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Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum receives major gift for new acquisitions
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has received an extraordinary gift from the David Woods Kemper Memorial Foundation to support the acquisition of new works by artists living and working in Germany. This fall, the Kemper Art Museum will present Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art From Germany. The exhibition will feature the first five works acquired thanks to the Kemper gift: monumentally scaled pieces by Franz Ackermann, Thomas Demand, Sergej Jensen, Charline von Heyl, and Corinne Wasmuht. Also on view will be significant works, already in the permanent collection, by Cosima von Bonin, Isa Genzken, Michel Majerus, Manfred Pernice and Wolfgang Tillmans, as well as a major installation, on loan for the exhibition, by Hans-Peter Feldmann. Together, these artists mediate the sweeping and sometimes paradoxical changes that have marked German life in the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as the worldwide effects, at once shattering and homogenizing, wrought by digital culture and technology.
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Tomás Saraceno: Cloud-Specific
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum presents new works that reach for the sky Sept. 9 to Jan. 9, 2012
With utopian ambition and scientific precision, Tomás Saraceno redefines both the built environment and the role of the artist. His spectacular, gravity-defying installations and visionary sculptural models — inspired by clouds, bubbles, spider webs and other natural structures — explore connections between complex social and ecological systems while raising pointed questions about our own relationships to an increasingly fragile natural world. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present Tomás Saraceno: Cloud-Specific. Highlighting the breadth of Saraceno’s cross-disciplinary practice, the exhibition specifically advances his Air-Port-City (2001–present), a wide-ranging technical and theoretical investigation into the possibility of creating a sustainable city-in-the-sky.
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