As the audience waits for movement, for the performer to stand up, or for them to continue to follow the rules of gravity, they instead experience time and stillness as moments extend and are stretched out on through these living sculptures. A prolific and experimental artist, Zhen’s conceptually-driven practice encompasses a vast range of media and often employs humor, irony, and sophisticated trickery. The work engages notions of the body as material, and in turn the materiality of the body, testing the limits of physical and cognitive possibilities as the viewer tries to comprehend what we see. This particular piece imparts a very powerful experience and I am so pleased that our audiences will get to immerse themselves in it over the coming weeks.” “It is the museum’s second performance piece in the collection and there will be more to come. “This is a very exciting addition to MOCA’s collection holdings, and an example of our new dedication to collecting performance art,” says Amanda Hunt, MOCA’s Director of Education and Senior Curator of Programs.
Xu Zhen: In Just a Blink of an Eye features a group of performers floating mysteriously in mid-air, defying the constraints of physics as if frozen in time and space. The work will be on view at MOCA’s Grand Avenue location every Saturday and Sunday beginning July 27 through September 1. Want to stay ahead of the art world? Subscribe to our newsletter to get the breaking news, eye-opening interviews, and incisive critical takes that drive the conversation forward.LOS ANGELES-The Museum of Contemporary Art has acquired a performance piece titled I n Just a Blink of an Eye by Chinese artist Xu Zhen. It raised more than $3 million in funds that will be put toward general operations. This year’s affair was attended by artists including Ed Ruscha, Betye Saar, and Mark Bradford as well as celebrities such as a Keanu Reeves and Katy Perry. The event has been a subject of fierce debate in recent years last year’s gala was canceled after its honoree, artist Mark Grotjahn, withdrew. Powers’s gift was announced during the museum’s annual benefit on Saturday night at its Geffen Contemporary satellite space. In 2015, he put in place a policy that allowed New Yorkers to visit that museum free for one year.
“MOCA should feel like a public library where you can go and have access to culture.”īiesenbach took over the museum last year after spending more than two decades at the helm of MoMA PS1. “I think many of us are at a point where we understand that museums should not be ivory towers,” Klaus Biesenbach, director of the museum, told the New York Times. Klaus Biesenbach, a guest, and Keanu Reeves attend the MOCA Benefit 2019 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on in Los Angeles, California. The Hammer, which brought in 251,943 people last year, has seen its visitor numbers increase nearly 25 percent since it instituted its own free admission policy in 2014. MOCA welcomed 284,160 visitors in 2018-a meager figure compared to the 800,000-plus visitors that the Broad, located across the street from its Grand Avenue location and free since it opened in 2015, attracts annually. “Charging admission is counterintuitive to art’s ability and purpose to connect, inspire, and heal people.” “Art has the unique ability to bridge cultural and socioeconomic divides,” Powers said in a statement. While the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently enacted a mandatory ticket fee for out-of-towners, MOCA is one of several Southern California museums to go free in an effort to expand audiences. Powers’ donation will cover the next five years, the museum told the Los Angeles Times. A total of $1.3 million in revenue-roughly seven percent of MOCA’s annual budget-came from ticket sales last year. General adult admission to the museum currently costs $15. The new policy, which will go into effect “as soon as possible,” according to the museum, is made possible by a $10 million donation by the president of the museum’s board, Carolyn Clark Powers. The museum announced this weekend that it would no longer require a general admissions fee, although it will still charge for entry to special exhibitions. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles has decided to go free.
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