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Exhibitions of 2024: David Medalla’s “In Conversation with the Cosmos”

Exhibitions of 2024: David Medalla’s “In Conversation with the Cosmos”
DAVID MEDALLA, Self Portrait, 1984, mixed media on paper mounted on wood, 144.8 × 114.3 cm. Photo by MM Yu. Courtesy the artist; the collection of Paulino and Hetty Que; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 

Jun 9–Sep 15
David Medalla: “In Conversation with the Cosmos”
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles 

A conjurer of ephemeral performances, the late David Medalla (1942–2020) crafted poetry from the cosmos and engaged in notions of process, impermanence, and change. This major survey traced the artist’s seven-decade-long career, which incorporated photography, drawing, assemblage, kinetic sculpture, and installation, all animated by a peripatetic spirit of experimentation and curiosity.

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