Guggenheim exhibition audio guide Podcast
1) Between taxonomy and communion by Ann Hamilton
Many of Ann Hamilton’s works involve amassing identical or similar objects. Between taxonomy and communion, 1990 – comprising 14,000 human and animal teeth – explores the interconnectedness between hu...Show More
2) 'la rivoluzione siamo Noi' [We are the Revolution] by Maurizio Cattelan
Known to avoid interviews by sending a proxy, and escaping his own exhibition openings by stealth, Maurizio Cattelan and his work are complex characters to get to know.
3) Untitled (Public Opinion) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres
This alluring pile of individually cellophane-wrapped candy is known as Untitled (Public Opinion), 1991. Felix Gonzalez-Torres first executed the work in the USA in 1991 as a protest against the first...Show More
4) Archive by Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand toys with our faith in photographs and the historical events that we remember through them. In Archive, 1995, he reconstructs the personal inventory of Nazi propagandist and filmmaker Le...Show More
5) Works by Sarah Anne Johnson and Gregory Crewdson
The relationship between truth and fiction is played out in this selection of works from Sarah Anne Johnson’s series Tree Planting, 2003-2005, while Gregory Crewdson’s work Untitled (family dinner), 2...Show More
6) Ameland Pier X, Netherlands and Mummy
Painter Nigel Cooke and photographer Elger Esser play with our comprehension of their work when viewed from near and far, emphasising the act of reflection, rather than the recognition of location.
7) Easyfun-Ethereal series; Sandwiches by Jeff Koons
These photo-realistic paintings by Jeff Koons overwhelm the viewer, ensuring, like the advertising world, that there is little time to recognise one’s desires before another product is thrust upon us.
8) The Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney
Masculinity, penetration, escape, ego, transcendence and metamorphoses are just some of the concepts investigated in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle film series.
9) Soft Pay-Telephone by Claes Oldenburg
While many Pop artists maintained the manufactured identity of the objects they worked with, Claes Oldenburg casually undermined them as can be seen in his work Soft Pay-Telephone, 1963.
10) Electric Chair by Andy Warhol
The electric chair, then a common device for capital punishment in America, first featured in Warhol’s art in 1963 as part of his Death and Disaster series.