Orpheus | Guide to artworks featured in Hanna Benn's "View (Un)titled"

Inspiredbyartworksinthecollectionat TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork CommissionedbyOrpheusfortheir50thAnniversarySeason HANNABENN View(Un)titled

1988|Oilonwood,sixpanels;eachpanel10'63/4"x461/8"(321.9x117.2cm) TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork ©2021TheEstateofSusanRothenberg/ArtistsRightsSociety(ARS),NewYork III. SusanRothenberg 1,2,3,4,5,6 1980|Wireropeandwire,32bundles,each16"(40.6cm)high. ©TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork II. MarenHassinger Leaning I.“Promenade” AWalkingTheme (musiconly)

4 5 1989|Glassbottles,caps,siliconeglue,andcoal;Dimensionsvariable, approximately30x42x42"(76.2x106.7x106.7cm) ©TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork VI. DavidHammons Untitled(NightTrain) V. LeeUfan FromLine 1974| Oiloncanvas,711/2x893/8"(181.6x227cm) TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork ©2022ArtistsRightsSociety(ARS),NewYork/ADAGP,Paris 1951|Oiloncanvas,66×90"(167.6×228.6cm) ©TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork IV. SonjaSekula TheTownofthePoor

6 1990|Gelatinsilverprint,printed2010;10x10"(25.4×25.4cm) TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork©2022CarrieMaeWeems CourtesyoftheartistandJackShainmanGallery,NewYork VII. CarrieMaeWeems Untitled (womananddaughterwithmakeup) VIII. KamalaIbrahimIshag Untitled 1980/1990|Oiloncanvas,707/8×6911/16"(180×177cm) TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork©KamalaIbrahimIshag

IX. TarsiladoAmaral TheMoon 1928|Oiloncanvas,435/16×435/16"(110×110cm) TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork ©2022ArtistsRightsSociety(ARS),NewYork/ADAGP,Paris www.orpheusnyc.org SpecialthankstoPaulinaPobocha,AssociateCurator,DepartmentofPaintingand Sculpture,forwelcomingHannaBenntoexploreMoMA'scollection.

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Orpheus | Guide to artworks featured in Hanna Benn's "View (Un)titled"

Published on Jan 13, 2023

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

"View (Un)titled" muses on 8 artworks exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), all from varied mediums and artistic disciplines. When first commissioned by Orpheus to imagine my own Pictures at an Exhibition, I roamed the MoMA’s halls in early 2022 looking for pieces that spoke to me, and in turn could speak to one another. What resulted is a set of tone poems which move between reflection and celebration, mourning and joy. Throughout the composition, I pay homage to Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition by interspersing a promenade-like theme. This woven theme gives the listener a chance to wander through the pieces as one might a museum. Fortuitously, most of the artwork I've chosen to respond to is “Untitled.” In my attempt to find a name for this composition, I felt it necessary that the journey through the music itself should also not be confined to a title. Thus, “View (Un)titled” – a title within a non-title. © 2022 Hanna Benn