Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago)
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA ) is a 1967 founded the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The building of the MCA was the first project of the German architect Josef Paul Kleihues in the USA.
Prehistory
The Museum of Contemporary Art ( MCA) in Chicago is one of the largest art museums of modern and contemporary art in the United States. It gives a comprehensive overview of the art since 1945 and concludes with his collection chronologically largely on the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The MCA was established in 1967. It initially had its exhibition spaces in the building of a former bakery. Had the inaugural exhibition of the newly formed MCA the title Pictures To Be Read / Poetry To Be Seen, followed Claes Oldenburg Projects for Monuments and Dan Flavin's first solo museum exhibition Pink and gold. The old Museumsgebäube eventually became " wrapped " by Christo. It was the first action of this type of Christ in the United States.
After an extensive competition in the design of architect Josef Paul Kleihues was selected in May 1991, the previously held already the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Frankfurt am Main ( 1980-86 ) and the Municipal Art Gallery and Museum in Sindelfingen Lutze (1987 - 90) had designed. The construction of the MCA from 1994 to 1996. The four -storey building opposite the water tower in Chicago ( Old Water Tower ) was opened in 1996 and comprises a total of approximately 12,500 m², of which about 3,600 m² of exhibition space.
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" Chicago's new museum uses this power. It brings the art back in an envelope, to the top of the stairs to Parnassus and flatters so undoubtedly the artists, as it undermines the contemporary art. The staircase is handsome, and so is the cover. In its premeditated nature and flawlessness of Kleihues'sche design reminiscent of the golden age of architecture in Chicago. The searching, restless desire of today's time, however, he does not try to express. "
Collection
The permanent collection of art after 1945 ( was post) is representative of all decades, usually represented with groups of works the artist. From the 1940s to the 1960s, among other works of Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Alexander Calder, Dan Flavin, Jasper Johns, Christo, Claes Oldenburg, Gordon Matta- Clark and Andy Warhol are shown, which are 1970 to 1990 with Chris Burden, Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman Ben honeymoon period and represented. Of the contemporary artists works by Matthew Barney, Andreas Gursky, Jim Hodges, Judy Ledgerwood, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Paul Pfeiffer and Jeff Wall are seen.
German artists are also included with representative, often large- scale works in the collection, including: Bernd and Hilla Becher (cooling towers, 1983), Thomas Demand (Poll, 2001), Anselm Kiefer ( Banner, 1990), Sigmar Polke, (ash to ashes, 1992), Thomas Ruff ( Portrait Heinz Hausmann, 1988), Dieter Roth, ( Stempelkasten, 1968) and Thomas Schütte with full of great minds, 2004. remarkable group of works "Ice, 1989 " by Gerhard Richter is, however, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Besides the presentation of the permanent collection and changing exhibitions. 1988 an exhibition of works by Gerhard Richter was shown in 1991 a retrospective of Sigmar Polke took place. 2000 was to be seen in the sculpture garden installation by Tobias Rehberger and 2001 by Katharina Fritsch. 2003, the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto was introduced and in 2006 a retrospective of photographer Wolfgang Tillmans was shown.