kurimanzutto - allora and calzadilla in The New York Times

allora and calzadilla in The New York Times

Art Review

I Just Popped Out to Play Beethoven
By ROBERTA SMITH

If you question whether the Museum of Modern Art should be collecting works of performance art, your doubts may be assuaged by the sight and sound of “Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on ‘Ode to Joy’ for a Prepared Piano,” a trenchant, newly acquired work by Allora & Calzadilla, the artist team that will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale. Created in 2008 and first exhibited at the Haus der Kunst in Munich that year, this performance-sculpture-recital-dance piece was an instant hit when it was at the Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea in January 2009.

In its Modern debut, “Stop, Repair, Prepare” is more like a classic. It seems completely at home in the spacious second-floor atrium, looking for all the world like a full-fledged, crowd-pleasing museum masterpiece. Discernibly radical yet also resonating with the past, it offers an apotheosis of various forms of interventionist, appropriation and interactive art, which stretch from Fluxus to relational aesthetics, with many stops in between.

taken from The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/arts/design/10nine.html?ref=arts

Ángel Franco/The New York Times
Mia Elezovic performing inside a piano at the Museum of Modern Art.

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