The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Hans Haacke with Sculpture

Hans Haacke with Sculpture

2005
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The image of President Ronald Reagan staring out at eye level in this sculpture is a photograph of an oil painting created by Hans Haacke.

Description

President Ronald Reagan stares out at eye level in this sculpture; the image of the president is a reproduction of an oil painting created by Hans Haacke, one of the founders of Conceptual art. One of Harrison’s signature painted cement forms seems to be wearing the photograph as a mask. Harrison has gained renown for combining seemingly unrelated objects into slyly humorous artworks. Like Andy Warhol’s Marilyn x 100, also in the collection, Harrison employs an image of the recognizable president to reveal the difference between Reagan the man himself and our deeply embedded ideas of what he represents.
  • Collection of the artist, New York; Greene Naftali, New York; Private Collection; acquired by the CMA from Greene Naftali, New York in 2015.
  • Cattelan, Maurizio, et al., eds. Of Mice and Men: The 4th Berlin Biennale. Exh. Cat. Berlin: Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, 2006. Reproduced p. 158-159
    Rutland, Beau, et al. Rachel Harrison: G-L-O-R-I-A. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2015. Reproduced pgs. 23, 39, 48-52, 65, 121
    Turner, Anderson. “Innovative works by two contemporary artists at Cleveland Museum of Art.” Akron Beacon Journal (July 31, 2015)
  • Gloria: Robert Rauschenberg & Rachel Harrison. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 1-October 25, 2015).
    Of Mice and Men 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (March 25 - June 5, 2006).
    Sculpture New Spirit. Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France (September 10 – October 22, 2005).
  • {{cite web|title=Hans Haacke with Sculpture|url=false|author=Rachel Harrison|year=2005|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.74