MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NORTH MIAMI AND
TATE TO SHARE ART WORKS DONATED BY MIAMI
COLLECTORS ROSA AND CARLOS DE LA CRUZ
Magnanimous gift is largest single gift of artwork in MOCA’s history and
includes complete No Ghost Just a Shell project by Pierre Huyghe,
Philippe Parreno, other international artists, and John Bock’s
multi-media installation, Zero Hero
Pierre Huyghe
Two Minutes Out of Time, 2000
Beta Digital, 4 Minutes in Length
(Friday, March 16, 2007) -- North Miami, FL - The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami and Tate, London, are pleased to announce that Miami collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz have made a landmark donation of groundbreaking contemporary artworks that will be owned jointly by the two institutions. The de la Cruz gift includes the extensive project, No Ghost Just A Shell, a multi-media collaboration originated by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, comprised of 17 works by international artists, all based on a Japanese Manga figure named Annlee. The Museum of Contemporary Art will become the only U.S. museum to own the complete version of the No Ghost Just A Shell project. The gift also includes the monumental multi-media installation Zero Hero, by John Bock. MOCA and Tate have established a schedule for rotating these works between the two institutions. In this way, the museums will provide the public with the greatest access to these works.
Rosa de la Cruz noted that the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and Tate were selected as recipients of these works because of each institution’s clear mission to collect seminal works by contemporary artists, and their emphasis on scholarship, education, and outreach.
Rosa de la Cruz stated, “Carlos and I are delighted that two major works from our collection, the multi-media installation, Zero Hero by John Bock and No Ghost Just a Shell, a collaborative project of 17 artists initiated by Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, will become part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and Tate in London. Through these joint gifts we wish to celebrate the enormous commitment that these two great institutions have shown to the art of the 21st century by exhibiting and collecting works that explore new boundaries and new definitions. These important installations will become more accessible to a wider public at MOCA and Tate than they would if they stayed in our private collection. We feel that it is important to continue a dialogue and relationship between private and public collections.”
MOCA Executive Director Bonnie Clearwater remarked, “This is the largest single gift of artwork to MOCA to date. The breadth and scope of this gift is an extraordinary endorsement of MOCA’s commitment to collecting and presenting historically significant contemporary art. These were projects that were high on our wish list. We thank Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz for their exceptional generosity and for initiating this wonderful partnership with Tate. We look forward to expanding our alliance with Tate and strengthening MOCA’s international presence.” Ms. Clearwater added, “This gift comes at a crucial time for MOCA as we embark on a major expansion of our Joan Lehman Building in North Miami.”
Nicholas Serota, Director Tate said, “We are indebted to Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz for this imaginative and generous gift and we look forward to working with the Museum of Contemporary Art to show these powerful and important works of contemporary film and video to audiences in Europe and America. Our existing joint ownership arrangements with American museums have been very successful for works in this medium and we are pleased to announce this ongoing partnership.”
MOCA Chairman Irma Braman stated, “Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz’s generosity and commitment to MOCA is unsurpassed. Since the establishment of MOCA as a collecting institution in 1995, Rosa and Carlos have been dedicated to the growth of MOCA as a world-class museum. They have donated over thirty key artworks to MOCA’s collection.”
No Ghost Just A Shell
No Ghost Just A Shell is a celebrated and ambitious project that engaged the collaboration of 17 artists, and raises questions regarding concepts of identity, authenticity, originality, and ownership. The project originated in 1999 when Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno bought the copyright image for a Japanese animation (Manga) character named Annlee from the Japanese agency Kworks, which developed figures for cartoons, advertising and video games. Because Annlee had few of the sophisticated qualities of more complex Manga figures, she was likely to disappear very quickly from the animation scene. Huyghe and Parreno’s purchase of Annlee and their invitation to a group of international artists to appropriate the character and bring her to life via a series of multi-media art works, rescued Annlee from extinction.
Huyghe and Parreno eventually terminated Annlee and prohibited artists from ever creating future works from her digital image. The termination culminated with a staged fireworks display in Miami during the 2002 Art Basel Miami Beach fair, an event in Miami in which Annlee went out in a blaze of glory.
