The inaugural exhibition of the Marciano Art Foundation, Jim Shaw: The Wig Museum highlights Shaw’s (born 1952) career-long engagement with America’s diverse histories. The Los Angeles local used the enigmatic artifacts found during the transformation of the former Scottish Rite Masonic Temple where the foundation resides―stage sets, robes, costumes and wigs―to construct a metaphor for the wig-wearing masonic and judiciary Anglo-Saxon power that is coming to an end.

Jim Shaw: The Wig Museum (Project Series)

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In collaboration with Sigur Rós musician Jónsi, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) conceived a complex installation for his site-specific exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation. Using projected light and the existing architecture of the museum, he created a dynamic shadow play referencing both Los Angeles' history of filmmaking and the gallery's former function as a theater.

Olafur Eliasson: Reality Projector

History & Criticism

Ai Weiwei (born 1957) is recognized around the globe for his conceptual installations that generate dialogue between the contemporary world and traditional Chinese modes of thought and production. Ai’s multifaceted installation at the Marciano Art Foundation includes Life Cycle, a sculptural response to the global refugee crisis, and a series of figures based on mythic creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, crafted from bamboo and silk.

Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle (Marciano Art Foundation Project)

Berlin-based Bolivian American artist Donna Huanca (born 1980) practices a type of femme mark-making rooted in scientific and natural phenomena, Andean futurism and meditative practices. She utilizes materials that have a direct relationship to nature―such as raw pigment, oil, turmeric, sand, hair and clay―as key elements in her paintings, sculptures and “skin paintings,” which treat flesh as both canvas and performative tool. Donna Huanca: Obsidian Ladder accompanies the artist’s first large-scale presentation in the United States at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Describing her approach to the site, Huanca says, “I perceive space as both cohesive and elusive, something that can be activated at several levels. By virtue of their powerful presence, the models facilitate a transitory process that captures and develops the space. The models become a kind of respiratory system of temporality and deconstruction. They sense and feel the space, leaving it changed.”

Donna Huanca: Obsidian Ladder

Moss, Ceci

James, Jamillah

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Jim Shaw: The Wig Museum (Project Series)

Olafur Eliasson: Reality Projector

Ai Weiwei: Life Cycle (Marciano Art Foundation Project)

Donna Huanca: Obsidian Ladder