Bluhm Family Terrace May 1–September 19, 2010
Overview:
London-based artist Roger Hiorns’s captivating sculptural objects,
installations, and performances exploit unusual materials to disquieting
ends. Among the artist’s principal preoccupations is the form of the
engine—extracted from both automobiles and airplanes. In the most
general terms, the engine is, for Hiorns, a metaphor for networks both
inert and, potentially, threateningly alive.
Roger Hiorns's Untitled (Alliance) installed on
the Modern Wing's Bluhm Family Terrace.
For his commissioned site-specific project on the
Bluhm Family Terrace of the Modern Wing, Hiorns presents two Pratt
and Whitney TF33 P9 engines, once mounted on Boeing EC135 Looking Glass
long-range surveillance planes. For the artist, the project is a
representation of a dominant 20th-century object within the context of
art and the art museum. The engine apparatus, Hiorns argues, is no less
culturally important than the other artworks displayed with it; many
works in the Modern Wing were, in fact, created under the shadow of the
security the engine assembly once and still provides.
Sponsor:
Major funding is generously provided by
The Bluhm Family Endowment Fund supports exhibitions of modern and
contemporary sculpture, which may consist of existing works drawn from
the Art Institute’s permanent collection or borrowed from other
collections private and public, or new works commissioned specifically
for this site.
Tomado de: http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/Hiorns
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