The Puppet Show
dal 15/5/2008 al 8/8/2008
Segnalato da
Santa Monica Museum of Art SMMoA
Nayland Blake
Louise Bourgeois
Anne Chu
Nathalie Djurberg
Pierre Huyghe
Christian Jankowski
Mike Kelley
William Kentridge
Cindy Loehr
Annette Messager
Matt Mullican
Paul McCarthy
Guy Ben-Ner
Bruce Nauman
Dennis Oppenheim
Philippe Parreno
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Laurie Simmons
Kiki Smith
Kara Walker
15/5/2008
The Puppet Show
Santa Monica Museum of Art SMMoA, Santa Monica
A traveling exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. It features extraordinary works in different media by acclaimed contemporary artists that explore the imagery of puppets often with wicked good humor: Louise Bourgeois, Anne Chu, Nathalie Djurberg, Paul McCarthy, Dennis Oppenheim and many more on show.
International in scope, The Puppet Show features extraordinary works in different media by acclaimed contemporary artists that explore the imagery of puppets. The exhibition includes actual puppets—marionettes, shadow puppets, and hand puppets—as well as works that evoke topics associated with puppetry—manipulation, miniaturization, and control—while others introduce intriguing new perspectives of the puppet theme. All the works are movable and/or moving objects that function as alter-egos for the artist or as human surrogates—often with wicked good humor.
The Puppet Show takes as a historic point of departure one of the first episodes of avant-garde art history, Alfred Jarry’s 1896 French puppet show Ubu Roi. Beyond Ubu, puppets continue to appear as central images and metaphors within contemporary art and have recently taken hold of pop consciousness as well. The exhibition will include works by Nayland Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Chu, Nathalie Djurberg, Pierre Huyghe, Christian Jankowski, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Cindy Loehr, Annette Messager, Matt Mullican, Paul McCarthy, Guy Ben-Ner, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Philippe Parreno + Rirkrit Tiravanija, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith and Kara Walker. The Puppet Show is a traveling exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
Image: © Dennis Oppenheim
Theme for a Major Hit, Detail, 1974.
Motor driven marionettes, wood, cloth, felt, soundtrack, tape player, and external speakers. Soundtrack lyrics: "It ain't what you make, it's what makes you do it." Recorded at Angel Sound, New York in 1974 with: Jim Ballard, vocals; Roger Welch, drums; Bill Beckley, guitar/vocals; Christa Maiwald, vocals; Diego Cortez, electric organ; Connie Beckley, vocals; Dennis Oppenheim, lyrics. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.
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