The MCA will present a new installation work created especially for the Museum by Katharina Fritsch, one of the most prominent artists to emerge from Germany during the past 20 years.
Although she works in a variety of media, Fritsch is best known for her meticulously crafted sculptures that are inspired as much by mass culture items as by high art sources.
Fritsch's evocative and mysterious sculptures have been described as "apparitions" because of their enigmatic presence.
Her exhibition will consist of a work composed of thousands of small, identical multiples of golden shafts of wheat composed to form an enormous field in the gallery, creating an environment that relates to landscape and minimalist sculpture.
This exhibition is curated by James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Elizabeth Smith.
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