Page 30 - Boca ViewPointe - December '23

Page 30, Viewpointe December 2023
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 Miami at the Boca Raton Museum of Art for shining the national of alchemy, transforming physical medium into illusions of
present their highly anticipated offerings for Art Basel spotlight on South Florida’s museum scene.” beauty, messages that have the power to both inspire and
Season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is especially poised The exhibition is anchored by an entire gallery of manipulate audiences.”
to lead the pack with a one-two-punch this year: the world phantasmagorical installations by the globally acclaimed Exhibition Highlights. The largest gallery in the
premiere of the Teiger Award-winning exhibition, “Smoke artist Tony Oursler, celebrated for asking the pressing exhibition is transformed by Tony Oursler into an
and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art,” and question: What happens when the occult is confronted by otherworldly landscape titled Creature Features. The
the sleek new high-speed rail station just blocks from the its mirror image of technology? museum has commissioned several new installations
museum’s front door. “The caliber of the 30 contemporary artists in this by Oursler, exploring what the artist calls the “delicate
The new group show was originated by Kathleen exhibition is earning major attention for the new season at balance between creativity, mysticism and scientific
Goncharov, the museum’s senior curator, and features 30 the Boca Raton Museum of Art,” says Irvin Lippman, the ingenuity.” Based on American folklore, legends, and
contemporary artists. This is the only exhibition in South executive director of the museum. “The correlation between hoaxes likened to today’s urban myths, viewers will walk
Florida (and in the entire Southeast United States) to win the magic and artmaking has always loomed large, and this into a dream world where the artist’s collection of the
prestigious Teiger Foundation 2023 Grant Award for Curator- exhibition takes this idea one step further, revealing strong unbelievable comes to life.
Led Projects (among only 13 museum shows selected connections between today and earlier periods in history
nationwide in the Single Exhibition category), recognizing when crises led to magical thinking. Art itself is a process Boca Museum Of Art’s New Exhibit on page 31
boundary-pushing curatorial work.
The works in this exhibition crack through the looking
glass of illusion and beliefs. While performative magic is
certainly celebrated here, many of these artists are acclaimed
for tackling the thorny issues of disinformation, hoaxes,
cults, conspiracy theories, “alternative facts,” and the rise
of deceptive artificial technologies in our culture.
This timely exploration pulls back the curtain on modern-
day deceptions, often perpetrated for political or financial
gain before our very eyes. Today’s hoaxes, and the blatant
lies posted on social media, are often fabricated with new
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