A killer new exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, featuring, among others, Eddo Stern:
"The Hammer Museum’s lobby gallery will be transformed into Game Room from December 1, 2012 through February 17, 2013. The structure and aesthetics of games have long captured the imaginations of artists, inspiring works by Yoko Ono, Gabriel Orozco, Maurizio Cattelan, and countless others in the last half century alone. Human interaction, so central to game play, is a vital component of these artworks, which include an all-white chess set, an oval-shaped billiards table, and foosball for twenty. The advent of digital games has not only cracked open a new visual vernacular but has also created a shift in the dynamic of engagement: though players may be separated by continents, they are connected by the Internet. Or they may simply play alone. The look, the feel, and even the solitude of these electronic games have inevitably played out in the work of contemporary artists, but Game Room purposely returns to an earlier tradition. Each piece included is multiplayer, analog, and intended to be handled by visitors." (Hammer)
Noa P. Kaplan Subsidized (detail) Photo by Marianne Williams courtesy of Hammer Museum
Full details are available here.
Eddo Stern's piece, Moneymakingworkshop (2012) "addresses head-on the detachment that electronic games can create head-on". Intriguing.
LINK: Gameroom
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti
