MOCA getting ‘Hell Gate’ before LACMA
It’s official: MOCA gets it first.
Los Angeles artist Chris Burden’s “Hell Gate,” a 28-foot-long, 7 1/2 -foot-high model of New York City’s Hell Gate Bridge fashioned of metal toy construction parts, will be installed Monday and Tuesday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown L.A. in preparation for a show of recent acquisitions by L.A.-based artists that will open April 1.
In an unusual deal announced in January, the huge artwork was purchased by collector Eli Broad from tennis star John McEnroe and donated to both MOCA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to be shared by the institutions.
The artwork, last seen in public several years ago at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, England, was at one time erected in McEnroe’s New York loft and has more recently been in storage.
“I’m looking forward to having it set up; it’s great to have it in my hometown and shared by these institutions,” Burden said.
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Diane Haithman
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