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The Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA) is pleased to announce the exhibition \u201eThe Future Is Stupid\u201c<\/strong> the first major survey exhibition dedicated to the development of the renowned British painter Antony Micallef<\/a><\/strong> is dedicated to.<\/p>\n

The exhibition celebrates more than twenty years of career<\/strong> of the artist and unites over fifty key works<\/strong> from Micallef's oeuvre and a impressive new series of paintings created especially for the museum presentation<\/strong>. Together, these works offer a comprehensive overview of one of the most striking and influential painters of the early 21st century.<\/p>\n

\u201eThe Future Is Stupid\u201c<\/strong> was realised in close cooperation with the artist within the framework of a one-year artist-in-residence programme, sponsored by the MUCA Foundation<\/a><\/strong>, developed. It offers a rare opportunity to experience the full range of Micallef's work. Bringing together painting, sculpture, animation and politically engaged projects, the exhibition showcases an artist who continually pushes the expressive and critical potential of contemporary painting.<\/p>\n

The exhibition \"The Future Is Stupid\u201c<\/strong> traces the development of Micallef's artistic practice, from his appearance in the public eye after the Recognised with the prestigious BP Portrait Prize<\/strong> up to his Appointment <\/strong>to the Louis Vuitton Visionary<\/strong> At the beginning of the 2020s.<\/p>\n

In addition to important paintings from his entire career, the exhibition will include a selection of rare bronze editions that have been on display since their creation. Presentation at the Royal Academy<\/strong> were no longer shown publicly in 2008.<\/p>\n

The exhibition also highlights Micallef's wider creative practice through several significant interdisciplinary projects. These include the impressive animated film for Peter Gabriel's song Love Will Heal<\/em><\/strong>, which was organised in cooperation with the Oscar-winning<\/strong> Aardman Animation Studio. The film will be shown in the MUCA Bunker and offers visitors a immersive encounter with Micallef's visual language.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also on view at the Bunker: The exhibition reflects the artist's ongoing engagement with the dynamics of modern politics and also explores the impact of Micallef's widely publicised Trump project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this intervention, Micallef published a high-resolution image of a painting depicting the US president, packaged as a Marlboro cigarette design.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The image was downloaded more than 100,000 times within two weeks, then reproduced and shared at protests around the world, demonstrating the Contemporary art's ability to move quickly in the global <\/strong>political discourse.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Jetzt Tickets sichern Das Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA) freut sich, die Ausstellung \u201eThe Future Is Stupid\u201c anzuk\u00fcndigen – die erste gro\u00dfe \u00dcberblicksausstellung, die dem Werdegang des renommierten britischen Malers Antony Micallef gewidmet ist. Die Ausstellung feiert mehr als zwanzig Jahre Karriere des K\u00fcnstlers und vereint \u00fcber f\u00fcnfzig Schl\u00fcsselwerke aus Micallefs Schaffen sowie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10543,"template":"","exhibition_category":[13],"schlagwort-exh":[],"class_list":["post-10537","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","exhibition_category-aktuell"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAntony Micallef » MUCA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.muca.eu\/en\/exhibition\/antony-micallef\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antony Micallef » MUCA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jetzt Tickets sichern Das Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA) freut sich, die Ausstellung \u201eThe Future Is Stupid\u201c anzuk\u00fcndigen – die erste gro\u00dfe \u00dcberblicksausstellung, die dem Werdegang des renommierten britischen Malers Antony Micallef gewidmet ist. 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