The grotesque in varying degrees is favored, which gives the show something of a buzz, like an aberrant ark.
Eliasson’s that involve an ecstatic experience of architecture. Living creatures are everywhere, whole or in part, real or imaginary, including humans, pigs, jellyfish and horned beetles. The installation proceeds in thematic clusters with certain subjects eyes, for example recurring throughout. If allowed to touch it, you could move through the rooms, and the walls, by turning the pages. The selections range in time from Manet’s 1875 transfer lithograph of a raven (for a book by Edgar Allan Poe) to Olafur Eliasson’s 2006 artist’s book, “Your House,” an ingeniously compressed three-dimensional model of a house cut in cross-sections into the pages of a book. John Bocks untitled 2002 work, with a plastic eye sewn onto paper, is part ofĬontinued on this group show on view through Nov. Although ancestors of today’s museums, wunderkammers were more capricious, with a broader mandate: the goal was to gather knowledge and explain the world not just art through its wonders. The wunderkammer was a free-form collection of all things rare and marvelous: small works of art, exquisite objects made of precious materials, natural specimens, unusual rock or crystal formations, scientific instruments. Suzuki has still relied on too many of the museum’s usual suspects. That’s a fairly eccentric idea for a place as identified with classic modernism as the Modern, but Ms. It has been organized by Sarah Suzuki, one of the department’s assistant curators, and is inspired by the Renaissance wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities. This happens some of the time but not all of the time in “Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities,” the latest permanent-collection exhibition in the galleries of the Museum of Modern Art’s department of prints and illustrated books. New combinations create new ideas, experiences and insights, no matter how familiar the art. A museum collection is like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces have unstable contours they can be fit together in any manner the mind can conceive.
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