Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art.MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART contemporary art, the art of the late 20th cent. and early 21st cent., both an outgrowth and a rejection of modern art. As the force and vigor of abstract expressionism diminished, new artistic movements and styles arose during the 1960s and 70s to challenge and displace modernism in painting, sculpture, and other media. Will the art world's love affair with the mise en abime ever end? Perhaps the "language of dioramas" will bring out the lighter side .of the by-now-familiar descent into endless versions of "constructed realities." MCA associate curator Toby Kamps has selected eleven artists (and two Museum of Jurassic Technology curators) who use models of the real or imagined as departure points for work in two dimensions (Alexis Rockman's trompe-l'oeil landscapes; Hiroshi Sugimoro's wax-museum photographs) or three (Tony Matelli's life-size sculpture of three Boy Scouts puking; Helen Cohen's miniaturized interiors within interiors). The catalogue boasts essays by Kamps and Ralph Rugoff. Jan. 23-Apr.30; Institute of contemporary Art, Philadelphia, spring 2001. |
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