What we have here then is an eye-catching installation inside an extraordinary building – and you don’t even have to enter the premises to view it.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, is a shimmering polyhedron of mirrored black steel rising four storeys from a hexagonal base to a square top. One of the six faces is clad in transparent glass, allowing an outside-in view of the huge atrium which is currently host to Third Man Begins Digging Through Her Pockets, a large scale spray-paint effect wall installation by Katharina Grosse, extending three floors upwards. It’s the first of a series of works and constitutes a major part of the museum’s inaugural exhibition Inside Out and From the Ground Up.
The MOCA was designed by London architect Farship Moussavi, sitting proudly in the city’s downtown as a beacon of modernity, its faces changing with the light and weather. Costing nearly $19 million dollars to construct and occupying 34,000 sq ft, the space features no fixed collection galleries, allowing it to be used in a myriad of ways.
Photo © Dean Kaufman
Third Man Begins Digging Through Her Pockets, 2012
Installation view at MOCA Museum Of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio
Photos: Tim Safranek Photographics
© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2012
Photo © Thom Sheridan
Photo © Dean Kaufman
Third Man Begins Digging Through Her Pockets, 2012
Installation view at MOCA Museum Of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio
Photos: Tim Safranek Photographics
© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2012
Photo © Dean Kaufman
Photo © Dean Kaufman
Photo © Dean Kaufman
Third Man Begins Digging Through Her Pockets, 2012
Installation view at MOCA Museum Of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio
Photos: Tim Safranek Photographics
© Katharina Grosse und VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2012
