Scott Reeder
dal 31/10/2011 al 23/1/2012
Segnalato da
31/10/2011
Scott Reeder
Museum of Contemporary Art MCA, Chicago
Chicago Works. The artist's first solo museum exhibition includes new figurative paintings in his signature idiosyncratic style - for instance, anthropomorphic foods, fruits, and plants smoking cigarettes or enacting the myths of Sisyphus and Narcissus, and, most recently, abstract paintings made with cooked and raw spaghetti.
This exhibition is curated by MCA Pamela Alper Associate Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm.
Scott Reeder’s first solo museum exhibition includes new figurative paintings in his signature idiosyncratic style—for instance, anthropomorphic foods, fruits, and plants smoking cigarettes or enacting the myths of Sisyphus and Narcissus, and, most recently, abstract paintings made with cooked and raw spaghetti. Reeder’s faux-naïve approach complicates the gravitas of his subject, namely the history of painting and the macho, academic nature of much of that history, with saccharine colors, atypical materials, and oddball subjects. At the same time, his work challenges established tastes and values. For this exhibition, Reeder creates a large-scale, site-specific wall painting from his abstract spaghetti series for the second-floor lobby wall and screens his first feature-length film, Moon Dust, a futuristic story of a failing resort located on the moon.
Image: Scott Reeder, Untitled, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, and Kavi Gupta, Chicago│Berlin.
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Opening November 1st, 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art
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