Josiah McElheny
dal 11/2/2007 al 8/4/2007
Segnalato da
11/2/2007
Josiah McElheny
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
For Projects 84, Josiah McElheny (American, b. 1966) creates a largescale sculptural model of crystalline glass, colored electric lights, metal, and painted wood. His installation is both a materialization of and meditation on the visionary writings and sketches of Paul Scheerbart, a Berlin novelist and utopian fabulist, and architect Bruno Taut.
Projects 84
For Projects 84, Josiah McElheny (American, b. 1966) creates a largescale
sculptural model of crystalline glass, colored electric lights, metal,
and painted wood. His installation is both a materialization of and meditation
on the visionary writings and sketches of Paul Scheerbart, a Berlin
novelist and utopian fabulist, and Bruno Taut, the leader of a circle of revolutionary
architects that emerged in Germany after World War I. Scheerbart
and Taut envisioned a brave new world of illuminated, colored glass
architecture rising out of the ashes of war-ravaged Europe. McElheny
evokes this sublime glass utopia, with its ideals of spiritual fulfillment
and social amelioration, in his model-scale landscape of two abstract,
crystalline structures, Alpine Cathedral and City-Crown, comprised of
hollow glass modules whose varied prismatic forms are roughhewn and
handcrafted. The installation will be on view in a gallery adjacent to Out
of Time: A Contemporary View in the second-floor Contemporary Galleries.
Organized by Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film.
The Projects series is made possible by the Elaine Dannheisser Projects Endowment
Fund and by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art and the JA Endowment Committee.
Press Viewing Hour: February 12, 2007, 10:00–11:00 a.m.
Contemporary Galleries, second floor - MoMA
11 West 53 Street - New York