Felix Gonzales-Torres
A new exhibit from MOMA's print collection investigates (and broadens) the meaning of the term 'print'
"The thing is to think about print not as a mode of fabrication ... but as a mode of distribution," said curator Christophe Cherix when we spoke prior to the show's opening: in a world of ever-accelerating social and technological change, he pointed out, print can be understood to mean any system that diffuses ideas across the cultural landscape. Many of the objects in the show present not as printed pages or artist prints, but as paintings or sculpture or some other iteration, clinging to “print-ness” only by way of their means of production or theoretical conceit. More
