Juan Munoz.HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art collection amassed by the industrialist Joseph H. Hirshhorn and presented by him to the nation in 1966. Opened in 1974, it is the capital city's first museum devoted exclusively to modern art. The building is a circular, windowless slab of concrete faced with pink granite. Juan Munoz's series of cast-resin and bronze tableaux occupied a full floor of the Dia Center in New York in 1996-97, but the Hirshhorn exhibition comprises the Spanish sculptor's first career survey in the States. A cluster of Borgesian tropes TROPE - Trial Ocean Prediction Experiment--the balcony, the trompe l'oeil floor, the dwarf--run through Munoz's strange theatrical settings, featuring figures enigmatically assembled as if for conversation. The catalogue to the exhibition, which includes work made since the mid '80s, includes essays by Art Institute curator Neal Benezra, Hirshhorn curator Olga OLGA - Ouf! un Langage pour les Grammaires Attribuees. Inria, 1985. Language for specification of attribute grammars, used as the input language of the compiler writing system FNC-2. Applicative, strongly typed, polymorphic, pattern-matching, modules. Viso, and critic Michael Brenson. Oct. 18-Jan. 13; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Apr. 21-July 28; Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. Among its famous collections are those of early Italian, Dutch, Spanish, and Flemish paintings, including works by El Greco, Rembrandt, and Hals., Sept. 14-Dec. 8, 2002; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Jan. 24, 2003- Mar. 30, 2003. |
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