The last day to see Take Me (I'm Yours) - the unique, participatory exhibition on view at the Jewish Museum that allows visitors to touch and take home the works of art on view - is on Sunday, February 5, 2017. On the final day, Daniel Spoerri's sculpture, Eat Art Happening, a skeleton made entirely of sugar paste, will be available for consumption by museum visitors.
Spoerri's sculpture offers a metaphor for life and death: the skeleton is an obvious symbol of death, but is made of sweet sugar and is edible, nurturing life. In addition, small winged sugar phalluses - also representing life - will be given out to mark the last day of the exhibition. (Both works are not kosher.)Take Me (I'm Yours) at the Jewish Museum is the most recent iteration of the exhibition first mounted at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1995 by Hans Ulrich Obrist and artist Christian Boltanski. This version, the first presentation of the exhibition in the United States, is curated by Jens Hoffmann, Director of Special Exhibitions and Public Programs, the Jewish Museum; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, the Serpentine Galleries, London; and Kelly Taxter, Associate Curator, the Jewish Museum. The exhibition features 42 artists, including Andrea Bowers, Gilbert & George, Jonathan Horowitz, Alison Knowles, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Jonas Mekas, Martha Rosler, Tino Sehgal, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.
Visitors are encouraged to share photos of the exhibition on social media using #TakeMeImYoursNYC.
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