Attempt to Raise Hell
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Jul 12, 2009–Sep 27, 2009 at MCASD Downtown, Jacobs Building
The second in a two-part collection exhibition series, Attempt to Raise Hell follows the presentation of Weighing and Wanting in MCASD’s La Jolla galleries in the fall of 2008.
The exhibition’s title is taken from Dennis Oppenheim’s mechanical installation of the same name—featured in the exhibition—in which a seated, silver-headed marionette wearing a dark suit rings a bell by suddenly hitting it with its forehead. This sense of humor, poignancy, and the unexpected can be seen in many of the works in Attempt to Raise Hell, which features large-scale installation pieces that showcase the architectural spaces of MCASD’s Jacobs Building. Including works by Vito Acconci, María Fernanda Cardoso, Russell Crotty, Lewis deSoto, James Drake, Charles Gaines, Ann Hamilton, and Paul Kos, among others, the exhibition highlights the Museum’s pioneering history and ongoing commitment to showing, commissioning, and collecting installation art.
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The exhibition’s title is taken from Dennis Oppenheim’s mechanical installation of the same name—featured in the exhibition—in which a seated, silver-headed marionette wearing a dark suit rings a bell by suddenly hitting it with its forehead. This sense of humor, poignancy, and the unexpected can be seen in many of the works in Attempt to Raise Hell, which features large-scale installation pieces that showcase the architectural spaces of MCASD’s Jacobs Building. Including works by Vito Acconci, María Fernanda Cardoso, Russell Crotty, Lewis deSoto, James Drake, Charles Gaines, Ann Hamilton, and Paul Kos, among others, the exhibition highlights the Museum’s pioneering history and ongoing commitment to showing, commissioning, and collecting installation art.
Download the audio tour from iTunes.