Hirshhorn debuts new acquisitions in `What Absence Is Made Of`
(Artdaily.org)

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has opened `What Absence Is Made Of,` a major new exhibition of more than 70 recent acquisitions and rarely shown works that reimagine the extensive permanent collection. Prompted by today`s increasing focus on the material and digital worlds, the exhibition explores the compelling and enigmatic ways in which artists use absence - the loss of body, of physical form or of memory - as a form of artistic expression for more than 70 years. `What Absence Is Made Of` is organized by Hirshhorn curator-at-large Gianni Jetzer, and it completely transforms the Hirshhorn`s third-floor galleries Oct. 19 through summer 2019. This new perspective on the collection reflects the complex ways artists approach ideas around `emptiness.` Some use frame of reference, or mirroring effects, that trigger the imagination