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Premiere: Kings of Pastry
Directed by Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker
Fri, Oct 29 5:00 PM Fri, Oct 29 7:00 PM Sat, Oct 30 1:00 PM Sat, Oct 30 7:00 PM Sun, Oct 31 1:00 PM
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END GAME - British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection
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On view through September 28, 2008 at the Caroline Wiess Law Building
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Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Toxic Schizophrenia, 1997
Chaney Family Collection, Houston. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery
© Tim Noble & Sue Webster
END GAME—British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection profiles the radical London scene, from the revolutionary Young British Artists (YBA) movement of the 1990s to fresh dynamics of today´s avant garde. Installed in the MFAH´s Caroline Wiess Law Building, the exhibition features twenty-one major works by thirteen artists and artists´ collectives, ranging from such established figures as Antony Gormley and Damien Hirst to such cutting-edge talents as Noble & Webster and Dan Hays.
The core of the installation is works by the YBAs, a loosely defined association of painters, sculptors, video artists, and photographers who burst onto the London scene in the late 1980s. They established an international reputation with such exhibitions as the Walker Art Center´s 1995 Brilliant! New Art from London and the Royal Academy´s much debated Sensation, the target of controversy both when the show opened in London in 1997 and when it traveled to the Brooklyn Museum in 1999.
Initially the product of Goldsmiths College´s famous "volatile visual atmosphere," the YBAs transformed the London scene with their irreverent, genre bending, and deeply powerful investigations into contemporary states of being. Six works by the maverick avatar of the movement, Damien Hirst, will be on view, including such masterpieces as End Game, 2004, and The Card Players, 2006, multimedia constructions in which the artist confronts the fragility of life and the certainty of death.
Also on view will be Rachel Whiteread´s Untitled (Fire Escape), 2002, a monumental and ghostly negative stairway cast in plaster; Jake & Dinos Chapman´s hybrid sculpture Chapman Family Collection CFC74378524.2, 2002; and Sam Taylor Woods´ hauntingly evocative video A Little Death, 2002, in which time-lapse photography creates a modern-day vanitas as a Chardinesque still-life slowly decays before the viewers´ eyes. Among the senior artists represented is Antony Gormley, whose Feeling Material XXVII offers a new means of interpreting the figure in space, while Dan Hays will represent the new generation´s fascination with mediated technologies.
This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Generous funding is provided by Sotheby´s.
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Exhibition Tour: End Game: British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection
At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
Friday, August 1, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Saturday, August 2, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Friday, August 8, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Saturday, August 9, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Friday, August 29, 2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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At the Caroline Wiess Law Building
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