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MARTIAN MUSEUM OF TERRESTRIAL ART
Featuring Marina Abramovic, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, John Bock, Chris Burden, Spartacus Chetwynd, Christo Jean-Claude, Barbara Hepworth, Luis Jacob, Brian Jungen, Mike Nelson, Piero Manzoni, Andy Warhol, among other artists. Curated by Lydia Yee & Francesco Manacorda, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Lydia Yee and Francesco Manacorda's curatorial premise for the Barbican Art Gallery's ambitious Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art (MMTA) is inspired by the first chapter of Thierry de Duve's book Kant After Duchamp (1999), in which he imagines art as it would be perceived by that most extremely othered figure: the extraterrestrial. The MMTA includes over 100 post-war artists and over 170 works, arranged within the 1970s brutalist architecture of the Barbican Art Gallery. The exhibition's hanging relies on a...
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