Regret missing the totality of Chris Burden's show at The New Museum? You should! (Two days left until it's all gone.) But fans of sterile, angular, Sputnik chic will enjoy the spaceship interior that's moved into the gallery's fifth floor.
The exhibit is part of Museum as Hub: Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, in which the Eastern European art consortium tranzit showcases 65 different artists from Vienna, Prague, Bratislava, Bucharest, and other former Soviet satellites. To the release!
In its structure and design, it recalls future fantasies from the socialist Eastern Europe side of the Iron Curtain and explores the ideological role outer space played during this time. On view in and around the spacecraft will be 117 artworks, including video, sculpture, print, and installation…The exhibition offers an allegory of “anthropological science fiction,” where the exhibition space becomes an estranged and exciting universe that dramatizes the cross-cultural translation involved in the presentation of art. The unique model evokes the challenges that contemporary artists experience in exhibiting works, or that curators come across in organizing exhibitions that stitch together diverse art, selected across generation, cultural context, personal narratives, and time.
Quite.
The exhibition began yesterday and will be on view through April 6.
