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Exhibition dates: 2nd February – 20th July 2014
Dario Escobar (Guatemalan, b. 1971)
Obverse & Reverse XIV (installation view)
2013
Latex, leather, string and steel
11 1/2 × 6 9/16 × 6 9/16 ft. (349.89 × 199.94 × 199.94cm)
Dario Escobar
Courtesy of the artist and Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
In honour of the World Cup final and a wonderful tournament, here is a glorious posting to celebrate The Beautiful Game!
PS. So much of this work is conceptual graphic design, doesn’t anybody make art anymore?
Marcus
Many thankx to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
On the eve of the World Cup – which, like the Olympics, takes place every four years – this exhibition celebrates football, the world’s game, and its richness as a field for metaphorical inquiry. Just as the World Cup brings together athletes and fans from around the globe, Fútbol: The Beautiful Game explores some of the ties that bind us as humans. Focusing on a simple game allows for a direct conversation about the communication and (more often) miscommunication that characterise our collective
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Antoni Muntadas
Spanish artist and retired MIT professor Antoni Muntadas’s show, “Activating Artifacts,” includes two three-channel video projections, About Academia I, 2011, and About Academia II, 2017, that index the conditions of higher education in the United States through quotations from educational theorists, snippets of interviews conducted in 2011 and 2017 with liberal professors and students, and looping scenes of campus life—lecture halls full of empty chairs, a closed door with a sign that reads “Computational Materials Meditation Room,” and students in sweatshirts walking to class in the rain. A freestanding thick windowed wall bisects the dark gallery, with the three screens suspended on either side. On one side are edited fragments of the 2011 interviews with well-traveled faculty such as Ute Meta Bauer, Noam Chomsky, and Howard Zinn, as well as with a professor who reported feeling as if he had become less important within his institution when his research didn’t attract funding. On the other side, interviews recorded in 2017 feature recent students—more visibly diverse than their elders—reflecting further on the stresses of institutional intellectual life, among them low-paying part-time work, oppressi
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Muntadas. Rendering Empty City
Video Order and Digital Creation Programmeof the Bilbao Fine Study Museum essential the BBVA Foundation
Produced descendant Muntadas compel the Bilbao Fine Terrace Museum Foundation
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