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19/11/2004

Three exhibitions

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

Michael Wesely / Yoshio Taniguchi / Mark Dion

Reinstallation of the Collection

MoMA presents the most extensive display of its collection ever, showcasing work from each of the Museum’s six curatorial departments—Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Illustrated Books, and Film and Media. Many of the Museum’s best-loved works, including Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, will be on view.

Michael Wesely: Open Shutter at The Museum of Modern Art

For more than a decade, Michael Wesely (German, b. 1963) has been inventing and refining techniques for making photographs with unusually long exposures-some as long as three years. In 1997 he began using this unique approach to photography to explore major urban construction projects, such as the rebuilding of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Buildings that are demolished or constructed over the course of Wesely's long exposures often appear ghostlike, evoking simultaneously a vanishing and emerging presence.

Open Shutter focuses on a major body of work created by Wesely at the invitation of The Museum of Modern Art. In the summer of 2001, he set up cameras at several locations in and around the Museum's ambitious renovation and construction project. Completed in June 2004, at the conclusion of major construction, Wesely's photographs provide an absorbing perspective on the historic transformation of the Museum's home in the heart of a thriving city.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication, which presents Open Shutter in full-page plates and enlarged details that enable readers to discover the rich complexity of each photograph.

Organized by Sarah Hermanson Meister, Associate Curator, Research and Collections, Department of Photography.
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Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums
till January 31, 2005

Architect Yoshio Taniguchi (Japanese, b. 1937) came to international acclaim in 1997 when he won both his first invited competition and his first international commission for the expansion of The Museum of Modern Art. Although MoMA's new building is the architect's first outside of Japan, in his native country he has distinguished himself over the past twenty years as a rare talent of sublimely beautiful architectural spaces, ideal for the display of works of art.

This exhibition presents nine of Taniguchi's museum designs central to understanding his approach to architecture. The exhibition begins with his first independent museum, the 1978 Shiseido Museum of Art, and ends with his Centennial Hall, which will be part of the Kyoto National Museum upon its completion in 2007. Each building is distinctly modern and characterized by pure geometries, rich materials, and artful construction. Large- and small-scale models of each project, including The Museum of Modern Art's renovated building, will be presented along with texts, photographs,and drawings.

Organized by Terence Riley, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
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Projects 82: Mark Dion-Rescue Archaeology, A Project for The Museum of Modern Art

In October 2000, when The Museum of Modern Art converted The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden into a staging area for the construction of the Museum's new building, artist Mark Dion (American, b. 1961) was invited to perform a series of archaeological excavations. Beneath the garden lay the foundations of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s, former townhouse at 10 West 54 Street, which had been torn down in 1938 to provide the land for the Museum's permanent quarters. Dion scavenged in the garden, the adjacent brownstone buildings, and the recently demolished Dorset Hotel, salvaging a number of historical artifacts. His finds include architectural cornices, moldings, shards of ceramic, and wallpaper samples, all of which are integrated into an installation highlighting the Museum's foundations within the new building.

Rescue Archaeology-A Project for The Museum of Modern Art consists of a series of six fireplace mantels, reclaimed from the demolished brownstones and fully restored by the artist; one interactive large-scale treasure cabinet containing cleaned relics and ephemera classified in specific drawers; a series of documentary photographs; and a functional laboratory.

Organized by Roxana Marcoci, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography.

Image: Yoshio Taniguchi. Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City. 1991-95. © Kitajima

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