
From the late 1970s until his untimely death in 1992 through AIDS-related complications, David Wojnarowicz (New Jersey, USA, 1954 — New York, USA, 1992) produced a body of work that was as conceptually rigorous as it was stylistically diverse. His artistic career fused a broad array of forms, mediums and devices, for instance the use of photography as a narrative tool; collage as a resource for critique and political statements, stressed through the poverty of the medium; painting adopted to explore different allegorical processes; and photomontage and text employed as an approach to the queer and identity politics that also shaped his role as an activist. Coming to prominence in the socially and culturally vibrant East Village scene in New York in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz’s work is also testament to the end of the art collectives forged in the preceding decades and defined by their members’ financial precariousness and their anti-establishment, collaborative and experimental spirit.
Exhibition´s details
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: 13 Julay – 30 September 2018
Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid: 29 May – 30 September 2019
Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg: 26 October, 2019 – 2 February 2020
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Current exhibitions
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6 February – 6 May 2019
H. C. Westermann
Goin’ Home
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5 December, 2018 - 25 November, 2019
The Poetics of Democracy
Images and Counter-Images from the Spanish Transition
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21 November 2018 – 22 April 2019
Lost, Loose and Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris 1944-1968
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16 November 2018 – 3 March 2019
Jaume Plensa
Invisibles
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31 October 2018 – 29 April 2019
Mapa Teatro
Of Lunatics, or Those Lacking Sanity
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17 October 2018 – 4 March 2019
Luis Camnitzer
Hospice of Failed Utopias
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9 October 2018 – 10 March 2019
Dierk Schmidt
Guilt and Debts
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From November 22, 2017
Telefónica Collection
Cubism(s) and Experiences of Modernity