1/24/2024 0 Comments Moca museum singaporeA new large-scale painting made from terra-cotta tiles, designed by the artist for a previous platform work and produced and hand-glazed in Mexico, literally frames the floor as a painting. Several of the artist’s large, monochrome paintings-made of sections of raw canvas sewn together and thinly outlined with frames of bright color-are presented in adjoining spaces. The hard, glossy nature of the tiles and the hard edges of their uniform grid structure provide counterpoints to the softly textured canvas and curvilinear forms of Crowner’s paintings. This installation invites viewers to engage directly-face to face, visually, and spatially-with the works, which in turn operate like performers on the raised stage, enveloping the viewer in the scene. Inspired by the utopian design of modernist architect Nanda Vigo’s Casa Brindisi-conceived as both a home and a museum for Remo Brindisi’s art collection and as an experiment in the integration of the arts-Crowner’s tiled structure functions as a platform and backdrop for a selection of her large paintings. A raised tiled floor and two tiled walls in the central gallery create a mise en abyme (i.e., a room within a room, as well as an exhibition within an exhibition). museum-features both existing paintings and major tile works designed and fabricated for the show. Crowner’s exhibition at MASS MoCA-her first solo exhibition in a U.S.
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