After the most awesome installation ever and Magritte, another slam dunk exhibit opened recently at the Museum of Modern Art, and again, I took advantage of the membership perks and saw the Isa Genzgen retrospective during member previews. And, 10 days later, I went again during regular viewing, when it was considerably more crowded.
It is the first US retrospective of the multitasking German artist and, well, it is seriously cool.
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| 6th floor at MoMA: 50 % elegant, surrealist-but-so-very-belgian Magritte, 50 % multi-everything Berlin-in-your-face Genzken, 100 % awesome. |
There is so much to love:
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| Mesmerising mirror mosaics to discover your pixelated self. |
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| A fantastic tryptich to totally fit my geeky sciency wine-y bill. |
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| Badass concrete and glass blocks. Substance & form. |
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| Snaps from Ur-metropolis on the floor. Crush the thing with your own weight! |
To be honest, I know very little about contemporary art and, more often than not, staring at certain pieces triggers a huge "WTF, Jasmine?!"*. But sometimes, contemporary art is just plainly cool and all I can really say about it is that I liked it. Or didn't. On a personal, purely aesthetic level.
This particular exhibit is beautiful. And I do not really care about how serious conoisseurs, critics, art historians or art nerds interpret Isa Genzken's pieces. All I care about is that they are cool.
This whole MoMA membership thing is one of the best ideas I've ever had. It seemed like a splurge when I signed up almost six months ago (it was actually one of the first things I did when I moved to the city), but it is well worth it.
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| Genious reminder of how cool it is to be a MoMA member. In a MoMA restroom. |
MoMA does an amazing job at reminding us that, despite everyday unpleasantries, SO MUCH BEAUTY can be found, if only one takes the short trip to Midtown ;)
Cheers to that,
Jules
*inside joke from our lab. Long story short: "WTF, Jasmine?!" is just like "WTF, dude?!", but taken to the next level.
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