Some of my absolute favourites are represented at the MoMa 'Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today' Exhibition running March 2–May 12, 2008 at the sixth floor Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery.
Ellsworth Kelly being one of my all time fave painters (along with having the best no-nonsens titels for his work such as "diagonal line", "red square" and his piece de resistance: "green") is represented, along with Warhol, Jasper Johns, Damien Hirst, Bas Jan Alder (also one of my favourites, although I kinda feel he is a little bit out of his element with this theme..) and Jim Lambie who I never saw stuff by before, but I was really impressed by his floor installations.
The MoMa presentations reads something like this:
Color Chart celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a mass-produced and standardized commercial product. The Romantic quest for personal expression instead became Andy Warhol's "I want to be a machine;" the artistry of mixing pigments was eclipsed by Frank Stella's "Straight out of the can; it can't get better than that." Color Chart is the first major exhibition devoted to this pivotal transformation, featuring work by some forty artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst.
Being the big budget apoeration they are, a very nice and expensive looking Flash site introducing the exhibition has been produced and can be viewed here.
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