Digital Image © 2019 The Museum
of Modern Art, New York. Photographed by Heidi Bohnenkamp
Digital Image © 2019 The Museum
of Modern Art, New York. Photographed by Heidi Bohnenkamp
Goshka Macuga
Exhibition M, 2019
Installation view, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
jacquard tapestry
jacquard tapestry
1110 x 1510 cm
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In this work-a monumental tapestry woven on a computer-controlled jacquard loom- Macuga surrounds herself with reproductions of over two hundred artworks from MoMA's collection. This image evokes a photograph taken...
In this work-a monumental tapestry woven
on a computer-controlled jacquard loom-
Macuga surrounds herself with reproductions
of over two hundred artworks from MoMA's
collection. This image evokes a photograph
taken in 1954 of the French politician, publisher,
and novelist André Malraux observing the
layout of the second book in his trilogy Le
Musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale
(The Imaginary Museum of World Sculpture).
Malraux observed that museums "estrange
the works they bring together from their original
functions and ... transform even portraits
into 'pictures."
Inspired by the time she spent in MoMA's
archives, conducting research on the
Museum's collection and exhibition history,
Macuga orchestrated her own personal
survey, framing the museum as living and
open to reinterpretation and reevaluation.
Commissioned on the occasion of The
Museum of Modern Art's 2019 reopening,
courtesy the artist and Andrew reps Gallery,
New York. Organized by Yasmil Raymond,
Associate Curator, Department of Painting
and Sculpture, with Tara Keny, Curatorial
Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints.
on a computer-controlled jacquard loom-
Macuga surrounds herself with reproductions
of over two hundred artworks from MoMA's
collection. This image evokes a photograph
taken in 1954 of the French politician, publisher,
and novelist André Malraux observing the
layout of the second book in his trilogy Le
Musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale
(The Imaginary Museum of World Sculpture).
Malraux observed that museums "estrange
the works they bring together from their original
functions and ... transform even portraits
into 'pictures."
Inspired by the time she spent in MoMA's
archives, conducting research on the
Museum's collection and exhibition history,
Macuga orchestrated her own personal
survey, framing the museum as living and
open to reinterpretation and reevaluation.
Commissioned on the occasion of The
Museum of Modern Art's 2019 reopening,
courtesy the artist and Andrew reps Gallery,
New York. Organized by Yasmil Raymond,
Associate Curator, Department of Painting
and Sculpture, with Tara Keny, Curatorial
Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints.