Jochem Hendricks, Pack, 2003-2006, Taxidermied dogs, Dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist.

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Take Me There
(Show Me
The Way)
November 25, 2008-
January 17, 2009

Take Me There (Show Me the Way), a group exhibition of contemporary sculpture and installation, features works by 17 international artists including Haluk Akakce, Daniel Arsham, Nathan Coley, Mat Collishaw, Wim Delvoye, Jeppe Hein, Jochem Hendricks, Anton Henning, Alexej Koschkarow, Alicja Kwade, Won Ju Lim, Nathan Mabry, Ian Monroe, Liz Magor, Paul Morrison, Tia Pulitzer, and Ruth Root. The exhibition's point of departure is the hermetic Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499), a beautifully illustrated narrative of a dream within a dream in which the protagonist encounters imaginary works of sculpture and architecture.

Take Me There (Show Me the Way) with work by 17 North American and European artists includes more than ten new works produced for the exhibition, and considers the course of artistic inspiration from the unconscious association of ideas and images to the transformation of these shapeless presentiments to corporeal realities.

Artists and writers throughout history have represented the flowering of psychical, spiritual, and artistic transformation
as a journey from a state of self-awareness to a higher consciousness — a process of revelation which unfolds in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and which is interpreted through works in the exhibition.

Take Me There (Show Me the Way) is patterned after such dreams about journeys driven by physical longing, the promise of transformation, and the quixotic pursuit of the unattainable.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue.

Jochem Hendricks, Pack (detail), 2003-2006, Taxidermied dogs, Dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist.

Won Ju Lim, Kiss T2, 2005, Plexiglas, 17.8 x 243.8 x 43.2 cm, Courtesy of the artist in cooperation with Patrick Painter, Inc., Los Angeles.

Tia Pulitzer, Shaman, 2008, Clay, primer, paint, MDF and wood veneer, 76.2 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm, Courtesy of the artist.

Nathan Mabry, Process Art (Animismsimina), 2008, Bronze and wood, 96 x 49 x 32", Courtesy of the artist and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles.

Wim Delvoye, D11 Scale Model, 2008, Stainless Steel, 157 x 157 x 115 cm, Courtesy of the artist.