February 26 until April 10, 2010 deutsche version

Artist Rita McBride’s exhibition “Way Out West” shows works created in the context of her sculpture project “Mae West”. In 2002 McBride’s design of a towering 52-meter, carbon fiber sculpture won an international public art competition for a piece to be realized at the Effnerplatz in Munich. The design is titled after 1930s actress and screenwriter Mae West who, in addition to her own accomplished professional activities also garnered fame as a champion of sexual freedom. After several public debates over the budget and sculpture’s formal vocabulary it has yet to be realized in 2010, going against the call for proposals. “Way Out West” introduces the project once more and delivers arguments for a speedy realization of the work.