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6/10/2012

The inaugural events

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland MOCA, Cleveland

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) opens the doors of its new building today with the inaugural exhibitions. MOCA Cleveland's striking new building was designed by Iranian-born Farshid Moussavi of London, formerly with Foreign Office Architects (FOA) and now founder and principal of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA). This is her first U.S. commission and her first museum.

October 8, 2012 — February 24, 2013
Inside Out and From the Ground Up

David Altmejd, Walead Beshty, Jeremy Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Katharina Grosse, David Hammons, Jacqueline Humphries, Oliver Husain, Gordon Matta-Clark, Corey McCorkle, Henrique Oliveira, Barry Underwood, William Villalongo, Jennifer West, Rachel Whiteread, and Haegue Yang

Organized by David Norr, Chief Curator

A new MOCA Cleveland. Dramatic structure. Dynamic galleries.

Inside Out and From the Ground Up, the inaugural exhibition at MOCA Cleveland’s new building, spreads throughout the Museum. Considering the building itself as a dynamic sculptural form, the exhibition engages the architecture as both subject and stage. The works on view present the breadth of contemporary practice, from physical constructions and monumentally-scaled painting, to minimal gestures and experimental film and video. Inside Out and From the Ground Up calls on viewers to move around, look up close and from afar, and consider multiple perspectives.

Barry Underwood’s photographs provide an inner, transitional view of the building throughout its construction, capturing the energy behind its formation. In contrast to the newness of the architecture, works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Henrique Oliveira, and Jennifer West explore the symbolic potential of aging and soon-to-be-forgotten structures. Works by Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, and Haegue Yang signify human presence through objects that bear the subtle marks of use. Oliver Husain, Corey McCorkle, and William Villalongo offer portals to dream-like other worlds, whereas Jeremy Blake and David Hammons take us to particular places, rich with social and historical layers. Paintings by Katharina Grosse and Jacqueline Humphries absorb viewers in perceptual ambiguity. Walead Beshty uses chemical reactivity to alter the surface of materials, while David Altmejd’s work generates vital forces from within.

Through this array of media and approaches, the artists in Inside Out and From the Ground Up explore our active and variable relationship with the built world. Reflecting on how spaces are constructed, divided, and imagined, they shape viewers’ awareness of their own presence and surroundings.

Related Programs:

Curator Tour
October 17, 2012 / 12:30pm

PLAYTIME (at the Cinematheque)
October 20, 2012 / 5:00pm


October 8, 2012 — February 24, 2013
Inside Out and From the Ground Up:
Video Salon

Jeremy Blake, David Hammons, Oliver Husain, Corey McCorkle, Jennifer West, Haegue Yang

Organized by David Norr, Chief Curator; Rose Bouthillier, Assistant Curator; and Brett Kashmere, independent curator and editor of INCITE Journal of Experimental Media
Rosalie and Morton Cohen Family Gallery

This series explores how artists have used time-based media to engage space and architecture through duration, performance and embodied perspective. From hand-held shots to chemical treatments, these works emphasize the spatial and material qualities of film and video. Together, they prompt us to consider the social and psychological and aspects of a range of locations, including empty streets, an abandoned zoo, a historical house, hidden cavern, and physics lab.
Each screening will be looped continuously during MOCA Cleveland’s public hours.

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October 8, 2012 — December 30, 2012
David Altmejd
The Orbit

Organized by David Norr, Chief Curator
Toby Devan Lewis Gallery

David Altmejd’s sculptures contain a dazzling energy, at once biological, kinetic, and surreal. The Orbit (2012) presents a fractured array of fruits, chains, thread, glass, oozing fluids, and strange body parts. The complex spatial construction shifts viewers’ awareness of their own bodies and surroundings. It cannot be entirely seen from any one perspective; viewers must circle the vitrine and look in at every angle, often confronting their own reflections. Transparency and visual echoes lead to moments of confusion, doubt, and discovery. Things come together, only to fall apart at a glance.

Integrating crystal and flesh, sparkle and abyss, Altmejd conveys the radical potential of self-transfiguration. Smashed mirrors and crushed cherries give the work a violent edge, while pastel werewolf hands and choppy wigs verge on ugly and vulgar. Yet each of these elements gives visual and sensual pleasure, set in a rupturing, gooey system of wonder.

The Orbit is part of Altmejd’s ongoing series of vitrine works. Often found in natural history museums, vitrines are clear display cases that symbolize order, classification and knowledge. Altmejd’s vitrines suggest that it is more interesting to gaze at what is live and mysterious, than what is still and known.

David Altmejd (1974, Montréal, Canada) lives and works in New York. He has been featured in solo exhibitions at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich; Oakville Galleries, Canada; and MAGASIN - Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France. In 2007, he represented Canada at the 52nd Venice Biennale. His work is represented in the United States by Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.

The Orbit is a special project for the exhibition Inside Out and From the Ground Up.

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October 8, 2012 — June 9, 2013
Katharina Grosse
Third Man Begins Digging Through Her Pockets

Organized by David Norr, Chief Curator
Donna and Stewart Kohl Atrium

Katharina Grosse’s vibrant, massively scaled paintings and installations invite viewers to physically encounter color. Using the expanded platform of architecture, Grosse takes on ceilings, walls, and floors as “canvases,” erasing their boundaries with sprayed acrylic paint. Abandoning the flat materials and frontal address typically associated with painting, her works engage viewers through movement and shifting dimensional relationships.

Grosse's project at MOCA Cleveland, Third Man Begins Digging Through Her Pockets (2012), layers the dynamic space inside of the building's three-story atrium with blasts of orange, purple, and yellow. Cloaked in paint, the planar surfaces of the walls and monumental stair alternately advance and recede, oscillating between real and illusionary space. Grosse’s expansive work can be seen from the ground floor, second and third floor landings, and from outside the building at night. The title of the work nods to the language of stage direction, emphasizing the painting’s theatrical qualities. Grosse’s works are highly performative; as viewers move through them, tracing the artist’s gestures, their own actions are in turn framed by the color-saturated backdrop.

Grosse’s commission is a special project for the inaugural exhibition at MOCA Cleveland’s new building, Inside Out and From the Ground Up, and she is the first artist to be featured in the Museum’s new annual Atrium Project series. Each year, MOCA Cleveland will work with a contemporary artist to create an installation that utilizes the unique structure and visibility of the space.

Katharina Grosse (1961, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions of her works have been held at Mass MOCA, North Adams; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. She has also participated in international group shows including the 11th Biennale of Sydney, and the 25th São Paulo Biennial.

Image: Henrique Oliveira, Carambóxido, 2012, demolition wood, PVC, plywood, foam, drywall, scrap metal and rubber, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Millan, São Paolo. Commissioned by MOCA Cleveland. Photo: Tim Safranek Photographics.

Press contact:
Justin Conner, FITZ & CO: Justin@fitzandco.com / T 212 627 1455 x233

Opening Members Day October 7, 2012 / 12:00pm — 5:00pm

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland MOCA
11400 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106
HOURS
Tuesday through Sunday: 11am - 5pm
Open late Thursdays until 10pm
Closed Mondays
ADMISSION
Free for MOCA Cleveland Members and children under 6 years of age
$8 General Admission:
$6 Seniors (Ages 65+)
$5 Students (with valid ID)
Free admission for all visitors on the first Saturday of the month

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