Sarah Morris
dal 28/11/2013 al 12/4/2014
Segnalato da
28/11/2013
Sarah Morris
Museum of Contemporary Art MCA, Chicago
Morris paints a panoramic picture of Chicago's emblematic built environment, while her signature telescopic zooms frequently pierce the city's well-tended surface to reveal something altogether less planned, manicured, and anesthetized - and therefore more familiar.
What does Chicago look like through the outsider eyes of New York–based painter and filmmaker Sarah Morris? Chicago is Morris’ tenth film and part of an ongoing series of city portraits.
Set to a hypnotic electronic score by British artist Liam Gillick, Morris’s film Chicago (2011) pays homage to the quintessential American city. Morris paints a panoramic picture of Chicago’s emblematic built environment, while her signature telescopic zooms frequently pierce the city’s well-tended surface to reveal something altogether less planned, manicured, and anesthetized—and therefore more familiar. These unscrupulous close-ups and subtly spying glances compound the sensation that we ourselves inhabit the outsider’s probing gaze.
The American premiere of Chicago is the touchstone for this display of works from the MCA Collection—both by Chicago artists and by outsiders like Morris—that similarly hold a mirror to the museum’s hometown. A certain measure of alienation permeates much of the work of Andreas Gursky, and Catherine Opie, who are among the better-known artists in the “outsider” category, while artists Jonas Dovydenas, Kenneth Josephson, Jason Lazarus, and Bob Thall offer a more sympathetic or relaxed “insider” view. The exhibition also includes works by Keith Morrison, and Thomas Struth from neighboring Chicago collections.
Opening 29th Nov
Museum of Contemporary Art-MCA
220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago
Hours: Tue 10 am–8 pm; Wed–Sun 10 am–5 pm
Admission: General $12; Students with ID and Senior Citizens $ 7; MCA Members, 12 and under Free