MARTIAN MUSEUM OF TERRESTRIAL ART
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FIG 2 SAINT JOHN 2005 Damien Hirst (1965 – ) P8015 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2015.
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FIG 1 JESUS CHRIST 2005 Damien Hirst (1965 – ) P8014 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2015.
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TOWARDS A LEXICON OF PHENOMENA AND INFORMATION ASSOCIATION. AN INTRODUCTORY HOME APPARATUS (PLASTIC ONO BAND) 2000 Mike Nelson (1967 – ) P7334 © The Artist
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FIG 11 SAINT SIMON 2005 Damien Hirst (1965 – ) P8024 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2015.
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METEORITE LANDS ON WORMWOOD SCRUBS 1998 Cornelia Parker (1956 – ) P7324 © Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
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METEORITE LANDS ON THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT 1998 Cornelia Parker (1956 – ) P7325 © Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
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FIG 10 SAINT PHILLIP 2005 Damien Hirst (1965 – ) P8023 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2015.
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METEORITE LANDS ON BUCKINGHAM PALACE 1998 Cornelia Parker (1956 – ) P7273 © (c) Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
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ROZEL POINT, GREAT SALT LAKE, UTAH (1997) 1999 Tacita Dean (1965 – ) P7186 © The Artist
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© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2015. 2005 Damien Hirst (1965 – ) P8022 © The Artist
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art presents contemporary art works under the fictional rubric of a museum collection conceived by and designed for extraterrestrials.
This ambitious, playful and irreverent exhibition features over 100 artists and around 180 works, primarily sculptures along with mixed media, video, photography and works on paper. Artists range from emerging to internationally recognised figures, including Jennifer Allora & Guilermo Calzadilla, Joseph Beuys, Cai Guo-Qiang, Maurizio Cattelan, Jimmie Durham, Barbara Hepworth, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Brian Jungen, Yves Klein, Sherrie Levine, Goshka Macuga, Bruce Nauman, Mike Nelson, Cornelia Parker, Daniel Spoerri, Haim Steinbach, Francis Upritchard, Jeffrey Vallance, Andy Warhol and Rebecca Warren.
This exhibition is partly inspired by the first chapter of Thierry de Duve’s Kant after Duchamp, in which an imaginary anthropologist from outer space sets out to inventory ‘all that is called art by humans’. Adopting a pseudo-anthropological approach, the Museum employs eccentric taxonomies and surprising juxtapositions. The fictitious Martian perspective opens up contemporary art to fresh interpretations and allows for its reassessment from an alien standpoint, thus mimicking the way that Western anthropologists historically interpreted non-Western cultures through foreign eyes. Looking at contemporary art as though from outer space offers the potential to make the familiar strange and to turn the dominant Euro-American art tradition into the ‘other’. It also raises pertinent questions about the use and value of contemporary art in human culture.
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Glossary
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Contemporary
Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.
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Video
Images recorded on videotape or on optical disc to be viewed on television screens, or projected onto screens. The medium through which these images are recorded and displayed.