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18/10/2002

Three exhibitions

Museum of Contemporary Art MCA, Chicago

Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation
October 19, 2002January 19, 2003

Gillian Wearing has emerged as one of the foremost British artists of her generation, creating video installations and photographic works that explore the strange humor and wrenching tragedy of everyday life. Winner of Britains prestigious Turner Prize in 1997, Wearing has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally. Her work often uses the techniques of documentary films and television to frame alternately unsettling, disturbing, comical, and unpredictable actions and words of various people drawn from the general populace of London. The MCA exhibition will be the first solo museum exhibition of Wearings work in the United States, presenting a survey of her photography and video work from 1996 to 2002.

This exhibition is generously supported by Margot and George Greig, Robert and Sylvie Fitzpatrick, The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and The British Council.

Air transportation is provided by American Airlines, the official airline of the Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Archigram: Experimental
Architecture 1961-1974
October 19, 2002January 19, 2003

The swinging sixties in Great Britain gave rise to such pop-culture icons as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, James Bond, The Avengers, and the experimental architecture collective Archigram. A common undercurrent in the production of culture during this time was the ambivalent representation of technology as a gloriously romanticized convenience or demonized harbinger of doomtechnology capable of efficiently facilitating pleasure, pain, and even death with the push of a button. Archigram was more interested in the pleasurable aspect of technology, characterized by the automated love-nests of Barbarella and James Bond or Peter Blakes whimsical cover for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. However, Archigram also addressed real social problems, transcending mere fantasy, and offered sometimes outrageous and sometimes prescient solutions.

Although none of their major projects were ever built, Archigrams utopian visions of modular communities such as Walking City (1964), Plug-In City (1965), and Instant City (1968) anticipated the mobility, interconnectivity, and technology of the information age and globalism. Although coming squarely out of Londons swinging sixties, both sharing and inspiring design aesthetics of the time, Archigram projects remain fresh today and continue to inspire contemporary architects, designers, and theorists. Their legacy has inspired works by such architects as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano and is considered the direct source for Rogerss and Pianos renowned Centre Pompidou.

Archigram: Experimental Architecture 19611974 will feature hundreds of original drawings and sketches, over a dozen scale models, and an integrated multi-media arena with slide projections, videos, music, and sound recordings.

This exhibition was organized by the Archigram Archives, London. Air transportation is provided by American Airlines, the official airline of the Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Franz Ackermann: TheWaterfall
October 19, 2002 September 28, 2003

The Waterfall is the title of German artist Franz Ackermanns site-specific wall painting which will be executed in the MCAs second floor lobby. Painted directly on the 24-foot-high North lobby wall, Ackermanns vibrant network of bold colors and forms will greet visitors as they enter the museums main entrance. Visually dazzling and disorienting, Ackermanns paintings vacillate between abstract composition and representational cityscape or landscape and present the artists own fleeting impressions of particular places to which he has traveled. Embodying the excitement and flux of cities in todays increasingly globalized society, Ackermanns work also reflects the flurry of building activity, economic fluctuation, and cultural readjustment in his home base of Berlin. This will be the first time Ackermanns work will be presented in Chicago. This exhibition is curated by Associate Curator Staci Boris.

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