Urban Cocktail

Contemporary artists today inhabit a world where distance and isolation have been supplanted by a new era of global connectivity ushered in by both the speed of modern travel and the increasingly extensive reach of the digital revolution. The artists in Urban Cocktail are part of a new breed of cartographers who are interested not so much in mapping the physical territory of this new urban experience, but instead seek to slow down our overheated perception of this brave new world by charting the contours of its heart, its diverse cultures, and shifting social dynamics. The means that they employ in this undertaking are quite diverse, reflecting their enthusiastic embrace of a wide range of surprisingly common materials as well as their attempts to explore forgotten, repressed, or marginalized moments of our personal or cultural history.

Including works by John Bock, Sheela Gowda, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mike Kelley, Jac Leirner, Mark Luyten, Kerry James Marshall, Rivane Neuenschwander, and Nari Ward, Urban Cocktail provides an overview of the diversity of contemporary art. All are artists who carefully craft practices questioning social conformity, history, mass media, and popular culture. The installation of the Walker Art Center's collection is made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

Contemporary artists today inhabit a world where distance and isolation have been supplanted by a new era of global connectivity ushered in by both the speed of modern travel and the increasingly extensive reach of the digital revolution. The artists in Urban Cocktail are part of a new breed of cartographers who are interested not so much in mapping the physical territory of this new urban experience, but instead seek to slow down our overheated perception of this brave new world by charting the contours of its heart, its diverse cultures, and shifting social dynamics. The means that they employ in this undertaking are quite diverse, reflecting their enthusiastic embrace of a wide range of surprisingly common materials as well as their attempts to explore forgotten, repressed, or marginalized moments of our personal or cultural history.Including works by John Bock, Sheela Gowda, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mike Kelley, Jac Leirner, Mark Luyten, Kerry James Marshall, Rivane Neuenschwander, and Nari Ward, Urban Cocktail provides an overview of the diversity of contemporary art. All are artists who carefully craft practices questioning social conformity, history, mass media, and popular culture.The installation of the Walker Art Center's collection is made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

Urban Cocktail
Part of Collection Exhibitions
Kuratoren: Richard Flood, Philippe Vergne, Joan Rothfuss, Siri Engberg, Douglas Fogle, Olukemi Ilesanmi, Elizabeth Carpenter

Künstler:
John Bock, Sheela Gowda, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mike Kelley, Jac Leirner, Mark Luyten, Kerry James Marshall, Rivane Neuenschwander, Nari Ward