Exhibition of Iconic ‘Fallen Paintings’ to Open at Worcester Art Museum
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
The exhibition will include one of Apfelbaum's now-iconic installations, Blow-Up (1997).
Apfelbaum' said, "Sculpture sits on the floor, but I wondered what it would mean to have a painting on the floor," she said. "It was a support that I thought had been ignored. And it can be an interesting place - a place that belongs to domesticity, the place where your dirty clothes go." Apfelbaum adopted the term "fallen paintings" as a way of talking about these works as hybrids, "poised between painting and sculpture; works not so much attempting to invent new categories, but working promiscuously and improperly - poaching - in fields seemingly already well defined."
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Founded in 1898, the Worcester Art Museum serves Worcester and the broader region. The Museum houses an encyclopedic collection of paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and new media. WAM's collection has historically been strongest in European and American art and, with recent acquisitions and donations like Veronese's Venus Disarming Cupid and the integration of the collection from the Higgins Armory Museum, it continues to grow in strength. Symbolized by the opening of the Salisbury Street doors in 2012, the Museum continues toward its goal of accessibility for all visitors.
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