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M-KOS selects a magnificent seven group of booths and artworks at the fourth edition of Frieze New York
Supplement (London, Booth B37) made their debut in the Frame section with a superb presentation of Philomene Pirecki
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Jonathan Horowitz, Your Land/My Land: Election ’12, 2012. Exhibition view: New Museum. Photo: Jesse Untracht-Oakner. COurtesy the artist and New Museum
Jonathan Horowitz
Your Land/My Land: Election ’12
September – November 2012
at various museums in USA
Your Land/My Land: Election ’12, a new installation by Jonathan Horowitz, is currently on view at several institutions in the United States and remains open until after the 2012 Presidential election. The exhibition will run concurrently at several institutions in the United States, including Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, NC; the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis; the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City; Telfair Museums in Savannah, Ga.; and the New Museum in Lower Manhattan.
Reconfiguring an exhibition staged by Horowitz during the 2008 presidential election, Your Land/My Land divides the gallery space into red and blue zones, reflecting America’s color-coded, political and cultural divide. Suspended in the middle of the installation are back to back televisions, one broadcasting a live feed of Fox News, the other, of MSNBC. The exhibition has transformed respective venues into a space for collective reflection and debate on both our political system and the position that cultural institutions occupy within it.
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