Daria Martin "Minotaur"
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
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Minotaur is a new film installation created by Daria Martin. It depicts a duet choreographed by the legendary dance and movement pioneer Anna Halprin based on the 1886 sculpture Minotaur by artist Auguste Rodin. Martin has carefully edited the film to juxtapose the movements of the two dancers with close-up views of Rodin's sculpture, images of the sculpture in a book, views of the wooded exterior of Halprin's Northern California studio where the dance takes place, and shots of Halprin herself. In doing so, Martin creates a complex and multilayered synthesis of various art forms--film, dance, and sculpture--while simultaneously meditating on the process through which art is made, and the shifting sexual dynamics between men and women as embodied in both the sculpture and Halprin's performative re-imagination of it. This project was curated by Dominic Molon, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and organized at the New Museum by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator.
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from January 28, 2009 to March 22, 2009