Two Debuts in New Museum

This summer season New York’s only museum exclusively devoted to contemporary art will bring the first US exhibition of John Akomfrah and NY’s first survey of Thomas Bayrle. 

On view from June 20th through September 2nd, John Akomfrah: Signs of Empire is the first survey exhibition in the U.S. of the prominent British artist. Since the early 1980s, Akomfrah put the contemporary British society in the new light through his works that reflected on the culture of the black diaspora. The artist, film director, and writer started his career as part of Black Audio Film Collective, and gradually expanded his focus beyond Britain to wider historical context of colonialism legacy. In the past several years, his multichannel video works have evolved into ambitious, large-scale installations shown in museums around the world.

Another retrospective to await this summer season in the New Museum is an exhibition of the works of Thomas Bayrle, an important German artist, who has received belated recognition for his influential works. The exhibition, on view at the same time as John Akomfrah retrospective, will present 115 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, wallpapers and prints, early computer-based art, videos, and 16mm films.

今年夏天，纽约的唯一一家专门研究当代艺术的博物馆将首次展出约翰·阿克姆弗拉和托马斯·拜尔勒对纽约的第一份的调查展，这也是他首次参加美国的展览。

从6月20日到9月2日，约翰·阿克姆弗拉：帝国的迹象是英国著名艺术家首次在美国进行调查展览。自20世纪80年代初以来，阿克姆拉通过其反映黑人移民文化的作品，将当代英国社会置于新的视野中。这位艺术家、电影导演和作家从黑人音频电影音频开始了他的职业生涯，并逐渐将他的注意力从英国扩展到殖民主义遗产的更广泛的历史背景。在过去的几年里，他的多声道视频作品已经发展成为世界上博物馆中的宏大的大规模设备。

另一个在新博物馆等待夏季的回顾展是德国重要艺术家托马斯·拜尔勒的作品展。拜尔勒因其有影响力的作品而获得迟到的认可。这次展览将与约翰·阿库姆弗拉的回顾展同时展出115件作品，包括绘画、雕塑、素描、壁纸和版画、早期的计算机艺术、视频和16毫米电影。