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In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this project Poledna used the notion of iconoclasm and its various historical contexts as a conceptual backdrop for two new works: a 35-mm film installation, co-produced with and premiering at the Renaissance Society, and a substantial alteration to the gallery space: the demolition, dismantling and removal of the gallery's ceiling structure, a steel truss grid that had horizontally bisected the double-height gallery since 1967. This catalogfeaturing a cover designed by artist Peter Downsbroughdocuments the exhibition and its installation, and in doing so celebrates a century of the Renaissance Society.

Mathias Poledna Substance

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      Publisher Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
      Published 1 March 2019
      ISBN-13 9780941548670
      978-0941548670
      ISBN-10 0941548678
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      History of art

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      Book Synopsis
      In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this project Poledna used the notion of iconoclasm and its various historical contexts as a conceptual backdrop for two new works: a 35-mm film installation, co-produced with and premiering at the Renaissance Society, and a substantial alteration to the gallery space: the demolition, dismantling and removal of the gallery's ceiling structure, a steel truss grid that had horizontally bisected the double-height gallery since 1967. This catalogfeaturing a cover designed by artist Peter Downsbroughdocuments the exhibition and its installation, and in doing so celebrates a century of the Renaissance Society.

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