les mots me manquent @ MOCAD

Anne-Lise Coste
Parmi les singes et les signes

modèles jeremy
Folk Song

Siobhan Liddell
FAIBLESSE DE FORCE

lisa anne auerbach
Tout I Touch Turns To $ vieux

Carl Pope
La Bad air sentait de Roses

kay rosen
Flou

Tauba Auerbach
Téléphone

jennifer ouest
Quel que soit le film et Ouais Film

Ron Terada
Éloignez-vous des endroits isolés

Martin Creed
Pas de travailler. 336

Sam Durant
A vous de juger que les gens

jonathan moine
Nostalgique de l’avenir

Philippe Parreno et Rirkrit Tiravanija
Les histoires sont Propagande

ryan coup d’oeil
Crypter Crypter Crypter

I was surprised to hear from everyone mixed reviews about this show. MOCAD, being a new museum always sparks heated debate when it comes to shows but I noticed a bit of indifference (or comments under this post). Je, being a text art junky, enjoyed seeing the show and felt that the works flowed nicely and unlike other mocad shows, it was a better number of works compared to other overcrowded or sparse shows of works. I shouldn’t be that surprised though, because text art isn’t for everyone. Some people love text and associating meaning with single words or repeated phrases while others need tactile surfaces and picture planes to get off on. Text art is a tricky thing because while some might say, “oh, it’s so easy to put a word up on the wall and have it mean something grand,” nettement, more thought goes into it than you think. Some text art falls flat and doesn’t give enough info while others give too much diary-like meaning. A standout text artist, Martin Creed, graced the show with “sentiments”, a perfect example of a dialog piece that is so simplistic yet says a billion different things! I end up remembering the works like creed and also rosen, terada and monk while passing on pope and a couple others. En fin de compte, this is what a contemporary museum should be showing to the community: well curated shows with an international mix of emerging and contemporary artists and hey…maybe one of these days they will have curators that will actually visit many of the great detroit artists’ studios here and not just the few artists affiliated with mocad. Oh, a girl can dream