Mike Kelley was key to the thinking behind Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, the landmark exhibition curated by Paul Schimmel for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Now Vice President and Partner of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the museum's former chief curator discusses Kelley's contribution to the exhibition.
An architectural installation based on a written proposal, "Proposal for the Decoration of an Island of Conference Rooms (with Copy Room) for an Advertising Agency Designed by Frank Gehry" (1991) was among the most complex and monumental works Kelley had done to date, broadening both his audience and his reputation among a community of artists.
Built to the specifics of the Chiat/Day office building in Venice, California, Kelley's full-scale model features offensive "break room" jokes painted on the walls of the conference room, which is separated from the "mail room" by transparent glass. Unlike Gehry, who intended to reveal the formal structure of the building, Kelley exposed the inner workings of the agency.
"He thought it was just an incredible gift that these rooms, which had no distinctive quality, the back of the house, inner core, should become the centerpiece for a work that is about as political and agit-prop as anything Mike had done," says Schimmel. "That quality of taking art and turning it around for a political purpose, and a real embrace of the working class, the blue collar, is something that I think was always a part of Mike."
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