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In the period immediately following World War II, artists redefined the language of art-making practice, signaling the birth of movements such as Minimalism, Conceptualism, and process art. "Original Language: Highlights from the MCA Collection" presents key works by artists that span five decades since World War II, ranging from Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, and Jeff Koons to a younger generation that includes Doug Aitken, Laura Owens, and Paul Pfieffer, among others.
Dynamic, bold, and innovative, the work of these artists reveals a set of connective ideas that tap into a universal inquiry about the contemporary world and the nature of human existence within it. Manilow Senior Curator Francesco Bonami conceived the display of the collection, focusing on specific works that illustrate the language of this particular moment in contemporary art-innovative symbols, references and means of expression-developed through the artists' reflection and transformation of both internal psychologies and external influences.
The core of the exhibition is Jeff Koons's Rabbit, a recent partial gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art...