museum of new art
EXHIBITIONS - 2014
The Museum of New Art (MONA) currently has locations in Troy and Armada, Michigan. The Armada location is both the heart and the nerve center for the museum. The Troy location operates more specifically as the Museum of Contemporary Photography and New Media. The Detroit location is a pop-up museum and its next location will be announced shortly.
February 23 - April 6
@ the Museum of Contemporary Photography and New Media | MONA Troy
Flóra Borsi is 20 years old and lives in Hungary. She has been taking photos since 2007.
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March 9 - April 27
@ the Museum of New Art | Armada
THE MONA PRIZE:
June – August 2014:
3 exhibitions of Cranbrook Graduates
– one each at each location.
Midtown MONA
Opening reception: June 6, from 6-9pm
“Where are they now?”
explores the relationship between an artist and their studio as well as the institutional support needed to continue producing artwork post-graduation. At the Museum of New Art in partnership with the Galerie Camille, 6 recent graduates from Cranbrook Academy of Art will receive a 12x12ft studio space for one month.
Participating artists include:
Yoroe Lin
Rachel K. Bury
Andrew Schmidt
Daniel Greenberg
http://cargocollective.com/danielgreenberg
Irene Walker
http://www.irenelavonwalker.com
Katie Zazenski
http://cargocollective.com/kathrynzazenski
Every Friday, a working artist, critic, or curator within Detroit will conduct studio visits with the residents.The exhibition will culminate in a panel discussion with the public. This exhibition is curated by recent graduates of the photography department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen and Kate LaPier. This exhibition is a MONA prize winner.
The show will run June 6 - July 11th, 2014 @ MONA 4130 Cass Ave. Detroit, MI 48201.
Exhibition Hours: 9am-5pm
Closing Reception: July 11th, 6pm / Panel Discussion at 7pm
Museum of Photography and New Media|MONA
Opening June 29, 3-7pm
Jared Patton Plock
MONA North|Armada
Opening June 22, 3-7pm
Yunjung Kang
Museum of Photography and New Media @ TROY (all opening receptions from 3pm to 7pm):
Sunday, June 29 to Sunday August 3
JUDI BOMMARITO
Sunday, September 14 to Sunday, November 16
ELENE USDIN
Sunday, December 7 to Sunday, February 15, 2015
Erwin Olaf
Friday, March 13, 2015 to April 26, 2015
6pm to 10pm
ANNEGIEN van DOORN
Sunday, May 2015 (actual date to be announced)
APERTO & THE SELFIE SHOW
Midtown MONA (Galerie Camille):
Friday, September 12 to Friday, October 17
GAO BROTHERS
Beijing-based artists the Gao Brothers have since the middle of the 1980s acquired their reputation thanks to innumerable artworks and projects of a political nature and humanitarian stance. Dissident and controversial, the Gao Brothers are some of those artists who personally experienced the events of the Cultural Revolution, by which they have been deeply affected. Their art develops in the post-Mao era and questions the role of the individual within society, bringing to light social issues and delving into the complex nature of human beings.
Leading the viewer to reflect about the notion of “social responsibility” their artistic creations also become an "allegory of human emotions". Their art is not only a social commentary but it also presents itself as a manifestation of romantic spiritualism and intense human values. Their wide body of work covers a large spectrum of media, which includes photography, oil painting, installation, sculpture and performance
Among the innumerable figures present in these photographic creations the nude plays a major role. Despite Chinese cultural taboos of nudity, the Gao Brothers’ work often makes use of bodies completely or partially revealed. In works such as Echo, Lonely Summer and Black Space the bodies are far from being a flaunting of the nude; rather they are a “laying bare of humanity itself.”
Embraced by urban environments and emerging from dark backgrounds these bodies evoke pure and uncontaminated states of mind, leading the viewer to penetrate the vulnerability of human beings and to explore between spiritual and material spaces.
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Postponed due to ill health
BERNAR VENET