Otherworldly
dal 6/6/2011 al 17/9/2011
Segnalato da
Matthew Albanese
Amy Bennett
Oliver Boberg
James Casebere
Mat Collishaw
Bethany de Forest
Thomas Doyle
Gregory Euclide
Joe Fig
Peter Feigenbaum
Patrick Jacobs
Kim Keever
Frank Kunert
Ji Lee
Walter Martin
Paloma Munoz
Didier Massard
Charles Matton
Michael McMillen
Lori Nix
David Opdyke
Liliana Porter
Jonah Samson
Charles Simonds
Michael Paul Smith
Tracey Snelling
Paolo Ventura
Alan Wolfson
6/6/2011
Otherworldly
Museum of Arts & Design - MAD, New York
Optical Delusions and Small Realities. The exhibition features recent work and site-specific installations by contemporary artists from around the world. The show illuminates the phenomenal renaissance of interest among artists worldwide in constructing small-scale hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities, either as sculpture or as subjects for photography and video. The works are presented as dioramas, models, snow globes, and site specific installations, as well as through photographs and video.
Virtual reality has been a powerful factor in shaping our social and artistic environment since the 1970s. Today, innovations in digital technology have completely transformed film, video, and television: extraordinary special effects and three-dimensional imaging created using computer-based software are commonplace. However, while the digital world continues to expand into more and more areas of our lives, a profound human need to re-experience the actual and tangible has also arisen. It is not a coincidence that as individuals spend more and more time looking at a monitor interacting with others in cyberspace, the pleasures in making things by hand, engaging with materials and techniques in a direct fashion, also increase.
Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities illuminates the phenomenal renaissance of interest among artists worldwide in constructing small-scale hand built depictions of artificial environments and alternative realities, either as sculpture or as subjects for photography and video. These are worlds of "magic realism" conceived and realized through intense engagement with materials, attention to detail, and concern for meaningful content. In this exhibition, the works are presented as dioramas, models, snow globes, and site specific installations, as well as through photographs and video.
For MAD, this is an exceptional opportunity to examine the museum's mission-to explore materials and processes and the "meaning of making"-in a new and unexpected format; each work of art in the exhibition reflects the artists' passionate interest in how materials and process convey meaning; these are artists who dedicate tremendous time and effort to achieving extraordinary visions of reality. Furthermore, one important initiative of MAD since our reformulation as a museum of contemporary arts and design is to challenge and erode the hierarchical boundaries that have traditionally separate fields of creativity. Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities will be our first exhibition to fully embrace the field of photography under the umbrella of our mission, thus establishing new and creative linkages between art, craftsmanship, design, and visual imaging.
Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities is organized around four themes that provide a context for the works, and offer the viewer a narrative thread that makes the works accessible to our visitors.
Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities features recent work and site-specific installations by contemporary artists from around the world including Matthew Albanese, Amy Bennett, Oliver Boberg, James Casebere, Mat Collishaw, Bethany de Forest, Thomas Doyle, Gregory Euclide, Joe Fig, Peter Feigenbaum, Patrick Jacobs, Kim Keever, Frank Kunert, Ji Lee, Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, Didier Massard, Charles Matton, Michael McMillen, Lori Nix, David Opdyke, Liliana Porter, Jonah Samson, Charles Simonds, Michael Paul Smith, Tracey Snelling, Paolo Ventura, and Alan Wolfson, among others.
Image: Oliver Boberg, Abrisswand / Demolition Wall, 2010, c-print
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Marisa Bartolucci
Associate VP, Public Affairs Museum of Arts and Design
212.299.7762 marisa.bartolucci@madmuseum.org
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