[May 15, 2013] RH Launches Contemporary Art with Acquisition Rain Room by rAndom International Tweet May 15, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- RH announced the launch of RH Contemporary Art, a multi-channel platform designed to raise the visibility of international artists to collectors and viewers. According to a release, RH Contemporary Art acquired the first edition of Rain Room by rAndom International and will loan the artwork to The Museum of Modern Art for Expo 1: New York from mid-May through July 2013 to mark the U.S. premiere of the large-scale environment of falling water that allows visitors to control the rain. RH Contemporary Art will debut a commercial art gallery at 437 W 16th Street in New York City, a dynamic online platform with works for sale, and an art journal written by a roster of curators, academics and art world providers in Fall 2013. Gary Friedman, Chairman Emeritus, Creator and Curator of RH said, "We are honored that MoMA has chosen to exhibit Rain Room as part of Expo 1: New York, and thrilled that this inspiring work imagined and created by rAndom International will be shared with the world." Friedman continued, "For all of us at RH, and RH Contemporary Art, this work has special meaning. It is a reflection of creative courage, trust and a belief that all of us have the ability to affect any environment we choose to step into." RH Contemporary Art's project-based exhibition space and commercial art gallery's inaugural exhibition of Autonomy*, by rAndom International, will be the first overview of the London-based studio's research and work to be shown in the United States. Building on the successful Before The Rain showing at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris, France, in 2012, the exhibition will provide context and background for the monumental premiere of Rain Room (2012) on display at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Autonomy* will survey the response of the viewer and its fundamental influence and impact on a studio's practice. Performance and collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor and composer Max Richter are investigated in Future Self (2012), and the studio's analogue explorations in temporary self-image are shown with Study For A Mirror (2009) and Self Portrait (2010). Both Audience (2008) and Fly (2011) provide differing perspectives on simulation, motion and emotion. Cognition and the experience of the body in space are explored in Study Of You (2011). Enlisting a worldwide curatorial team to discover international artists, RH Contemporary Art will directly commission bodies of work, as well as debut a dynamic online platform with videos of studio visits, including in-depth interviews and critical writing, to raise the visibility and build recognition for each artist and their practice. RH is a curator of design, taste and style in the luxury lifestyle market. It offers collections through its retail galleries, source books, and online. More information: www.rhcontemporaryart.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]