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Focusing on the artist’s series of “regional projects” created since the 1990s, Assistant Visitor Services Manager Sandra Vanegas reveals the “unseen labor” in works by Allan McCollum.
Since the early 1990s, McCollum has explored the ideas of copy and original and how they come to be valued, using popular artifacts from archeological and natural history museums and collective modes of making. This exhibition focuses on a number of these “regional projects,” including The Dog from Pompei (1991), a cast of the famous form preserved as a natural mold in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79; Lost Objects (1991– ), casts of fossilized dinosaur bones; and Natural Copies from the Coal Mines of Central Utah (1994), dinosaur tracks preserved in stone that are, themselves, copies. The regional projects focus on how artifacts become charged with cultural meaning and how collections of objects become vehicles of self-assurance and self-representation.
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Focusing on the artist’s series of “regional projects” created since the 1990s, Assistant Visitor Services Manager Sandra Vanegas reveals the “unseen labor” in works by Allan McCollum.
Since the early 1990s, McCollum has explored the ideas of copy and original and how they come to be valued, using popular artifacts from archeological and natural history museums and collective modes of making. This exhibition focuses on a number of these “regional projects,” including The Dog from Pompei (1991), a cast of the famous form preserved as a natural mold in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79; Lost Objects (1991– ), casts of fossilized dinosaur bones; and Natural Copies from the Coal Mines of Central Utah (1994), dinosaur tracks preserved in stone that are, themselves, copies. The regional projects focus on how artifacts become charged with cultural meaning and how collections of objects become vehicles of self-assurance and self-representation.
Learn more about Allan McCollum at ICA Miami: icamiami.org/exhibition/allan-mccollum
Stay connected: icamia.org/subscribe
Plan your visit: icamia.org/visit
Watch more on ICA Channel: icamia.org/channel
Membership means more at ICA Miami. Join today for expanded access to a world of innovative art and ideas: icamia.org/support
#icamiami #allanmccollum
