Page 67 - World of Art Contemporary Art magazine: The 2023 Guggenheim issue

Installation view, Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
February 4, 2021–May 2, 2022. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation, 2022.

Black sonic practitioners who negotiated twentieth-
century social experience with compositions that could
be powerfully expressive in their embrace of opacity.
Far more than “viewers,” visitors to the museum are
encouraged to experience the social and physical
dynamics of perception as they explore Jones’s works on
the first two levels of the Guggenheim rotunda, as well as
a sound installation on the sixth level.

Installed alongside Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle,
Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics invites a surprising dialogue
between the two artists for whom music is central to the
composition of their respective works. The synesthetic
experience of encountering Jones’s art mirrors Jennie C. Jones, Fractured Extension/Broken Time, 2021 (detail). Acoustic
Kandinsky’s own spiritual belief in art at the intersection absorber panel, architectural felt, and acrylic on canvas in two parts, 121.9 ×
121.9 × 7.6 cm each. © Jennie C. Jones, courtesy Alexander Gray Associates,
of sight and sound. New York, and PATRON Gallery, Chicago

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