December 1, 2007 -  April 6, 2008

Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century
New Museum New York inaugural exhibition

Mexican participating artists: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Kuri and Jonathan Hernández

Unmonumental is an international group show that proposes a dynamic, new exhibition model by beginning with a major sculpture exhibition then adding layers of collage, sound and new media. The first segment, Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century, presented on all three floors, explores an important trend in sculpture by artists from around the globe who are adopting and reinventing the 20th century vanguard technique of assemblage as a touchstone for the state of our world in a new entury. Redeploying the old strategy of using found, fragmented, and discarded material, their art addresses, the fractures and contingencies of our fragile and volatile contemporary existence in fresh, poignant and sometimes challenging ways.

Organized by the New Museum's curatorial team of Richard Flood, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni, Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century, includes 30 artists whose object are seemingly improvised from common materials, often appearing as if they had been created in basements and garages rather than in traditional ateliers. Fabrication, scale, and permanence have given way to that wich is intimate, provisional, domestic and otherwise overlooked confirming in the words of the curators, "the times demand an anti-masterpiece".

For more information visit www.newmuseum.org or www.kurimanzutto.com
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002

 
The participation of the Mexican artists was made possible with the support of Mexicana Airlines