Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain
Selected Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Collection
Contributions by Francesco Bonami, Alfredo Jaar. Text by Staci Boris, Sylvia Chivaratanond, Monika Gehlawat, Lela Hersh, Dominic Molon, Alison Pearlman, Heather Ring, Julie Rodrigues, Michael Rooks, Jenni Sorkin, Tricia Van Eck, Lynne Warren, Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Robert Fitzpatrick. With its title taken from a signature work by Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate ,Pleasure, Pain presents a selection of approximately 190 works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A wide-ranging, insightful survey, arranged in roughly chronological order, it features work by such artists as Vito Acconci, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Joseph, Beuys, Christo, Iìigo Manglano-Ovalle, KerryJames Marshall, Mariko Mori, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Yinka Shonibare and H. C. Westermann. In an introductory essay, chief curator Elizabeth Smith discusses key trends in art from World War II to the present and provides a brief history of the MCA and its collection. Additional, accessible short texts by the curatorial staff of the MCA focus on individiual works. |
