NGC@MOCCA is a three-year partnership between the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA). The two museums will co-organize a series of exhibitions in the galleries at MOCCA, using artwork selected from the NGC's collections. The current exhibition, Cabinet, starts from the premise that "Today's museums are derived from the 'cabinet of curiosities', or Wunderkammer, that emerged in sixteenth-century Europe." Cabinet includes work by Jenny Holzer: three bronze plaques from her Living Series; fluorescent light icons by Dan Flavin, and work by artists Eric Cameron, Walter S. Allward, Michel Campeau, Francois Bonvin, the Toronto-based group General Idea, Michael Morris, Ron Mueck, Richard Gorman, Emanuel Hahn, and Murray Favro. A previous exhibition, November to December 2010, featured two Canadian artists: Kim Adams and Geoffrey Farmer, along with German Thomas Demand.
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