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Indepth Arts News:
"Millennium Messages"
2000-06-03 until 2000-09-17
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY,
USA United States of America
Millennium Messages features the work of a select group of 27 noted artists,
architects, and designers who were invited to create time capsules filled with artifacts
that comment on twentieth-century achievements, values, and issues. Inspired by time
capsules that were buried to coincide with the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs, the
artists were asked to create and fill a container approximately 12 x 30 x 18 inches
with existing or specially-made objects that highlight significant aspects of the
twentieth century. The resulting capsules emphasize the last century’s issues and
achievements from the varied individual perspective of visual artists.
The works featured in Millennium Messages provide museum visitors with a variety
of perceptions about our civilization at the end of the millennium. Arman’s Break in
Case of Emergency is a witty and sophisticated survival kit with the essential
elements for the good life complete with Cuban cigars, fine wines, art books,
champagne, and caviar. Milton Glaser’s Capsule of Capsules holds numerous
eye-catching, over-the-counter pills that call attention to America’s obsession with
relieving pain. Petah Coyne’s capsule reflects the changing role of women during the
twentieth century. Coyne sealed within her capsule such items as a corset, long hair,
and a tiny shoe worn by a Chinese woman with bound feet, in addition to letters
addressed to women artists of the future. Donald Lipski takes a more somber tone in
his capsule by reminding us of the people who died in this century in wars and
genocidal murders. His capsule contains one grain of sand for each of the
210,000,000 lives lost. The artists participating in the show are Benny Andrews and
Nene Humphrey; Arman; Barton Lidice Benes; Constantin and Laurene Leon Boym;
Christo and Jeanne-Claude; Petah Coyne; Milton Glaser; Leon Golub; Ilya and
Emilia Kabakov; Donald Lipski; Hung Liu; Karim Rashid; Eric Rhein; Faith
Ringgold; Karen Shaw; Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith and Neal Ambrose Smith;
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates; Tucker Viemeister; Massimo and Lella Vignelli;
Carrie Mae Weems; and Lawrence Weiner. Millennium Messages was organized by
the Heckscher Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
Service (SITES). The Everson Museum of Art’s presentation of Millennium
Messages is made possible by support from The Post-Standard, Herald-Journal, &
Herald American.
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