Marciano Art Foundation (MAF) offers weekly performances and activations for Doug Aitken’s exhibition Lightscape. The installations also features immersive live music. Concurrently, MAF will present Quaternion by Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon, showcasing functional furniture encouraging reading and conversation. Tickets for Lightscape, Quaternion, and weekly programs started on January 11, 2025. The next one takes place on January 18, 2025. Tickets are available for free online.
If you would like to attend the January 18th MAF event Reserve HERE. See below for additional information on upcoming dates.
Marciano Art Foundation Doug Aitken
Installation view of Lightscape. Courtesy of Marciano Art Foundation; Photo by Michael Anthony Hernandez.
Aitken’s Lightscape explores interconnectedness and our future through cinematic narratives across Southern California and the American West. On January 18, the LA Phil New Music Group presents piano works by Terry Riley and Philip Glass.
Then on January 25, 2025 The Los Angeles Master Chorale will have 8 singers immersed within the Lightscape installation, where guests will be able to intermingle in live performances from the film soundtrack.
Additional Master Chorale performances occur on February 15, while LA Philharmonic activations follow on February 8, February 22, and March 5. Further details will be released in the weeks to come.
On View at Marciano Art Foundation
Quaternion opened on December 17, 2024, and features hand-carved industrial foam furniture reflecting Marciano Art Foundation’s 1961 building’s material and ornamental histories. Three seating ensembles in distinct colors create connections between visitors and library shelves.
Moreover, Transmissions: Selections from the Marciano Art Collection will remain on exhibit on the Foundation’s third floor, spotlighting fifty-six international artists from the collection alongside a selected loans.
Anchored by The Great Silence by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, the exhibition deals with humanity’s constant search for answers outside of our own planet. The Great Silence features an endangered parrot living next to the world’s largest radio telescope asks humanity why it is searching for extraterrestrial intelligence when there are other intelligent species right here on Earth.
Mark Leckey’s Inflatable Felix, a towering lobby sculpture, now resides in the third-floor Lodge Gallery. The artwork reflects the transmission of symbols and icons through time and space. Artists in Transmissions ask why we search the cosmos for life while ignoring art’s profound messages on Earth.
What: Lightscape, Doug Aitken
Where: Marciano Art Foundation, 4357 Wilshire Boulevard, LA, 90010
What: January 18 2025, 2pm
Website: https://marcianoartfoundation.org
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