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The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Unicorn

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  • Special Exhibition
Saturday, September 7–Saturday, November 30, 2013
Location: CMA at Transformer Station
The Bearded Gas, 2013. Shana Lutker (American, b. 1978). Wood, MDF, carpet, foam core, PlexiGlas mirrors, chromed steel, paint, and wire; 168 x 216 x 144 in. (426.72 x 548.64 x 365.76 cm). Gallery Inventory #LUT219. © Shana Lutker. Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer

The Bearded Gas, 2013. Shana Lutker (American, b. 1978). Wood, MDF, carpet, foam core, PlexiGlas mirrors, chromed steel, paint, and wire; 168 x 216 x 144 in. (426.72 x 548.64 x 365.76 cm). Gallery Inventory #LUT219. © Shana Lutker. Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer

  1. À Mon Seul Désir (detail), 2013. Martin Soto Climent (Mexican, b. 1977). Digital print on fine art cotton paper. 108 photographs, digital prints on fine art paper; 9 x 12 inches each, overall dimensions variable. © and image courtesy of the artist.
     À Mon Seul Désir (detail), 2013. Martin Soto Climent (Mexican, b. 1977). Digital print on fine art cotton paper. 108 photographs, digital prints on fine art paper; 9 x 12 inches each, overall dimensions variable. © and image courtesy of the artist. 

  2. Still from Untitled, 2010. Neil Beloufa (French, b. 1985). HD video; 15-minute loop. © and image courtesy of the artist, François Ghebaly Gallery, Galerie Balice Hertling, and Galleria Zero.
     Still from Untitled, 2010. Neil Beloufa (French, b. 1985). HD video; 15-minute loop. © and image courtesy of the artist, François Ghebaly Gallery, Galerie Balice Hertling, and Galleria Zero. 

  3. The Infinite Library, Book #30, 2011. Daniel Gustav Cramer (German, b. 1975) & Haris Epaminonda (Cypriot, b. 1980). © and image courtesy of the artists.
     The Infinite Library, Book #30, 2011. Daniel Gustav Cramer (German, b. 1975) & Haris Epaminonda (Cypriot, b. 1980). © and image courtesy of the artists. 

  4. The Infinite Library, Book #24, 2011. Daniel Gustav Cramer (German, b. 1975) & Haris Epaminonda (Cypriot, b. 1980). © and image courtesy of the artists.
     The Infinite Library, Book #24, 2011. Daniel Gustav Cramer (German, b. 1975) & Haris Epaminonda (Cypriot, b. 1980). © and image courtesy of the artists. 
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About The Exhibition

Participating artists: Neïl Beloufa, Martin Soto Climent, Haris Epaminonda & Daniel Gustav Cramer (The Infinite Library), Shana Lutker

The Unicorn is an exhibition about memory and reconstructing the past. The Unicorn refers to the book (with the same title) by Martin Walser, an author whose work often questions how humans continually reshape the past. The exhibition takes some of the thoughts developed in Walser’s writings as an open-ended starting point and nonbinding reference. The works in this group exhibition assume nothing survives as a static entity, and that memory is constructed by looking backwards from a constantly shifting point. What we call the past is unstable and modifiable. The unicorn as a mythical creature serves as a metaphor for the creative vitality of memory and points to artists exploring the line between documentation and art, truth and myth, fact and fiction.

 

This exhibition will be on view at:

Transformer Station

1460 West 29 Street
Cleveland, OH 44113

The Transformer Station is a new contemporary art museum on Cleveland’s west side, owned by the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation. For six months a year, the Cleveland Museum of Art will present exhibitions with internationally recognized artists, using it as a creative laboratory.

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Saturdays: Noon to 5pm

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