Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt: The Absent City
August 2–November 16, 2008
Miami-based artists Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt, who were trained as architects in Argentina, will create a three-part installation in MMoCA’s lobby and State Street Gallery. A curtain of ribbons in the museum’s glass icon will be complemented by a salon-like “reading room” with two-dimensional works and furniture in the museum’s lobby. The third work, an installation of ribbons in the State Street Gallery, will be arranged in trapezoidal conglomerations to recreate the organic layout of a medieval city.
Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt: The Absent City is organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. more >>
George Segal, Depression Bread Line, 1991. Bronze, 108 x 148 x 36 inches. Collection Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. © The George and Helen Segal Foundation/ licensed by VAGA, New York. Gift of The George and Helen Segal Foundation with funds for casting provided by Bill and Jan DeAtley, James and Sylvia Vaccaro, a major grant from the Madison Community Foundation, Jim and Cathie Burgess, the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, the Overture Foundation, and Tom and Martha Carter.
George Segal: Street Scenes
September 13-December 28, 2008
George Segal: Street Scenes will showcase the work of this noted American sculptor for a new generation of museum visitors. Segal (1924-2000) is widely recognized as one of the great American sculptors. He used plaster, found objects, and an innovative working process to make his large-scale sculptures. Focusing on human interactions and everyday events in the urban setting, the exhibition includes works from the 1960s, when Segal first began using plaster, to the 1980s and 1990s, as he documented the effects of economic change on urban environments.
This exhibition is organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and will be installed in MMoCA’s main galleries. After opening at MMoCA, George Segal: Street Scenes will travel to the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor.