Spanning the three-decade career of visionary Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez (19482015), The Museum of Modern Art presents Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams, featuring more than 30 of the artists extreme maquettes, as he called them, in which he transformed paper, commercial packaging, and other everyday materials into dazzling, intricate sculptures that suggest utopian possibilities for global urban sites. On view from May 26, 2018, through January 1, 2019, City Dreams is the artists first retrospective and the first substantial monographic presentation of his work in the US. The exhibition includes works from each of the key periods of his career, from early sculptures that take the shape
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