Art21 Access ‘07 Events - November 29, 2007
Columbus Museum
Patrick Theater
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906
706-748-2562
Season Four at 6:00pm
The screening will be facilitated by university professors at Columbus State University. The screenings will coincide with the Columbus Museum Film Society events.
Art21 Access ‘07 Events - November 28, 2007
Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts
200 South Madison Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
302-656-6466
Paradox at 12:00pm
Brown-bag lunch event
Allora & Calzadilla’s Apocalypse Now opens Friday at CCA Wattis Institute
The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco presents the exhibition Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War beginning Friday through January 26, 2008. The show is inspired by the Bay Area’s history of antiwar activism and by Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film of the same name. It is co-curated by Wattis Institute Director Jens Hoffmann and Season 4 featured artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. An opening reception takes place this Thursday from 6‚Äì8 p.m.
Apocalypse Now responds to wars around the globe, both past and present, but it also addresses how the language and iconography of war are embedded in everyday life and our broader social consciousness. The show includes works by a number of international contemporary artists as well as a diverse range of cultural artifacts, not all of which are directly related to war per se, but which do, within the exhibition environment, function as tools or even weapons of attack. The show is at war with itself, examining how struggle, conflict, and resistance can be built into each element of an installation. The viewer sees the unpalatable side of humanity, and scenes and situations that repel, while examining how exhibitions can test not only visual but also personal boundaries.
Participating artists: Antonin Artaud, Max Beckmann, Margaret Bourke-White, Mathew Brady, Jacques Callot, Bruce Conner, Leonardo da Vinci, Otto Dix, Ernst Friedrich, Francisco de Goya, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Ernst Jünger, Jon Kessler, Käthe Kollwitz, Lewis Milestone, Bruce Nauman, Pino Pascali, Pablo Picasso, Alain Resnais, Alexander Rodchenko, Martha Rosler, Luigi Russolo, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Serra, and Mark Twain.
Apocalypse Now is presented concurrently with Allora & Calzadilla’s solo exhibition Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech) at the San Francisco Art Institute, on view through December 15.
Read the full press release and view additional images here.
Laurie Simmons interview in Artkrush
Photographer and filmmaker Laurie Simmons has been at the forefront of New York’s contemporary art scene since the late ’70s. One of the featured artists in Season 4 of Art:21 ‚Äî Art in the Twenty-First Century, Simmons makes photographs and films that draw from everyday life, fantasies, and pop culture. Artkrush editor Paul Laster interviewed Simmons after her recent return from a two-gallery exhibition in Madrid.
Read the full interview here.
[via Artkrush]
Art21 Access ‘07 Events - November 26, 2007
Duluth Art Institute
Lincoln Park Site
2229 West Second Street
Duluth, MN 55806
218-733-7560
Ecology at 6:30pm
Screening and discussion. This event is co-presented with WDSE, Duluth Public Television.
Do-Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Do-Ho Suh recently opened his fourth solo show at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York. Do-Ho Suh was featured in Season Two of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century.
On display is the exhibition entitled Cause & Effect, which consists of a collection of large-scale installations and more intimate works on paper.
The fractured nature of narratives, memories and storytelling permeate Suh’s œuvre and invite the viewer to consider his physical and psychological self within the context of the work. In a thoughtful investigation of identity, Suh continues to activate subtle dialogues around space, human relationships, and displacement. Developing the structure of spatial identity, the artist now attempts with Cause & Effect to render destiny metaphorically.
Cause & Effect evokes a fierce tornado: hence a vast ceiling installation, depicted above; a composition of densely hung strands that anchor thousands of figures clad in dynamic gradations of intensely warm colors stacked atop one another, exemplify how Suh’s focus shifts away from identity defined through spatial exploration to questioning that very identity and its origin. Cause & Effect is a physical realization of existence, suggesting strength in the presence of individuals, as it begins to swirl out into adjacent galleries. The work is an attempt to decipher the boundaries between a single identity and a larger group, and how the two conditions coexist.
The vertical context of the figures becomes a collection of past influences, which begin to define the inherent powers and energies that characterize an individual. Thus Cause & Effect metaphorically places the individual within an intricate web of destiny and fate branching from a belief that every being is spawned from the lives he or she may have lived previously.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
540 West 26 Street. New York, NY 10001
The exhibition is on view through December 22.
Art21 Access ‘07 Events - November 24, 2007
Casa Vecina. Espacio Cultural (FCHCMAC)
1er Callejon de Mesones 7, esq. Regina (entre Isabel La Catlica y 5 de Febrero)
Centro Historico, c.p. 06080, Ciudad de Mexico
Mexico
(+ 52 55) 5709-1079/5709-1117
Romance and Protest at noon
Screening followed by discussion with the audience on how they perceive and understand the creative process of each artist as portrayed in Romance and Protest.
