Trials and Terrors

Concentrating on large-scale installations – as well as significant photographs, paintings, and sculptures drawn primarily from the MCA Collection – Trials and Terrors presents two intertwining themes: transformation through hardship and evocations of sinister phenomena and events. Works featured in the exhibition include Bruce Nauman’s Hanging Carousel (George Skins a Fox), in which the artist transformed a playful structure into a darkly morbid metaphorical exercise; Mike Kelley’s sprawlingly abject Craft Morphology Flowchart, a suite of photographs from Larry Clark’s disturbing film KIDS about troubled adolescents; and Kara Walker’s Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage through the South. A major new acquisition by Dutch artist Mark Manders is exhibited, along with works by Cady Noland, Rob Fischer, Tørbjorn Rødland, Chris Vasell, Gillian Wearing, and others. This exhibition is curated by Pamela Alper Associate Curator Dominic Molon.

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Trials and Terrors
Kuratoren: Pamela Alper, Dominic Molon

mit Bruce Nauman, Mike Kelley, Larry Clark, Kara Walker, Mark Manders, Cady Noland, Rob Fischer, Torbjorn Rodland, Chris Vasell, Gillian Wearing, u.a.