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Universal Experience

MCA Chicago Chicago  •  United States of America [US] 11 Feb  • 04 Jun | 2005

Occupying the entire MCA building as well as its outdoor spaces, the works in the exhibition Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye — ranging from large scale installations and sculptures to more intimate photographs and videos — focus on the phenomenon of international visual artists whose work responds to their experience of traveling and living within various cultures. Addressing issues related to tourism that include spectacle, architecture, authenticity, history, souvenirs, and anthropology, Universal Experience will feature work by more than seventy artists including Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Darren Almond, Matthew Buckingham, Chris Burden, Maurizio Cattelan, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Mathias Muller, Gabriel Orozco, Martin Parr, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Thomas Schutte, Simon Starling, Thomas Struth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Piotr Uklanski, and Andy Warhol.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue that includes an anthology of critical texts, color reproductions, and writings about the artworks. Universal Experience is curated by Manilow Senior Curator Francesco Bonami, with Assistant Curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm. The catalogue is edited by Tricia Van Eck, Curatorial Coordinator and Curator of Artists’ Books.

 

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