Speakers: Ivan Edeza, curator, Artists Projects, Casa Vecina. Espacio Cultural. One or two artists with individual upcoming shows at Casa Vecina will talk to the audience about how their work is related to a theme or the work of the artists presented in the Art:21 series. The event is designed for an all-ages audience.
Art21 Access ‘07 Events - November 23, 2007
Casa Vecina. Espacio Cultural (FCHCMAC)
1er Callejon de Mesones 7, esq. Regina (entre Isabel La Catlica y 5 de Febrero)
Centro Historico, c.p. 06080, Mexico City
Mexico
(+ 52 55) 5709-1079/5709-1117
Ecology and Paradox at 12:00pm
Screening followed by discussion with the audience on how they perceive and understand the creative process of each artist as portrayed in Ecology and Paradox.
Speakers: Ivan Edeza, curator, Artists Projects, Casa Vecina, Espacio Cultural. One or two artists with individual upcoming shows at Casa Vecina will talk to the audience about how their work is related to a theme or the work of the artists presented in the Art:21 series. The event is designed for an all-ages audience.
Jessica Stockholder announced winner of contemporary artist award
Jessica Stockholder, who was a featured artist in Season Three of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century has been announced the seventh annual winner of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art’s Lucelia Artist Award.
Stockholder has created abstract and complex works that combine aspects of painting and sculpture since the 1980s. She assembles various ready-made objects of material culture, adding brightly colored areas of paint that blend with the vivid plastics used in many mass-produced consumer products. Thus, Stockholder transforms simple everyday objects into sculptures and environments that diffuse the boundaries between painting, sculpture and installation.
“The Lucelia Artist Award acknowledges Stockholder’s extensive and ongoing achievement as an artist and celebrates her profound impact on generations of artists worldwide,” declared an independent panel of jurors who selected Stockholder from a group of 13 nominees.
Stockholder’s sculptures and installations have been shown widely at museums and galleries in the United States and in Europe. Her work was included in the 1991 Whitney Biennial and in the 1997 Venice Biennale.
Stockholder is the seventh annual winner of the $25,000 award, which is intended to encourage the artist’s future development and experimentation. Previous award winners include Art21-featured artists, Andrea Zittel (2005) and Kara Walker (2004). Read more about the award here.
Spotlight on Paradox: Catherine Sullivan
Catherine Sullivan was born in Los Angeles, California in 1968. She earned a BFA from the California Institute of Arts, Valencia (1992) and an MFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (1997). Sullivan’s anxiety inducing films and live performances reveal the degree to which everyday gestures and emotional states are scripted and performed, probing the border between innate and learned behavior. Under Sullivan’s direction, actors perform seemingly erratic, seizure-like jumps between gestures and emotional states, all while following a well-rehearsed, numerically derived script. Unsettling and disorienting, Sullivan’s work oscillates between the uncanny and camp, eliciting a profound critique of “acceptable” behavior in today’s media-saturated society. A maelstrom of references and influences -from vaudeville to film noir to modern dance- Sullivan’s appropriation of classic filming styles, period costumes, and contemporary spaces such as corporate offices draws the viewer’s attention away from traditional narratives and towards an examination of performance itself.
Sullivan received a CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts (2004) and a DAAD Fellowship (2004-2005). She has had major exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (2007); Tate Modern, London (2005); Vienna Secession, Austria (2005); Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2005); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut (2003); UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2002); and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2002). She has participated in the Prague Biennial (2005), the Whitney Biennial (2004), and La Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (2003). Sullivan lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
Watch a clip from Sullivan’s Art:21 segment:
About her work, Sullivan says,
“For me, politics is a choice. I don’t live in a world where I’m forced to align myself ideologically with a particular regime or think on a daily basis about where my soap is coming from. So, engagement with these issues is a choice. And my choice is to reveal that freedom and privilege to think about certain things without having to suffer their consequences…My imagination can bring together a lot of very painful things and a consideration of different kinds of consequences. I’ve thought a lot as an artist about what it means to operate with any information I want and with the privilege of using that information in any way I want. If I were to make a different choice, then I would be a journalist…But I’m an artist. I’m interested in these things in an artistic sense. The end result is art.”
(taken from the companion book Art in the Twenty-First Century 4, p. 162).
Read more about her work and watch additional clips on her Art:21 webpage here.
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