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Mashup/Modern

ORGANIZER Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign IL

DATES Available Summer 2014

DESCRIPTION Preservationists have noted that the most vulnerable time for architecture is fifty years after construction: the structure is out of fashion but not yet historic. It looms as outdated, not yet historic or nostalgic. The architecture of the 1950s has just passed through this danger zone, and along with the furniture and furnishings of that era, are prized, collectible and even have become the basis for a body of work by artists who, too young to have experienced this design when it was new, largely know of the period through film and family photos. The ideals embodied in the modern movement and its defining clean manufactured forms, often in materials, new at that time, are rich territory for artists to plumb. The work of these artists, most of whom were born in the 1960s, is distinct from the large body of work by artists and designers who adapt modern or quasi-modernist forms as a visual vocabulary or as a style. These artists whose work comprise this exhibition adopt the actual vocabulary of the modern movement to explore issues that question the content of style, past versus present and the meanings of the new and its relationship to history.

ARTISTS UNDER CONSIDERATION John Armleder (CH), Conrad Bakker (US), Mattia Bonetti (FR), Constantin Boym (USA), Kendell Carter (US), Jordi Colomer (ES), Margreiter Dorit (AT), Elmgreen & Dragset (SE), Fernanda Fragateiro (PT), Urs Fischer (CH), Liz Glynn (USA), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (US), Brian Jungen (CA), Terence Gower (CA), Fritz Haeg (US), Brian Jungen (CA), Olga Kourmoundouros (US), Josiah McElheny (US), Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (US), Sarah Morris (US), Edgar Orlaineta (MX), Gabriel Sierra (CO), Jane Simpson (UK), Simon Starling (UK), Barbara Visser (NL), James Welling (US)

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