"Forever Now "presents the work of 17 artists whose paintings
reflect a singular approach that characterizes our cultural moment
at the beginning of this new millennium--they refuse to allow us to
define, or even meter our time by them. This phenomenon was first
identified by the science fiction writer William Gibson, who used
the term "atemporality" to describe a cultural product that
paradoxically doesn't represent, through its style, its content or
its medium, the time from which it comes. Atemporality, or
timelessness, manifests itself in painting as an ahistorical
free-for-all, where contemporaneity as an indicator of new form is
nowhere to be found, and all eras co-exist. This profligate mixing
of past styles and genres is a hallmark for our moment in painting,
which artists achieve by reanimating historical styles or creating
a contemporary version of them, incorporating motifs from
throughout twentieth-century art into a single painting or a body
of work, or radically paring their language down to the most
archetypal forms. Published to accompany an exhibition at The
Museum of Modern Art, this volume features work by an international
roster of artists including Richard Aldrich, Joe Bradley, Kerstin
Bratsch, Matt Connors, Michaela Eichwald, Nicole Eisenman, Mark
Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Dianna
Molzan, Oscar Murillo, Laura Owens, Amy Sillman, Josh Smith, Mary
Weatherford and Michael Williams.
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