2013 Newsmaker: the El Segundo Museum of Art Does Not Disappoint
A Picture Perfect Beginning Can you get too much of Elvis? “Elvis Who?” was held in November at the Old Town Music Hall. Photo by Gloria Plascencia It took the Germans to come in and get it done. Eva Sweeney designed it, her brother Bernhard Zuenkeler curated it, and Eva’s husband Brian Sweeney put up the bucks. That’s a simplification, of course, and Brian isn’t German, but it does summarize the core of imagination, will power, and financial heft that has given the South Bay its most innovative art venue, the El Segundo Museum of Art. That name is slightly misleading, because even before last January’s grand opening the Sweeneys and Zuenkeler were referring to the space on Main Street as an “art laboratory.” If it was vague as to what being an “art laboratory” entailed, we had our first inkling of it last February when, on a cold, windy, and damp morning Michael Sistig’s “Anti-Ark” installation was unveiled on the beach below Vista del Mar and Grand, in El Segundo. Based on three of Sistig’s paintings, and making a statement about global warming, “Anti-Ark” consisted of four large shipping containers placed as if they’d been washed ashore. On one of them lay an emaciated polar…
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