Simon Starling: The Nanjing Particles
Dec 13, 2008–Oct 31, 2009
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I don’t want to mislead you. Last weekend’s visit to Mass MoCA was not all about LeWitt, although LeWitt is certainly enough of a reason to make the trip. The museum’s vast gallery space is always home to a number of worthy exhibits. The museum complex is permanent host to Christina Kubisch’s Clocktower Project, Natalie Jeremijenko’s Tree Logic, Don Gummer’s Primary Separation and Bruce Odland & Sam Auinger’s Harmonic Bridge. The Kiefer show will be up through October. Even if there hadn’t been anything new, I’d have gone just to see Kiefer again. And the focus of this post, Simon Starling’s The Nanjing Particles is a wonderfully thoughtful, delightfully designed site specific installation that references the history and transformation of the Mass MoCA space from industrial complex to contemporary art museum.
Very briefly because I’m exhausted:
In the 1870s, North Adams’ Sampson Shoe Company, located on what is now the Mass MoCA complex, brought immigrant shoemakers from China Read more »
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