Sentences with phrase «aerospace folktales»

The Columbus Museum of Art presents Allan Sekula: Aerospace Folktales and Other Stories, opening March 17, 2017.

This early version of Aerospace Folktales has not been exhibited in its entirety in more than thirty years.

The exhibition will debut the museum's recently acquired preliminary version of Aerospace Folktales, 1973, a largescale photographic installation, including 142 photographs, a written commentary, and four audio interviews that investigate the artist's own class and family circumstances.

Columbus Museum of Art presents Allan Sekula: Aerospace Folktales and Other Stories, an exhibition that explores the work of the American artist Allan Sekula.

«Works like Aerospace Folktales altered the way in which documentary photography was conceptualized and used in contemporary art, and the work continues to be an urgent model for representing the political and social realities of our world.»

Weems (American, born 1953) began the work while completing an MFA at the University of California, San Diego, where the late artist Allan Sekula created a similar installation about this family, Aerospace Folktales (1973), on view in the historical wing of the museum during the run of the exhibition.

Alongside Aerospace Folktales, the exhibition features a selection of significant works from Sekula's multi-faceted practice between 1972 and 2012.

At the core of the exhibition is the artist's first major work, Aerospace Folktales (1973), an installation that was acquired by the Museum in 2015.