Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

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Guggenheim exhibition audio guide

  1. 06/18/2010

    'la rivoluzione siamo Noi' [We are the Revolution] by Maurizio Cattelan

    Known to avoid interviews by sending a proxy, and escaping his own exhibition openings by stealth, Maurizio Cattelan and his work are complex characters to get to know.

    4 min

  2. 06/18/2010

    Between taxonomy and communion by Ann Hamilton

    Many of Ann Hamilton’s works involve amassing identical or similar objects. Between taxonomy and communion, 1990 – comprising 14,000 human and animal teeth – explores the interconnectedness between human and animal worlds.

    2 min

  3. 06/18/2010

    Untitled (Public Opinion) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres

    This alluring pile of individually cellophane-wrapped candy is known as Untitled (Public Opinion), 1991. Felix Gonzalez-Torres first executed the work in the USA in 1991 as a protest against the first Gulf War.

    3 min

  4. 06/18/2010

    Ameland Pier X, Netherlands and Mummy

    Painter Nigel Cooke and photographer Elger Esser play with our comprehension of their work when viewed from near and far, emphasising the act of reflection, rather than the recognition of location.

    4 min

  5. 06/18/2010

    Archive by Thomas Demand

    Thomas Demand toys with our faith in photographs and the historical events that we remember through them. In Archive, 1995, he reconstructs the personal inventory of Nazi propagandist and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.

    3 min

  6. 06/18/2010

    Easyfun-Ethereal series; Sandwiches by Jeff Koons

    These photo-realistic paintings by Jeff Koons overwhelm the viewer, ensuring, like the advertising world, that there is little time to recognise one’s desires before another product is thrust upon us.

    2 min

  7. 06/18/2010

    The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney

    Masculinity, penetration, escape, ego, transcendence and metamorphoses are just some of the concepts investigated in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle film series.

    3 min

  8. 06/18/2010

    Works by Sarah Anne Johnson and Gregory Crewdson

    The relationship between truth and fiction is played out in this selection of works from Sarah Anne Johnson’s series Tree Planting, 2003-2005, while Gregory Crewdson’s work Untitled (family dinner), 2001-2002, centres on uncanny human behaviour.

    3 min
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