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Project for a Modern Museum, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
© Simon Starling
Project for a Modern Museum, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Project for a Modern Museum, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

Project for a Modern Museum, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

by Simon Starling
Artist (Storbritannien, född 1967)
Date1999
DimensionsPlanets vingspann är 1775 mm, vikt 5000 gram inklusive kameran Video: 26:46 min
Classification
Credit LineInköp 1999 med medel från Gerard Bonniers stiftelse
Object NumberMOMB 307 A-B
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkSimon Starling produced this work in 1998-1999 as part of the exhibition series Moderna Museet Projekt. In the course of the project, a model maker built a radio-controlled model aeroplane equipped with a tiny video camera. The exhibition space included an architectural scale model of Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz's functionalist cemetery complex Skogskyrkogården (The Woodland Cemetery) which was completed in the 1930s. The model aeroplane was used to fly over the cemetery and film it. The film can be seen here. Explorations of models, transformations and circulations relating to our social and material reality are central to Starling's art. His work often takes the form of a process. Selected exhibition history Moderna Museet Projekt: Simon Starling (1998-1999) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall (2003) Malmö Konsthall The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall : [Malmö Konsthall : 8 februari - 4 maj 2003]Simon Starling : Moderna Museet Projekt : 21/11 1998 - 10/1 1999 : [Moderna Museet, Skeppsholmen]