Moholy: An Education of the Senses

February 10 - May 9, 2010

This exhibition organized by SAIC in conjunction with the Mies Society examines the work of this great designer, photographer, artist, and visionary educator László Moholy-Nagy. It features his fascination with “light” as its central theme. The culminating component of “Living Modern Chicago,” it reconsiders the work of Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946, American, born in Austria-Hungary): the modern artist who brought Bauhaus pedagogy to Chicago. Curated by Carol Ehlers, this exhibition is a celebration of Moholy-Nagy, bringing to life his art and ideas in the community that was his last home—Chicago. It also aims to reignite interest and further investigation of this seminal figure, to engage a wider public with Moholy-Nagy’s multidisciplinary process, and to reveal to a contemporary audience the ongoing relevance of modernism’s life-improving message. Moholy-Nagy’s art and ideas were a revolutionary response to his time. Today we are experiencing another social and technological transition. With exhibition design by SAIC faculty, Helen-Maria Nugent and alumni Jan Tichy, this exhibition means to inspire Chicago with modernism’s great visionary of artistic and social change.

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