MAM

Between here and there
Modern and Contemporary Selections from the Permanent Collection
Miami Art Museum
June 2010-August 2011


 

“Like Ingrid Calame, whose drawing is seen nearby, Michael Genovese uses marks made by others as starting points for his work. He allows other people to mark his black enameled “scribing boards” sometimes by making them the focus of group activities or by leaving them in public spaces where people inscribe them with graffiti. He then transcribes- in two or three different languages- all the words on the scribing boards, engraving them into highly polished metal “tablets.” Though translation implies accessibility, Genovese purposely records the words in such minute letters that they are unreadable. His tablets thus become paradoxical Rosetta Stones, containing information in several languages yet accessible to no one.” 

These particular scribing boards were made by a group of students in MAM’s Brick by Brick after-school program. -Peter Boswell, Chief Curator, Miami Art Museum

 

BXB-2 (Liberty City X Little Havana, Miami, FL), 2010 Stacked, carved and incised painted aluminum panels, 2 Parts  Crowd sourced group drawing 60 x 50 inches  (Perez Art Museum Miami Permanent Collection)

BXB-2 (Liberty City X Little Havana, Miami, FL), 2010
Stacked, carved and incised painted aluminum panels, 2 Parts
Crowd sourced group drawing
60 x 50 inches
(Perez Art Museum Miami Permanent Collection)

Tableaux #8-3410 (Transcriptions of collected social commentary from Chicago, San Antonio and Miami translated to Polish, Haitian Creole, English and Spanish) 2010 Artist designed codex engraved onto aluminum with mirrored polished nickel plating 36…

Tableaux #8-3410 (Transcriptions of collected social commentary from Chicago, San Antonio and Miami translated to Polish, Haitian Creole, English and Spanish) 2010
Artist designed codex engraved onto aluminum with mirrored polished nickel plating
36 x 27 inches
(Perez Art Museum Miami Permanent Collection)


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