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Rebecca Manson, whose Barbecue installation opened last week, estimates she crafted and composed 50,000 individual ceramic pieces (though the official description credits a mere 45,000).
Manson said she included litter like a Goodyear tire, a broken rake, and lighters as a reminder of what will be left when the leaves have fully decomposed.
Guiltless, conspicuous consumption is depicted in the paintings of Jan Steen, with flesh and fowl spilling onto the ground while revelers laugh uproariously.
“I wanted to interpret that in a contemporary context,” she said, “and thought barbecue was the perfect sort of narrative for that.” Those Dutch scenes may have reminded Manson of her own family’s pig awards.
Milliken became assistant curator at the Modern shortly thereafter, and she came to Manson with an idea to transform the concrete ellipse that had held Anselm Kiefer’s Book With Wings sculpture for years.
A gallery exhibit of Manson’s previous work was on display in the Warehouse in Dallas last year, and one at Ballroom Marfa ran through this March, but Barbecue is her first museum installation, and the first for Milliken.
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