Matthew Day Jackson Total Accomplishment
18 May - 10 Nov 2013
Matthew Day Jackson
Axis Mundi
2011
Repurposed cockpit of a B29 aircraft, aluminium, red oak, glass, steel, plastic, lead, bronze, iron, obsidian, leather, silver, stainless steel, concrete
373 x 480 x 590 cm / 146 7/8 x 189 x 232 1/4 inches
Private Collection
Installation view, 'Everything Leads to Another', Hauser & Wirth, London, 2011
Image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Photo: Peter Mallet
Axis Mundi
2011
Repurposed cockpit of a B29 aircraft, aluminium, red oak, glass, steel, plastic, lead, bronze, iron, obsidian, leather, silver, stainless steel, concrete
373 x 480 x 590 cm / 146 7/8 x 189 x 232 1/4 inches
Private Collection
Installation view, 'Everything Leads to Another', Hauser & Wirth, London, 2011
Image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Photo: Peter Mallet
An exhibition at the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art Opening: Fri, May 17, 2013, 7 p.m., ZKM_Foyer
With the exhibition “Matthew Day Jackson”, one of the most inventive artists of the younger generation is considered with a solo-exhibition for the first time in Germany.
It is a thematic exhibition in which, starting out from American cultural history, Jackson critically examines the technological occupation of our world from a variety of angles. In his works, he questions the influence of these both on the individual and collectively in various media, and broaches the issue of the complexity of the Western World by dissolving their myths in new riddles. The predominantly sculptural work is characterized by an interdisciplinary selection of themes, encompassing aspects ranging from technology and pop-culture through to art history, philosophy and sport. Jackson appears as one of the first artist-archaeologists to combine in his works historical realities with a fictional search for traces. The mythologizing of his artist-self comprises the center of the oeuvre, which sets in relation physicality and destructive results in human inventiveness.
Curators: Andreas Beitin and Martin Hartung
With the exhibition “Matthew Day Jackson”, one of the most inventive artists of the younger generation is considered with a solo-exhibition for the first time in Germany.
It is a thematic exhibition in which, starting out from American cultural history, Jackson critically examines the technological occupation of our world from a variety of angles. In his works, he questions the influence of these both on the individual and collectively in various media, and broaches the issue of the complexity of the Western World by dissolving their myths in new riddles. The predominantly sculptural work is characterized by an interdisciplinary selection of themes, encompassing aspects ranging from technology and pop-culture through to art history, philosophy and sport. Jackson appears as one of the first artist-archaeologists to combine in his works historical realities with a fictional search for traces. The mythologizing of his artist-self comprises the center of the oeuvre, which sets in relation physicality and destructive results in human inventiveness.
Curators: Andreas Beitin and Martin Hartung