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MoMA and Creative Time Commission Doug Aitken |
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The Doug Aitken project at MoMA, January 16-February 12, 2007. A Joint Project of Creative Time and The Museum of Modern Art. Rendering, View from 54th Street. © 2006 Doug Aitken.
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NEW YORK.- In a press conference at The Museum of Modern Art, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced a major public art project to be presented at MoMA in January 2007. The Museum and Creative Time, the New Yorkbased public art organization, have jointly commissioned Doug Aitken to create the artists first large-scale public artwork in the United States, which will be the first to bring art to MoMAs exterior walls. Continuous sequences of film scenes will be projected onto seven façades, including those on West 53rd and 54th streets, and those overlooking the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden.
Inspired by the densely built environment of New Yorks midtown, the artist will create a cinematic art experience that will directly integrate with the architectural fabric of the city while simultaneously enhancing and challenging viewers perceptions of public space. The project, filmed in New York City, will be shown daily from January 16 to February 12, 2007, from 5:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m., and will be visible from many public vantage points adjacent to the Museum. It is a joint project of Creative Time and The Museum of Modern Art.
The Doug Aitken project at MoMA
The projection of the Aitken film will provide an artistic alternative to the rapid proliferation of commercial media in the urban landscape. Aitken will reveal the diverse energies and rhythms of New York and will look at the pedestrian experience as one of the many pattern- and rhythmbased relationships seen in the city. Noting that the city is about communication, Aitken responds by transforming the hard-edged concrete and glass language of midtown architecture into a fluid mesh of interacting personal landscapes.
Mayor Bloomberg said, Public art projects provoke thought, create conversation and community, and cause us to look at our environment and our lives in new ways. Weve seen great art bring people out of hibernation, and so our Administration has always looked for bold initiatives in the winter months, when tourism is at its slowest, to attract visitors to our City. Doug Aitkens project is certain to be the kind of exciting artistic event that will do just that and it is this kind of imaginative marketing of our City that has helped bring our economy back.
MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry added, The Museum is delighted to commission Doug Aitken to create this unprecedented work, which will integrate his compelling artistic vision with the distinctive architecture of the new Museum building by Yoshio Taniguchi. In animating the exterior of our building, Aitkens work is intended to resonate with the public beyond our walls and to underscore The Museum of Modern Arts dynamic relationship with the vibrant urban fabric of New York City.
NYC & Company President and CEO and Cristyne L. Nicholas remarked, "In the midst of New York City's rich cultural season, MoMA and Creative Time's new large-scale public art project will be a centerpiece of New York City's winter celebrations. The city's arts and culture community is a vital component of the city's $23 billion tourism industry. Last year, a record 18.9 million visitors included a cultural destination on their New York itinerary, an increase of 10% over the previous year. Unique events like this raise New York's profile as a premier cultural destination as well as driving visitor volume and spending into all five boroughs."
Doug Aitkens project is yet another reason to engage New Yorkers and visitors in the citys dynamic cultural community throughout the five boroughs, said Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kate D. Levin. This public art event will not only inspire visitors to gain a new perspective on their environment; it will also reinforce the citys identity as an exciting cultural center for artists and audiences from here and around the world.
Anne Pasternak, Creative Time President and Artistic Director, noted, With this project, Aitken has imagined an innovative urban art experience that magnifies poignant moments of peoples everyday lives into a grand dialogue between pedestrians and the complex architectural landscape they traverse.
The Museum, in association with Creative Time, will publish a book in January 2007 that will serve as both a document and an extension of the project. Designed by Aitkens studio and featuring critical texts from Klaus Biesenbach, Curator, Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art, and Chief Curator, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; and Peter Eleey, Curator and Producer, Creative Time, the book will examine Aitkens dramatic combinations of structural and narrative devices as well as additional behind-the-scenes material about his creative process.
This project continues Aitkens (American, b. 1968) body of work that explores the evolving ways people experience memory and narrative and relate to fast-paced urban environments. During the past decade, the artist has created innovative contemporary video art by fracturing the narrative structures of his films across multiscreen environments. His work has been exhibited in museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. In 1999, he was awarded the International Prize at the Venice Biennale. In 2004, Aitkens installation Interiors (2002) was shown as part of the exhibition Hard Light at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate. The Doug Aitken project at MoMA is produced and filmed in New York with local cast and crew. The projections will be overseen by Scharff Weisberg, Inc. using Chrystie Digital Systems, Inc.
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