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As
part of a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition entitled
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, Tim
Buckley and Larry Beckett's Song to the Siren
is being used in David Salle's 1977 piece.
"It
is an installation in a room with two photographs and
programmed lights and sound, the latter being Tim Buckley's
"Song to the Siren" which plays over two speakers
as part of the piece," said curator Douglas Eklund,
"Basically, the work is in an a-b-a structure:
first the song plays, there is a pause, and then the
lights on the floor flash on and off in a random sequence
for two minutes, followed by another pause after which
the song starts again. It is very haunting and moving."
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Pictures
Generation of New York Contemporary Artists
Featured in Spring Metropolitan Museum Exhibition
April 21–August 2, 2009
Joyce
and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography and The Tisch
Galleries, second floor
The
first major museum exhibition to focus on the highly influential
group of New York artists known as the Pictures Generation
will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April
21 through August 2, 2009. It will trace the development of
one of the most important art movements of the last quarter
of the 20th century, which included some of the key figures
in contemporary art: Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Richard
Prince, Sherrie Levine, David Salle, Matt Mullican, Jack Goldstein,
James Welling, and Troy Brauntuch.
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