INTERPOLATIONS ARTWORKS FROM THE RINGLING AND MONDA COLLECTIONS

ON VIEW MAR 17 – SEP 8

Presented in the Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing, this exhibition brings together artworks from The Ringling’s permanent collection of modern and contemporary art with selections of important works from the Keith D. and Linda L. Monda collection. The exhibition is part of The Ringling’s ongoing Art of Our Time initiative, enacting our dedication to present diverse voices and perspectives to our visitors.

In mathematics, interpolation is a method of estimating new data points within a range of known data. The exhibition title, Interpolations, serves as a metaphor for the way new points of knowledge will be activated when these collections come into conversation.

In Spring 2018, the Museum installed Beverly Pepper’s Curvae in Curvae (2012) on the lawn in front of the Museum of Art. The lyrical sculpture in Cor-ten steel, along with compelling works by artists Teo González, Yayoi Kusama, and Richard Serra, make up four promised gifts from the Monda collection to The Ringling. These gifts significantly enrich the Museum’s holdings of works by important artists working today, some new to the collection. These artworks will be featured in Interpolations, along with other selections from the Monda collection and key works from The Ringling’s growing collection of modern and contemporary art, including works by Michele Oka Doner, Jackie Ferrara, Helen Frankenthaler, Käthe Kollwitz, and Louise Nevelson. Presented together, these artworks offer a broader and more complex history of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art.

The Monda’s philanthropy and stewardship supports The Ringling’s Art of Our Time initiative and sponsors a permanent space devoted to twenty-first-century art: the Keith D. and Linda L. Monda Gallery for Contemporary Art, located in the west wing of the Museum of Art, showcases new projects by emerging and established contemporary artists, such as the upcoming solo exhibition by Natasha Mazurka.

Interpolations demonstrates how an institutional collection can be invigorated and expanded through the meaningful introduction of complementary works from a private lender. By presenting the Museum with the opportunity to display works by significant artists in a critical dialogue with one another, the viewer is empowered to make fresh observations and discover intriguing parallels.