MOCA and Tate now jointly hold the only complete version outside the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, thanks to the extraordinary generosity and foresight of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz.
Zero Hero
The installation Zero Hero, 2003-2005, by John Bock, was originally presented at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Bock, who was born in 1965 near Hamburg, Germany and currently lives in Berlin, is one of the most celebrated German artists to emerge during the 1990s. In Zero Hero, Bock creates his own interpretation of the uncanny life of Kaspar Hauser, a teenage boy who mysteriously appeared on the streets of Nuremberg, Germany in 1828 after years of sensory deprivation. The multi-media installation served as a set for a performance by Bock. The work was presented by the Moore Loft, a non-profit warehouse space in Miami funded by Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz during 2006-2007. Bock’s work has been presented in exhibitions around the world including solo presentations at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2003. His numerous group exhibitions include the Venice Biennales in 1998 and 2003, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 2004, Manifesta 5, Sebastian, 2004, and Documenta 11, Kassel, 2002.
MOCA and Tate
MOCA’s Executive Director Bonnie Clearwater has previously collaborated with the Tate. As curator of the Mark Rothko Foundation, she assisted Tate curators in organizing the Mark Rothko retrospective in 1988 and was a contributing author to its exhibition catalog. Her recent monograph, The Rothko Book was published by Tate Publishing in 2006. Tate Modern Senior Curator Frances Morris organized the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time, which was presented at MOCA in 2005, and she lectured on Bourgeois’s life and work at the museum in conjunction with the exhibition.
De la Cruz Gift:
No Ghost Just A Shell:
Pierre Huyghe
One Million Kingdom, 2001
Animated film sound 6 minutes
Edition of 6 + 2 APs; edition AP 1
Pierre Huyghe
Two Minutes Out of Time - Ann Lee, 2000
Video with sound
4 min 09
Edition of 4 + 1 AP edition AP 1
Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno ( collaboration)
Skin of Light, 2001
Neon, Transformer
31 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches
Edition 1 of 12 + 4 AP
Philippe Parreno
Anywhere Out of the World, 2000
3D animation film transferred to Beta digital
4 minutes, 5.1 surround sound system
2 DVDs, Artist Proof 2 of 2
Philippe Parreno
Untitled, 2003 (fireworks)
Pigment print 29 x 42 on paper
Edition 1 of 12
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Untitled, 2002 (ghost reader C. H.), 2002
3D animation transferred on Betacam Digital, video approximately 11 hours , in color with sound.
Edition 2 of 4 + 3 APs
Melik Ohanian
Ann Lee, I'm dreaming about a reality, 2002
DVD music by Varou Jan
Edition 5 of 6 + 2 APs
Liam Gillick
Ann Lee You Proposes, 2001
3D animation films transferred onto Digital Betacam
3 films synch, each 2.58 minutes, color, sound.
Edition 2 of 4 + 2 APs
Francois Curlet
Witness Screen/Écran Témoin, 2002
16 mm and 3D animation film 5.31 minutes color transferred onto Digital Betacam
Posters made by M/M, 2002
Edition 4 of 8 + 1AP
Pierre Joseph and Mehdi Belhaj- Kacem
Trickster Theory, 2002
3D animation movie transferred onto Digital Betacam
36 minutes color sound
Edition 4 of 8 + 1 AP
Posters by M/M , 2002
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Annlee in Anzen Zone, 2000
1 DVD Pal 1 backup elements 1 DVD RAM floppy master 1 Digital Betacam, drawings of work in progress
Artist AP
Posters by M/M, 2001
Joe Scanlan
Last Call Do-It Yourself (Annlee), 2002
IKEA furniture parts, plastic vases, fresh flowers
15 copies DIY book: offset ink on paper
arrangements and dimensions variable
Angela Bulloch and Imke Wagener
Ann Lee Konnektikit, 2002
Lunaphon - Polypop (10 pieces of different size), Chiffrevue materials Polystrol Styrofoam, filler, white and glossy lacquer, batteries, solarcell, acrylic glass.
