A Glass Or A Piece Of Paper: Mass MoCA’s Material World
As we have seen with the move from paper to microchip, the materiality of our communication can be as important as what is communicated. The biggest problems and the simplest solutions can also often start and end with materials. Bearing this in mind, Mass MoCA‘s latest exhibition, “Material World”, engages artists to explore the limits of materials and space with site-specific installations:
The selected artists, Michael Beutler, Orly Genger, Tobias Putrih, Alyson Shotz, Dan Steinhilber, and collaborative team Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen, are known for their innovative investigations of both space and material. Each tend to use a single, simple material in a given work. Over the past several decades, many artists have embraced evermore modest, and even precarious, mediums: Material World will explore the formal—even architectural—possibilities of a range of modest and surprising materials including paper, plastic, cardboard, and rope.
Images by Anaba
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Lisa Baldini is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. As a student of Graham Harwood, Luciana Parisi, and Matthew Fuller, Lisa's interest in technology lies in how culture is changed from the bottom up through history, materiality, databases, user experience, and affective computing. A student of social media marketing, she sees how people try to engage consumers through technology and how much failure is at hand by misunderstanding the medium. A teacher at heart, she writes and curates in an effort to link the knowledge derived between the academic, art, and business worlds.
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| TOPICS: | Arts & Culture, Design & Architecture |
| TAGS: | Alyson Shotz, Dan Steinhilber, Mass MoCA, Material World, Michael Beutler, Orly Genger, Tobias Putrih, Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen |
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