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2018.09.14 13:07
MoMA 파크 맥아더 개인전 'Projects 195: Park McArthur'(10/27-12/16)
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MoMA PRESENTS NEW WORK BY PARK MCARTHUR
IN THE ARTIST’S FIRST SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK
Projects 195: Park McArthur
October 27-December 16, 2018
Floor Four, The Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Gallery
NEW YORK, September 13, 2018?The Museum of Modern Art presents Projects 195: Park
McArthur, the artist’s first museum solo exhibition in New York, from October 27 through
December 16, 2018. Taking shape alongside the Museum’s current building and expansion
project, the exhibition focuses on the social realities and possibilities within the architectural
parameters of site and scale. Projects 195: Park McArthur is organized by Magnus Schaefer,
Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, with Tara Keny, Curatorial Assistant,
Department of Drawings and Prints.
The exhibition comprises works on paper, an audio guide, and a modular, stainless steel
structure that will be rearranged periodically throughout the exhibition’s duration. This
structure doubles as an exploratory design for a multistory, mixed-use building that would
offer below-market housing for disabled and non-disabled people who mutually receive and
provide care. This proposal also includes space for artist studios, a public gallery, and
amenities, such as a swimming pool. McArthur’s exhibition situates this structure in relation to
MoMA’s institutional space and its proximity to the residential building currently under
construction at the west end of the Museum campus. Scheduled for completion in 2019,
MoMA’s expansion project will add exhibition spaces in this newly developed tower, with 145
private luxury apartments above the Museum. Projects 195 continues McArthur’s
engagement with questions of structural inaccessibility and the limitations of conceiving
accessibility solely in terms of physical access, considerations that have informed the artist’s
previous work, including Ramps (2014) at ESSEX STREET gallery.
For Projects 195, McArthur expands the MoMA audio guide to include visual descriptions like
those used by visitors who are blind or partially-sighted. In addition to describing individual
pieces, the guide also provides information about sites in and outside the Museum, such as
the showroom for the apartment complex above MoMA’s new galleries, as well as imagined
features of McArthur’s building proposal. Projects 195: Park McArthur will be accompanied by
a large-print illustrated brochure.
Initiated by MoMA in 1971 as a platform for new and experimental art, the Elaine Dannheisser
Projects Series, now presented at both The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, provides a
forum for the most urgent international voices in contemporary art. While this presentation is
number 109 in the Projects series, McArthur has changed the title number to 195, as the
Museum organized 86 Projects exhibitions before introducing the numbering system in 1986.
This alteration to the title relates the history of the series’ institutional nomenclature to the
future-oriented proposals offered by Projects 195: Park McArthur.
ARTIST BIO:
Park McArthur (born Raleigh, NC, 1984) has had solo exhibitions at SFMOMA, San Francisco
(2017), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2016), Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin (2014), ESSEX
STREET, New York (2014, 2013), and Pyramid Studios, Miami (2009). Recent group
exhibitions include Die Zelle, Kunsthalle Bern (2018), Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel (2017),
2017 Whitney Biennial, New York, Incerteza viva: 32nd Bienal de Sa?o Paulo, Sao Paulo (2016),
Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016), Episode 7, Arika, Glasgow
(2015), Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York (2015), and Greater New York, MoMA
PS1, Queens (2015). With Constantina Zavitsanos McArthur has presented work in numerous
group exhibitions and also co-published articles in Women & Performance: a journal of
feminist theory and the anthology Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of
Visibility.
In 2015 Jennifer Burris and McArthur published Beverly Buchanan: 1978?1981 (Athe?ne?e
Press), which was followed by their co-organizing Beverly Buchanan?Ruins and Rituals, a
survey of 30 years of Buchanan’s work that originated at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for
Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum and traveled to the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
(2017).
McArthur holds degrees from Davidson College and the University of Miami, and studied at the
Whitney Independent Study Program and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
McArthur’s interests include dependency in its many forms, but particularly under the
guidance and instruction of disability and debility. McArthur lives in New York City with Jason
Hirata.
