MOCA presents Josh Kline: "Climate Change" through January 5, 2025.

 MOCA presents Josh Kline: Climate Change through January 5, 2025.

(WestHollywoodToday.blogspot.com Los Angeles CA) June 23 2024. 

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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Josh Kline: Climate Change from June 23, 2024 through January 5, 2025 at MOCA Grand Avenue. This is the first West Coast museum exhibition for New York-based artist Josh Kline (b. 1979, Philadelphia).The exhibition brings together the major works from Kline’s epic saga about the climate crisis, exploring the close-at-hand ramifications of human inaction on global warming.

Organized by Rebecca Lowery, Associate Curator, with Emilia Nicholson-Fajardo, Curatorial Assistant.                                                                   

 Josh Kline: Climate Change features artworks dating from 2019 to the present and includes the debut of several new sculptures specially commissioned by MOCA. Kline, is known for creating immersive installations using video, sculpture, photography, and architecture. He is distinguished among artists of his generation in his focus on class, labor, and inequity in the contemporary United States.
                                                                               

Climate Change is both an exhibition and a total work of art—an ambitious, immersive suite of sci-fi installations that imagines a future sculpted by ruinous climate crisis and the ordinary people destined to inhabit it. Mobilizing sculpture, moving image, photography, ephemeral materials, and lighting in order to completely transform the galleries of MOCA Grand Avenue, Climate Change is a visceral, charged Gesamtkunstwerk of our contemporary times. In this vision, which could be called dystopian but in truth is terrifyingly near, a catastrophic sea-level rise has inundated the world’s coasts, unleashing a flood of hundreds of millions of traumatized refugees.
                                                                       

“Kline’s work is layered, meticulous, and essential in its clear articulation of the problems of the present day and how they will impact human life in the near future,” said Lowery. “We are honored to have supported the production of several new artworks for this exhibition, and thrilled to share the artist’s project with MOCA’s diverse audiences within and outside of Los Angeles, a city that has played a significant role in the imagination of this saga.”

Josh Kline: Climate Change is accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication featuring original installation photography from this exhibition; an essay by Lowery situating Kline’s work within the nexus of contemporary petro-culture and the towering Hollywood entertainment monolith, itself a direct product of the oil rush of the 1920s; and essays from guest contributors Lauren Cornell and Matilde Guidelli-Guidi. The catalogue is designed by Practise and will be published in Fall 2024.
                                                                            

In conjunction with Josh Kline: Climate Change, and with support from The Manitou Fund, the museum will present public and educational programs exploring climate and environmental justice. The exhibition is also supported by the MOCA Environmental Council, a first-of-its-kind affinity group for a major art museum in the United States, which focuses on climate and environmental justice in alignment with the museum’s mission. As the creative work of artists is pivotal to both awareness and action, the museum’s artist collaborations and exhibitions play an indispensable role in fostering dialogue around pressing environmental issues.

Location: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 S. Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Moca.org