists and viewers. While vision implies a unique and original insight, revision suggests the transformation and proliferation of meanings. Vision points to the future while revision implies a cyclical relationship between the past and present and between production and reception. Through the work of 26 international artists, Vision/Revision traces the multiple layers of meaning that can be created in response to a work of art. Concerned with historical positioning and repositioning, artists like Larry Rivers reinterpret the past in terms of the present. In another vein, artists such as El Anatsui and Zwelethu Mthethwa recycle cultural images and materials to create new meanings. Other artists such as Andy Warhol extend the idea of revision to blur the boundaries between original and copy. Warhol appropriates a news image of Marilyn Monroe to create a repetitive series of multi-colored silk-screens. Celeste Roberge emulates work created by iconic artists and Yayoi Kusama reworks the paintings of her early years. Additional artists in the exhibition include Antoni Tàpies, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Red Grooms, William Kentridge and Liza May Post, among others.