Liz Glynn, The Futility of Conquest (Cavalcade), 2023, Steel armature with aluminum wire mesh coated in jesmonite, 84" x 72" (213.36 x 182.88 cm). © Liz Glynn. Courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, Promised gift to Mohn Art Collective (MAC3): Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Kristina Simonsen.
Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to share the inclusion of Liz Glynn's The Futility of Conquest (Cavalcade), 2023 in the inaugural exhibition of the David Geffen Galleries at LACMA.
Related press excerpts
The New York Times by Holland Cotter: “Finally, look behind you and you’ll see a big free-standing 2023 sculpture by the contemporary Los Angeles artist Liz Glynn that doesn’t fit in to any category. Inspired by the Parthenon friezes in Athens, it’s an image of two powerfully muscled horses meeting in head-on, mutually destroying collision. It’s titled The Futility of Conquest.”
The Architect's Newspaper by Mimi Zeiger: “Hats off to the curator who chose Liz Glynn’s The Futility of Conquest (Cavalcade) (2023) to greet visitors. A wry commentary on colonization in a museum that is working hard to present a post-colonial narrative, the sculpture depicts the rear ends of three horses. It tells us that history is turned ass-backwards while also suggesting a way to orient yourself in the museum—every direction is all directions and no direction, at once. Faced with gray wall after gray wall, you glance out the panoramic windows at Los Angeles to get your bearings. Custom organza and chrome curtains by Japanese textile artist Reiko Sudõ, however, shroud the glass along all parts of the window wall, washing the view with a homey haze.”