Objects of Value
dal 20/11/2008 al 21/2/2009
Segnalato da
Janine Antoni
Walead Beshty
Chris Burden
Dario Escobar
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
David Lefkowitz
Jac Leirner
Josiah McElheny
Marilyn Minter
Vik Muniz
Wangechi Mutu
Wilfredo Prieto
Santiago Sierra
Simon Starling
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Tunga
Carey Young
Rene Morales
20/11/2008
Objects of Value
Miami Art Museum, Miami
This exhibition centers on the rich cultural history of traditionally valuable materials such as silver, diamonds, gold, etc., as well as the nearly visceral desires that these substances are capable of evoking. The project also focuses on the important immaterial factors that underlie the determination of value: from a given object's emotional or religious significance to aspects of its life on the market, as well as the crucial if silent role played by human labor and the human body. On display works by such artists as Janine Antoni, Walead Beshty, Chris Burden, Dario Escobar, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Lefkowitz, Marilyn Minter, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Wilfredo Prieto and many others.
How is economic value defined and determined? Does it correspond to an object's intrinsic qualities or is it purely a social construction? Fundamentally, what do we say about our culture and our society - about our selves - through the objects that we have chosen to value? This exhibition centers on the rich cultural history of traditionally valuable materials such as silver, diamonds, gold, etc., as well as the nearly visceral desires that these substances are capable of evoking. The exhibition also focuses on the important immaterial factors that underlie the determination of value: from a given object's emotional or religious significance to aspects of its life on the market, as well as the crucial if silent role played by human labor and the human body.
Objects of Value features works by such artists as Janine Antoni, Walead Beshty, Chris Burden, Dario Escobar, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Lefkowitz, Jac Leirner, Josiah McElheny, Marilyn Minter, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Wilfredo Prieto, Santiago Sierra, Simon Starling, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tunga and Carey Young. The exhibition combines works from the MAM collection with works on loan from various sources throughout North America and Europe. Objects of Value is organized by Miami Art Museum and curated by Associate Curator Rene Morales. It is supported by MAM's Annual Exhibitions Fund.
Image: Wangechi Mutu, You tried so hard to make us away, 2005. Ink, acrylic, glitter, fur, contact paper and collage on Mylar 88 x 51-1/4 inches. Collection Miami Art Museum, acquired with funds from MAM Collectors Council
Contemporary:
Chantal Akerman
Moving Through Time and Space
October 16, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Upper Level Gallery
MAC@MAM presents the first major traveling exhibition in the United States of works by one of the great filmmakers or our time. The five projects of Moving through Time and Space span more than two decades of Akerman's career, opening a window onto the permeable border between the creative domains of fact and fiction.
Yinka Shonibare, MBE
A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child
October 31, 2008 - January 18, 2009
New Work Gallery
Yinka Shonibare, MBE, British-born of Nigerian parents, is best known for installations and photographs reflecting the legacy of 19th century colonialism. He creates mise-en-scénes of headless mannequins in Victorian attire of wax-printed African fabrics, produced in Britain and the Netherlands. The missing identities play into his fashion/fabric/production correlations.
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