Edition 1 of 3 + 1AP
Lili Fleury
A Worm in an Apple, 2002
presentation box with two signed books plus 48 books
Edition 2 of 2
Anna Lena Vaney
Asleep in the Deep Ann Lee No Ghost Just a Shell
40 LPs and CDs
Richard Phillips
Annlee Afterlife, 2003
oil on linen, 108 x 80 inches
M/M Paris
The M/M wallpaper posters (Miami colors), 2003
Color silkscreened posters on paper dimensions variable+ 1 CD rom for making copies
Posters of AnnLee, No Ghost Just a Shell, 2000
Zero Hero
John Bock
Zero Hero, 2003-2005
Installation out of mixed media and
5 x DVD master copies: Digital Video
5 x DVD exhibition copies: Digital Video
5 x DVD Digital Betacams
Dimensions variable
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art opened its Joan Lehman Building (770 NE 125th Street) in North Miami, Florida in 1996. The museum was designed by the internationally acclaimed architect Charles Gwathmey of Gwathmey-Siegel, New York, who worked in conjunction with the Miami firm of Gelabert-Navia to create an exquisite space in which to experience art. The museum is a site for discovering new artists, contemplating our living cultural heritage, and is known for its provocative and innovative exhibitions and public and educational programming.
MOCA’s permanent collection reflects significant artistic developments in contemporary art by emerging and established artists from the U.S. and abroad. The museum acquires works through donations and also purchases works with funds donated specifically for acquiring art. MOCA has made the collection and exhibition of installation art, video and film a special focus of its permanent collection. Among the major works that have been donated to MOCA’s permanent collection are the mixed media installations: Diorama, 1997, by Thomas Hirschhorn, gift of the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation; Cargo Cult, 2005 by Jose Bedia, purchased with funds provided by Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and Diane and Robert Moss, Untitled (Pool), 1996, by Teresita Fernandez, gift of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, More Moor Morals and Morass, 1994, by Jason Rhoades, gift of Eileen and Peter Norton, and Jennifer Steinkamp’s video projection installation, Smokescreen, 1995-2004, gift of the artist.
In December 2005, the Museum of Contemporary Art opened a satellite exhibition and art warehouse space, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, in the Wynwood Arts and Entertainment District of Miami (404 NW 26th Street).
The Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami FL 33161. For information about the Museum of Contemporary Art, please call 305.893.6211 or visit www.mocanomi.org
Exhibitions and programs at MOCA are made possible through grants from the City of North Miami, the Florida Arts Council, the Department of State, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners. The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is accredited by the American Association of Museums
Tate
Tate Modern is Britain’s national museum of modern art. It displays the National Collection of international modern art from 1900 to the present, which includes major works by Dalì, Rothko, Beuys, Rothko, Picasso, Matisse, and Warhol as well as work by contemporary artists such as Sarah Lucas, Mona Hatoum, Rachel Whiteread, Martin Creed, Bruce Nauman and Anselm Kiefer. Housed in the former Bankside Power Station in Southwark, London, Tate Modern opened on 11 May 2000 and welcomes approximately 4 million visitors each year.
Tate houses the national collections of British art (including the Turner Collection) and international art from 1900 on. The Collection is a central resource from which the four Tate galleries, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives, draw their displays and some works for exhibitions. While each gallery has a specific remit and focus, most of the Collection can be seen at any of the galleries. The Collection numbers over 60,000 items. The permanent collection is displayed free of charge at Tate Liverpool, Tate Modern and Tate Britain. There is a small entrance charge at Tate St Ives. All four galleries run a programme of temporary exhibitions. Tate is committed to sharing the Collection with other galleries and museums so that a larger number of people nationally and internationally can enjoy the works of art in its care.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Donna Fields, Director of Communications, 305.893.6211, dfields@mocanomi.org
Tate
Ruth Findlay/Jenny Lea, Tate Press Office
Call 020 7887 8741/4942 or fax 020 7887 8729, pressoffice@tate.org.uk
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