Dana Schutz : Le Monde Visible

Exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 6 October 2023 - 11 February 2024

Dana Schutz (1976-), a virtuoso of colour known for the narrative richness of her paintings and drawings, paints the links that unite us and the barriers that separate us. Her art offers a penetrating vision of a transitory and uncertain world; the post-apocalyptic atmosphere that emerges belongs to a rich tradition, in which the artist responds to the works of Goya, Manet, Picasso and Philip Guston.
The American artist also works in bronze in the manner of her predecessors as a painter-sculptor.

This catalogue of the first major exhibition to be held in France presents some forty paintings, some of them very large, produced over the last twenty years, around twenty drawings and engravings, and six sculptures, several of which have never before been shown to the public. Through these representations of the unrepresentable, she evokes the obsolescence of a sick world, the vanity of contemporary mythologies, and above all the incommunicability between human beings.