Hallo Zusammen,
aus gegebenem Anlass möchte ich diesen Thread eröffnen, um einmal zu sammeln, in welchen Ausstellungen, Museen oder Kunstwerken man Michael finden kann. Ich würde mich daher freuen, wenn ihr zusammentragt, wo überall in der Welt man Michael finden kann (egal ob dauerhaft oder temporär). Und vielleicht habt ihr noch ein paar Infos und Links dazu.
Aktuell gibt es auf der Biennale des Whitney Museums in New York City zwei Werke in denen Michael verewigt ist. Die Biennale gibt es alle zwei Jahre und zeigt aktuelle amerikanische Kunst und läuft noch bis zum 30.05. Anbei nun die die beiden Künstler mit ihren Werken, den Links zur Ausstellungsseite und Kurzerklärung auf Englisch:
1. Daniel McDonald (Whitney Museum of American Art: Daniel McDonald)
Daniel McDonald humorously blends images from popular culture with dollhouse-scale narrative tableaux to address contemporary social issues. His precisely detailed, three-dimensional dioramas are peopled with toy figurines from different, incongruous cultural sources. In this work, McDonald presents an allegory of the current U.S. economic crisis. American pop-music icon Michael Jackson, wearing garb from his epic 1982 music video Thriller, steps onto the boat of Charon, the ferryman who, in Greek mythology, transports the recently deceased to the underworld. While Jackson offers a coin as payment for his voyage, Uncle Sam, unconscious and inebriated at the other end of the boat, has no money to appease Charon. The absurdity of the scene is heightened with theatrical effects such as stage lighting, a smoke machine, and variations in scale. In this witty melding of imagery, McDonald juxtaposes iconic figures to create a potent satire.
2. Lorraine O'Grady (Whitney Museum of American Art: Lorraine O’Grady)
Lorraine O’Grady’s diptych series pairs images of nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire and twentieth-century American musician Michael Jackson—artists she considers to be “the first and the last of the modernists.” O’Grady maintains that Baudelaire and Jackson, artists separated by nearly 150 years, occupied pivotal positions in their genres and shared surprisingly similar traits, including dramatic flair, aspirations to greatness, unrelenting perfectionism, drug addiction, and ambiguous sexuality. Choosing from tens of thousands of internet images of Jackson to pair with the few available images of Baudelaire, O’Grady represents the two men at roughly the same ages, tracing their trajectories: Baudelaire’s descent from an aristocratic family into poverty and Jackson’s rise to wealth and fame. Made in part to reconsider the life and career of Michael Jackson, The First and the Last of the Modernists raises questions about the roles of art and popular culture as well as how modern figures are presented, flattened, and distributed through the news media.
