Page 20 - Boca Exposure - December '23

Page 20, Boca Exposure
Boca Museum Of Art’s New Exhibit, ‘Smoke And Mirrors:

Magical Thinking In Contemporary Art,’ A World Premiere

As South Florida’s museums from Palm Beach to Exhibition Highlights. The largest gallery in the exhibition
Miami present their highly anticipated offerings for is transformed by Tony Oursler into an otherworldly
Art Basel Season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is landscape titled Creature Features. The museum has
especially poised to lead the pack with a one-two-punch commissioned several new installations by Oursler,
this year: the world premiere of the Teiger Award-winning exploring what the artist calls the “delicate balance between
exhibition, “Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in creativity, mysticism and scientific ingenuity.” Based on
Contemporary Art,” and the sleek new high-speed rail American folklore, legends, and hoaxes likened to today’s
station just blocks from the museum’s front door. urban myths, viewers will walk into a dream world where
The new group show was originated by Kathleen the artist’s collection of the unbelievable comes to life.
Goncharov, the museum’s senior curator, and features 30 Oursler is one of the world’s foremost pioneers of
contemporary artists. This is the only exhibition in South video art, working with moving images, installation
Florida (and in the entire Southeast United States) to win and projection. His inspirations include conspiracy,
the prestigious Teiger Foundation 2023 Grant Award for mysticism, narrative evolution and facial recognition Imponderable Still 5, by Tony Oursler
Curator-Led Projects (among only 13 museum shows technologies. Viewers are often disoriented and disarmed
selected nationwide in the Single Exhibition category), upon entering his installations. Boca Museum Of Art’s New Exhibit on page 21
recognizing boundary-pushing curatorial work.
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difficult to discredit, are rampant again now. “Our city is
honored by this national acclaim, and that this museum
exhibition is the only one in the entire Southeastern
United States selected by the Teiger Foundation 2023
Grant Award for Curator-Led Projects in the single
exhibition category,” says Scott Singer, mayor of the
City of Boca Raton. “We are proud of the stellar team at
the Boca Raton Museum of Art for shining the national
spotlight on South Florida’s museum scene.”
The exhibition is anchored by an entire gallery of
phantasmagorical installations by the globally acclaimed
artist Tony Oursler, celebrated for asking the pressing
question: What happens when the occult is confronted
by its mirror image of technology?
“The caliber of the 30 contemporary artists in this
exhibition is earning major attention for the new season
at the Boca Raton Museum of Art,” says Irvin Lippman,
the executive director of the museum. “The correlation
between magic and artmaking has always loomed large,
and this exhibition takes this idea one step further,
revealing strong connections between today and earlier
periods in history when crises led to magical thinking.
Art itself is a process of alchemy, transforming physical
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