MCA – Collection: Vito Acconci, The Gangster Sister from Chicago, 1977

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Images of Vito Acconci, The Gangster Sister from Chicago

In a nondescript room are what appear to be five tall movable walls: two blue, two red, and one white. — Vito Acconci, American, 1940–2017
The Gangster Sister from Chicago, 1977
Walls, audio tape, and speakers
Installed dimensions variable
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Restricted gift of Young Hoffman Gallery and Men’s Council, and National Endowment for the Arts Purchase Grant, 1980.67
Photo © MCA Chicago

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Exhibitions

Vito Acconci: A Retrospective 1969–1980Fri, Mar 21, 1980–Sun, May 18, 1980

Video

Chicago Works: Chris Bradley: A Vito Acconci Keychain
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1. Short Someone's left hand holds an odd-looking structure over a white table filled with keys, lanyards, and spiraled keychains. The structure looks like a ladder bent into two chairs facing away from each other.

Collection

Vito Acconci, Convertible Clam Shelter, 1990
Vito Acconci, House of Used Parts, 1985
Vito Acconci, Bridge Chairs for Sex and Gender, 1984
1. Short A pink chair and a blue chair made of out parts from metal ladders sit facing opposite directions, connected in the middle by a purple chair.
2. Long The two chairs on the ground are spaced about five feet apart. The tall ladders that form the chair backs slope toward each other for five rungs until they meet to form a purple ladder-chair platform about eight feet off the ground.
Vito Acconci, 20 Foot Ladder for Any-Size Wall, 1979–1980
1. Short What appears to be an extremely reflective silver ladder appears against a white background. The very tall ladder is vertically divided into eight separate images.
Vito Acconci, The Red Tapes (Parts I, II, and III), 1976
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Vito Acconci, Claim Excerpts, 1971
Vito Acconci, Stretch, 1969