Rita McBride
Rita McBride’s work explores the production of public space and the reception of culture through sculptures that recreate familiar elements from our immediate environment. McBride sometimes dramatizes objects related to architecture and design, often through the use of unusual materials and unexpected dimensions. As such, she examines acquired notions of form, function, and material in relation to a vocabulary that challenges the myths of progress induced by modern ideology.
In her pieces, industrialization, mass production processes, and the laws of efficiency are brought up against the role of handmade artifacts and the sphere of the dysfunctional. McBride thus pushes the boundaries and the qualities of the white cube, a spatial modality that is often considered indispensable for the neutrality required to exhibit artworks. Once they have been inserted into these apparently passive environments, McBride's works question the allocation of functions that define and differentiate the museum, domestic space and the urban sphere. —Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
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painted polycarbonate and polyethylene, adhesive foil, metal chain, padlock, engraved keychain
42.13 x 18.11 in (107 x 46 cm) -
painted polycarbonate and polyethylene, adhesive foil, metal chain, padlock, engraved keychain
42.13 x 18.11 in (107 x 46 cm) -
Bronze
55.12 x 30.71 in (140 x 78 cm) -
offset printed in five colors on Fedrigoni Old Mill paper, 300 gr., mounted on wood
38.58 x 138.98 in (98 x 353 cm) -
painted aluminum, wood and fabric
59.45 x 27.17 in (151 x 69 cm) -
carbon fibers, commissioned by the town of Munich
2047.24 x 1259.84 in (5200 x 3200 cm) -
bronze, painted pedestal, wood with inkjet on canvas
8.66 x 141.73 in (22 x 360 cm) -
milled laminate on wood
48.03 x 33.86 in (122 x 86 cm) -
ink jet print on paper
23.23 x 41.73 in (59 x 106 cm) -
bronce and steel
39.37 x 17.72 in (100 x 45 cm) -
powder coated aluminium
7.09 x 4.33 in (18 x 11 cm) -
steel and aluminium
12.99 x 23.23 in (33 x 59 cm)
