NEW YORK.- Max Lang announces Mrzyk & Moriceau: A View To a Kill, featuring new works and a large-scale installation that will incorporate pieces by Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, among others. The installation will cover both floors of the gallery and will be accompanied by more than 140 individual ink-on-paper drawings by the artists. Both the installation and individual drawings will take the viewer on a rollercoaster ride of the absurd, simultaneously producing both laughter and shock, while calling into question the practice and product of art making, and the experience of viewing art itself.

Mrzyk & Moriceau use a darkly humorous visual vocabulary in their work, from pistol-wielding penguins to knife-toting dogs. The title of the show, A View to a Kill, alludes to an element of anxiety; a sinister quality paralleled by the work itself. The juxtapositions, innuendoes, absurdity and mordant wit of these drawings are meant to create a dialogue with the other artworks, whether it be the repetitious, often sexually charged imagery of Pop Art, or the impressionistic quality of a Nineteenth century landscape painting.

Mrzyk & Moriceau, who have created installations for drawing shows at museums around the world�including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, PS1, the Mus�e d�Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art�are returning to New York for the first time since their residency at PS1 in 2004.

Petra Mrzyk was born in 1973 in Nuremberg, Germany and Jean-Fran�ois Moriceau was born in 1974 in Saint-Nazaire, France. The two met while attending art school in the mid-1990s. Beyond their several solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions around the world, the artists have also produced a short animated video for the French pop band, Air. A View to a Kill is Mrzyk & Moriceau�s first exhibition at Max Lang. A catalogue will be available.