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20/10/2007

Black Panther

Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA, Los Angeles

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
OCT 21, 2007–JAN 20, 2008
MOCA Pacific Design Center

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas traces the graphic art made by Emory Douglas while he worked as minister of culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s. Douglas's powerful visuals helped define the trademark visual style of the group's newspapers, posters, and pamphlets. Douglas's substantial body of work exists as a powerful graphic record of the Black Panthers' legacy, reflecting their development and evolving mission to improve the lives of African Americans by calling for resistance and change, as well providing social services to their communities. With a firm understanding of the need to disseminate information and communicate the party's agenda visually, Douglas's bold illustrations and striking images spoke forcefully to a community ravaged by poverty, police brutality, and poor living conditions. With unmistakable humanism, Douglas portrayed a populace that was emerging from segregation and proudly fighting to assert their rights to equality. Organized by MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Sam Durant, the exhibition includes approximately 150 of Douglas's most influential works, which serve as a testament to the efficacy of visual art to communicate a political position.


COSIMA VON BONIN: ROGER AND OUT
09.16.07 - 01.07.08

One of the most influential and compelling artists working in Germany today, Cologne-based artist Cosima von Bonin (b. 1962, Mombasa, Kenya) has, over the last 15 years, worked in a wide range of media—including sculpture, photography, textile “paintings,” installation, performance, film, video, and music—often combined together in large-scale installations. Drawing freely from a broad range of sources—such as the work of other artists, popular and vernacular culture, television, fashion, and Hip-Hop and Techno music—her art explores these different forms of cultural expression in an open, fluid approach that embraces both relationships and contradictions. Von Bonin constructs a community of social relations in her artwork using role-playing, collaboration, appropriation, and the transformation of the commonplace. Her works touch upon ideas of play and indoctrination, structure and improvisation, cultural and gender representations, identity, and self-reflection—with both absurdity and humor. Organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and curated by MOCA Senior Curator Ann Goldstein, this is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. It will present a survey of work created since 1990, including new pieces produced on the occasion of the exhibition.


GORDON MATTA-CLARK: YOU ARE THE MEASURE
09.16.07 - 01.07.08

Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure is a full-scale retrospective of one of the key figures to emerge in the generation of artists that followed minimalism. During the brief but highly productive ten years that he worked as an artist, and even more so since his death at the age of 35, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–78) has exerted a powerful fascination on artists and architects who know his work. The son of surrealist painter Roberto Echaurren Matta, Matta-Clark produced a body of work that incorporated spatial, social, and psychological experiences. Best known for the variety of his often spectacular, planned architectural interventions, Matta-Clark’s works transformed everyday experiences into extraordinary visual encounters. Among the major works featured in the exhibition are sculptures made from his acclaimed architectural building cuts, as well as drawings, films, photographs, and notebooks. A wealth of documentary material related to his interactions with architecture and space, community events, and collective activity is also shown.

The exhibition is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and curated by Elisabeth Sussman, the Whitney's Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography. The presentation at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is organized by MOCA Curator of Architecture and Design Brooke Hodge. The exhibition catalogue, published by the Whitney and distributed by Yale University Press, contains essays by Elisabeth Sussman, Briony Fer, Tina Kukielski, Gwendolyn Owens, Spyros Papapetros, Christian Scheidemann, and Joan Simon, with a foreword by Whitney director Adam D. Weinberg.

Gordon Matta-Clark: “You Are the Measure” was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in collaboration with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.


ARTISTS’ GIFTS: MICHAEL ASHER
09.09.07 - 01.07.08
MOCA has an extraordinary legacy of relationships with artists, who have generously supported the institution since its founding. Its permanent collection has been significantly enriched by artists donating their own works, as well as those of other artists. In 2006, Michael Asher made a gift to MOCA of 37 works from his personal collection, one of the largest gifts from an artist in the museum’s history. Spanning the late 1940s to the early ‘70s, many of the works were produced or exhibited in Los Angeles. Artists’ Gifts: Michael Asher features selections from this donation, including key works by Larry Bell, Vija Celmins, Judy Chicago, Joe Goode, Al Hansen, Donald Judd, Ken Price, Man Ray, Mason Williams, among others.


MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Friday 11am–5pm
Saturday 11am–6pm
Sunday 11am–6pm
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General Admission: $8
Students with I.D.: $5
Seniors (65+): $5
Children under 12: Free

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