“Re: Collection” Exhibition
Museum of Arts & Design
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The exhibition will survey Chief Curator Emeritus David McFadden’s sixteen years at MAD through objects acquired during his tenure. During McFadden’s years at MAD, the permanent collection has grown from 800 objects to more than 3,000; In the past 5 years alone, since MAD’s move to 2 Columbus Circle, approximately 730 objects that exemplify the imaginative transformation of materials have been added to the collection.
Working in coordination with former Exhibitions Curator Dorothy Twining Globus, McFadden has selected approximately 68 works of sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, and textiles, many of which will be definitive works by key postwar American and international makers.
“Re: Collection” will also explore some of the material and process-centered themes of McFadden’s exhibitions, such as “Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting;” “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary;” “Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art;” “Slash: Paper Under the Knife;” “Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities;” and “Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design.” These successful exhibitions have allowed MAD to reveal how the creative process firmly links formal concerns with social, political, narrative, and autobiographical content. In a cultural moment defined by its openness, McFadden has provided a cogent method for rethinking narratives around the specific possibilities of materials and making. Re: Collection will examine this curatorial methodology, presenting it as a series of personal recollections drawn from the MAD permanent collection.
[Image: Sebastian Brajkovic “Lathe V Chair” (2008) Bronze, embroidered upholstery 39 3/8 x 38 3/16 x 23 1/4 in.]
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Schedule
from April 01, 2014 to September 07, 2014
Artist(s)
Ron Arad, Robert Arneson, Judy Chicago, Vincent Dubourg, Kim Schmahmann, James Turrell, Sebastian Brajkovic, Jennifer Trask et al.