Universal Experience
dal 10/2/2005 al 5/6/2005
Segnalato da
Vito Acconci
Doug Aitken
Darren Almond
Matthew Buckingham
Chris Burden
Maurizio Cattelan
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Peter Fischli
David Weiss
Katharina Fritsch
Thomas Hirschhorn
Ilya Kabakov
Jeff Koons
Matthias Moller
Gabriel Orozco
Martin Parr
Andrea Robbins
Max Becher
Thomas Schutte
Simon Starling
Thomas Struth
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Kyoichi Tsuzuki
Piotr Uklanski
Andy Warhol
Francesco Bonami
10/2/2005
Universal Experience
Museum of Contemporary Art MCA, Chicago
Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye. The show focus on the phenomenon of international visual artists whose work responds to their experiences of traveling. Ranging from large-scale installations and sculptures to more intimate photographs and videos, the works address issues related to tourism that include spectacle, architecture, authenticity, history, souvenirs, and anthropology. Works of more than seventy-five artists curated by Francesco Bonami
Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye
Curated by Francesco Bonami
It has been estimated that by 2010, the number of people who travel
internationally will reach one billion. Occupying the entire MCA building
as well as its outdoor spaces, the works in the exhibition Universal
Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye focus on the phenomenon of
international visual artists whose work responds to their experiences of
traveling. Ranging from large-scale installations and sculptures to more
intimate photographs and videos, the works address issues related to
tourism that include spectacle, architecture, authenticity, history,
souvenirs, and anthropology. MCA Manilow Senior Curator Francesco Bonami
writes in the exhibition catalogue, "The exhibition is a dialogue between
icons and icons to be. It questions how a tourist attraction becomes a
work of art-such as the Eiffel Tower-and how a work of art becomes a
tourist attraction-such as the Mona Lisa. It questions the role of
viewers, asking when we are tourists and when we are viewers. We enter a
museum as tourists, but upon encountering the mystery of art, we are
transformed into viewers. As viewers of icons such as the Mona Lisa, Nike
of Samothrace, or Jeff Koons' Rabbit, we share universal experiences and
become tourists and viewers and tourists again. The exhibition is a system
of mirrors, where icons, viewers, and tourists reflect each other."
The fantastic exhibition catalogue serves as a souvenir guidebook with a
new essay by Bonami and an anthology of critical writings by Charles
Baudelaire, Joan Didion, Umberto Eco, Julia Kristeva, the late Susan
Sontag, among many others. The vibrant color reproductions and
accompanying short texts lead us through the work of more than
seventy-five artists including Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Darren Almond,
Matthew Buckingham, Chris Burden, Maurizio Cattelan, Abraham Cruzvillegas,
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya
and Emilia Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Matthias Moller, Gabriel Orozco, Martin
Parr, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Thomas Schutte, Simon Starling,
Thomas Struth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Piotr Uklanski, and
Andy Warhol.
Image: Andy Warhol. Double Mona Lisa, 1963. Silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas. The Menil Collection, Houston, photograph by Hickey-Robertson, Houston.
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