(the Art Institute of Chicago)
I've received great news. The Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago has just voted to purchase edition number 1/4 of the full Miscegenated Family Album installation, all 16 diptychs! It will be installed soon after the A.I.C.'s new contemporary art wing opens in May 2009, a year from now.
I'm thrilled. . . not only is this my biggest museum purchase to date. . . but for the first time in 15 years Miscegenated Family Album will be seen as a complete narrative and aesthetic experience and not as an "excerpt," a form that so often has led to misapprehension of the work. Many thanks to James Rondeau, head of the contemporary art department.
I look forward to helping install. Uncovering the best hanging for the space always teaches me a lot about the work. My favorite "look" so far was in NowHere at Denmark's Louisiana Museum --- it was in a small, dark space that looked like the inside of a sarcophagus!
I've received great news. The Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago has just voted to purchase edition number 1/4 of the full Miscegenated Family Album installation, all 16 diptychs! It will be installed soon after the A.I.C.'s new contemporary art wing opens in May 2009, a year from now.
I'm thrilled. . . not only is this my biggest museum purchase to date. . . but for the first time in 15 years Miscegenated Family Album will be seen as a complete narrative and aesthetic experience and not as an "excerpt," a form that so often has led to misapprehension of the work. Many thanks to James Rondeau, head of the contemporary art department.
I look forward to helping install. Uncovering the best hanging for the space always teaches me a lot about the work. My favorite "look" so far was in NowHere at Denmark's Louisiana Museum --- it was in a small, dark space that looked like the inside of a sarcophagus!
Labels: Art Institute of Chicago, contemporary art wing, James Rondeau, Louisiana Museum, Miscegenated Family Album, NowHere
