The Project Arts Centre will be showcasing their first exhibition from their new Curator, Lívia Páldi, opening on Thursday 31 August between 5.30-7.30pm.
The Museum of Modern Comedy in Art (MoMCo) – A Proposal is either an artwork in the guise of a speculative museum or a museum dressed up as a contemporary installation. Which of the above it will be, is yet to be seen.
MoMCo is dedicated to highlighting, researching and mediating the hidden, comedic aspects of modern and contemporary art. The classical notion of reckless, avant-garde bravado has been largely debunked, not least for its implicit sexism and open Eurocentrism. But the underlying comedic mechanisms deserve re-examination.
For this first exhibition, MoMCo is presented in the form of a tentative historical chart and a series of clay figurines depicting key-moments in bona fide art history. MoMCo is also proud to present Resuscitations, its first temporary exhibition of contemporary art, comprising video works by Agnieszka Polska (PL), Roee Rosen (IL), Sally O’Reilly (UK), Gernot Wieland (D), and Olav Westphalen (D/US).
Olav Westphalen is a German-American artist whose work frequently takes the form of games, entertainment or cartoons. He exposes the cultural blind spots and hypocrisies of the social and cultural contexts he inhabits. He plays both sides of the high-low divide, producing mass-media comedy and cartoons while showing in museums and galleries such as The Whitney Museum, ICA London, The Swiss Institute NY, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Museum Fridericianum. He lives and works in Stockholm.
The Museum of Modern Comedy – A Proposal (MoMCo) runs at Project Arts Centre from 1 September to 21 October 2017.
