Roger Hiorns at Art Institute of Chicago
British artist Roger Hiorns (b. 1975), who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009, has been selected as the next contemporary artist to be featured on the Bluhm Family Terrace of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Modern Wing. His Untitled (Alliance) of 2010 is a commissioned site-specific sculpture consisting of two massive Boeing airplane engines, which have been placed on the terrace in the foreground of the Chicago skyline and Millennium Park. Hiorns’s first collaboration with a major American museum, Untitled (Alliance) will be on view from May 1 through September 19, 2010, and is free and open to the public.