Invitation for Museum exhibit and donation - The Museum of New Art (MONA) Detroit

[Cecil Touchon <cecil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

WORKS SHOULD BE DELIVERED STARTING NOW TILL APRIL 30, 2001 - EXHIBITION
OPENS MAY 7, 2001 - NO RETURNS

I received a request today from a NEW ART museum trying to open its
doors in Detroit (see below for details). It would be a nice statement
to see artists flood the museum with art works, signed CDs, mailart,
documentation, etc as a form of support and at the same time flesh out
the museum's collection, I will be! Please read the following
opportunity. This is mainly for an auction so BE SURE TO STATE THE
RESERVE VALUE.

"That work which doesn't sell at its reserve, will enter the museum's
permanent collection."

Jef didn't ask for it but why not send a file on yourself as well for
their museum records (resume, slides or photos, articles, whatever you
have on yourself in the form of documentation. It makes good material
for curators to use when looking for artists to fill in the exhibition
schedule. Remember, its a New Art museum so that means raw art is good
too! And there is nothing newer than the international internet
community of artists.
There is no entry fee but why not send a tax deductible cash donation
also, even $5.00 or $10.00 bucks helps a lot!
Please forward this to other lists you are on but DON'T HIT THE FORWARD
BUTTON! 
Copy and paste into a new email.

Cecil Touchon, Director
The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction
Cuernavaca, Mexico
http://ipdg.org/museum/collage/

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Cecil, 

Here's the plea, Thanks for all your help, - Jef @ MONA

There is no other major city in the nation that does not have a
contemporary 
art museum. The founding of a second art museum in a one-museum city is
an 
event of the greatest importance for the entire art community. Detroit
is 
about to test that proposition for the first time.

The Museum of New Art (MONA) is currently working on renovations and
will
officially open its doors to contemporary art this September. To help
fulfill 
this promise, we are organizing an art auction to be held May 19. The
intent 
of the auction is to, yes, bring in well-needed funds for renovation and 
continued exhibitions, but also to create an awareness of the museum and
its 
efforts to bring new art and artists into the region.

The Museum of New Art (MONA) can be another of those two-way bridges to
the
world which any vital community must continue to build. Detroit has
always 
had the great potential to become a major art center. With MONA?s
addition to 
the existing cultural ?architecture? of institutions, schools,
galleries, 
collectors and working artists, Detroit now has the opportunity to meet
this 
challenge.

So, we would like to ask you to become part of an important beginning
for art 
in Detroit and send an artwork for the upcoming auction. We need to put 
together a list of participating artists as soon as we can for PR and
the 
invitation. 

Also, for the preceding two weeks (beginning May 7), the donated works
will 
be hung in the new galleries as an exhibition in itself. This will allow
the 
participating artists to be exposed to a greater Midwest audience and to
add 
the exhibition itself to their resumes. That work which doesn't sell at
its 
reserve, will enter the museum's permanent collection.

If you know of any other artists who might be sympathetic, we'd
appreciate 
their involvement as well.

Warmest regards,
Jef Bourgeau
Director
Museum of New Art

Send art, reserve value of art (art should not be auctioned below this
value), cover letter, and any other documentory materials to:

Jef Bourgeau
c/o MONA
327 West Second St.
Rochester, MI 48307 USA

Telephone: 248-210-7560
E-mail:  nextmuseum@xxxxxxx
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About MONA

    The Museum of New Art (MONA) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt
organization.
    MONA?s exhibitions, programming, and operations are member-supported
and
    privately funded through contributions from individuals,
corporations, and
    foundations. 

    Trustees of our own time and place, the Museum of New Art (MONA)
    will present and examine current art. It will accomplish this as a
collective of all
    the active arts: performance, installation, music, dance, text,
painting, sculpture,
    film, happening, documentary, new tech, video and theater.

Mission Statement:

    A contemporary museum is critical to the understanding of all art.
It does
    this by creating its own space within the given museum
?architecture,? 
not to usurp or compete, but to complete that ?architecture.? It is a
place to 
exhibit our own time. It is a resource for and expression of the present
culture, not 
a reposi- tory for the next. Such a museum accepts and embraces our own
historical
    moment, only then can art have any lasting importance. This is an
ever-evolving
    society and culture, therefore, any contemporary museum must be true
to 
that culture?s most vital expression: its art. 

    MONA will attempt to explore and to reveal this art with an
innovative
    eye, unbiased yet comprehensive; but always, with a museum?s high 
standard of complexity, singularity, and integrity of aesthetic
practice.

March 4, 2001

'The Wrong Show'

BY KERI GUTEN COHEN
Special to the Free Press

"The Wrong Show," at the Museum of New Art in Pontiac through March 31, 
features more than 100 high-resolution digital printouts of art that
might be 
considered wrong -- for any reason. You'll see blurred images,
politically 
incorrect images, old and overweight nudes, nude children, religion
treated 
irreverently, sexual taboos.

Curator-director Jef Bourgeau even includes music and films that were 
considered wrong in their day. He adds a liberal sprinkling of
provocative 
quotations on the walls, and guests are asked to sign a mock legal paper 
releasing the museum from responsibility for the hazards of viewing the 
exhibition.

Culled from Web sites across the world, the assembled images -- mostly 
photographs -- are divided into categories of incorrectness. Some images
are 
graceful, beautiful and meaningful. Others are meant to shock; some are 
difficult to view, and some in a back gallery border on offensive. No
labels 
guide viewers through the images, though Bourgeau -- whose own art was 
considered wrong enough for the Detroit Institute of Arts to shut down a
show 
of his in 1999 -- is there to provide dialogue. 

The featured artist is Jeremy Weiss, a Los Angeles artist and Internet
disc 
jockey. His images combine a sense of humanity with an aloof, isolated
edge. 
In one piece, titled "Hiroshima," he captures an Asian girl in
mid-scream. 
The terror is there on her face, but as we look more closely at the 
background we see that she is falling at an ice rink rather than fleeing 
nuclear devastation.

Bourgeau says this is MoNA's last show at 19 N. Saginaw in Pontiac
before he 
moves into a 10,000-square-foot space in the Book Building at 1249
Washington 
Blvd. in downtown Detroit. He plans a fund-raising auction in the new
space 
May 19 and an official opening in September. For information, call 
248-210-7560. 



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