Tom Sachs' Nutsy's, a major new installation, makes its European premiere at the Deutsche Guggenheim, in what will be the American artist's first solo museum exhibition in Europe. The installation, which has been specially reconfigured for the Deutsche Guggenheim, is a 400 square metre theme park originally commissioned from the artist by the Bohen Foundation, New York.
Nutsy's is made up of sculptural, audiovisual, and performative elements connected by a roadway running the length and breadth of the installation. But Nutsy's is also an allusion to the incorrigible bricoleur in the person of the artist Tom Sachs. He and his team have dreamed up a chaotically sprawing installation whose elements are culture, consumerism and irony. Security cameras connected to video monitors survey the scene as visitors move around the racetrack, marvelling at remote-controlled model cars zooming past 1:25 scale reproductions of Le Corbusier's architecture, furniture by Mies van der Rohe, and other elements which include a McDonald's restaurant, a 10,000-watt boom box, and a DJ station. Tom Sachs' Nutsy's entices visitors into this complex and chaotic world in which the idealistic modernism of Le Corbusier coexists with the commercial modernism of McDonald's.
Nutsy's is an oscillating set of imagined realities, as Sachs's elaborate installation negotiates European and American, capitalist and socialist, modern and postmodern, utopian and dystopian myths and realities.
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