A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation at MOCA LA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, mounted a major exhibition titled "A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation," borrowing its name from Charles Baudelaire. Featuring around 300 works by some thirty American artists who emerged since the mid-1970s, the show explored the crisis of meaning in a society where words and images produce an excess rather than a lack of signification.
Key facts
- Exhibition titled 'A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation'
- Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Included approximately 300 works
- Featured about thirty American artists
- Artists emerged since the mid-1970s
- Title borrowed from Charles Baudelaire
- Theme: crisis of representation due to excess of meaning
- Exhibition date: July 1989
Entities
Institutions
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Locations
- Los Angeles
- United States
Sources
- artpress —