14 July 2011 to 20 Aug 2011
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 14, 6 - 8pm
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Patti Smith, The Chair of Roberto Bola�o, Blanes, 2010 � Patti Smith
DISTANT STAR / ESTRELLA DISTANTE An exhibition organized around the writings of Roberto Bolaño
REGEN PROJECTS and REGEN PROJECTS II and kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Regen Projects 14 July 2011 to 20 Aug 2011 Opening Reception: Thursday, July 14, 6 - 8pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
kurimanzutto September 10 - October 29, 2011 Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm; Friday and Saturday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10, 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Regen Projects and kurimanzutto are pleased to present Distant Star / Estrella Distante an exhibition based on the writings of Chilean born writer Roberto Bolaño (b. 1953 - d. 2003). Bolaño's writing ---- lyrical, evocative, transformative, political, and powerful ---- has been a common passion for many of the artists in this exhibition as well as the organizers. The exhibition is partly homage to the writer, and partly an exploration of the timbre and topicality of his works.
Bolaño is the most important Latin American writer, and perhaps writer regardless of birthplace, to emerge in English translation in the last decade. He was widely known and appreciated in Spanish long before that. Dominique Gonzalez Foerster mentioned the celebrated novel Savage Detectives in an Artforum Top Ten in 2007 ---- "I experienced his intense novel as offering a way to understand not only more about my own history and obsessions but also about my relationship to radical art." To present a show of this genre we followed discussions of the writings with artists, friends who recommended other friends, friends of Bolaño's who led us to artists who knew him, notions of concrete poetry, writing, the love of literature, love, and the implied and inherent violence in art and life.
Among others, the exhibition will include Carla Rippey, who supplied the cover artwork for Bolaño's first published book and was a great friend of his in Mexico City when he lived there in the early 70s; Patti Smith, (whose blurb on The Insufferable Gaucho, reads "We savor all he has written as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius"), went to his home in Blanes, Spain, seeking to photograph one object, which ended up being his writing chair; Abraham Cruzvillegas whose work La Barbie roughly references the murders in Sonora as depicted in 2666; Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari's film Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright is a typewritten love story, referencing Eric Rohmer's Le Rayon Vert, as so much in Bolaño's work references the vast canon of literature that came before it.
Participating artists in the exhibition include: Carlos Amorales, Armando Andrade Tudela, Carl Andre, Wallace Berman, Alighiero e Boetti, Martin Boyce, Miguel Calderón, Alejandro Cesarco, Bruce Conner, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Jimmie Durham, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Daniel Guzmán, Rachel Harrison, Jonathan Hernández, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Jaar, Glenn Ligon, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Ree Morton, Catherine Opie, Damián Ortega, Raymond Pettibon, Amalia Pica, Jack Pierson, Lari Pittman, Sigmar Polke, Carla Rippey, Anri Sala, David Salle, Mira Schendel, Patti Smith, Paul Thek, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner and Akram Zaatari.
Opening reception at Regen Projects, Los Angeles on July 14th from 6 - 8pm. And at kurimanzutto, Mexico City on September 10th from 12 - 2 pm. For further information please contact Heather Harmon or Jennifer Loh at Regen Projects +1.310.276.5424, or Amelia Hinojosa at kurimanzutto +5255.5256.2408. Book forthcoming.
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kurimanzutto gob. rafael rebollar 94 col. san miguel chapultepec méxico d.f. Tel/ Fax (5255) 5256.2408 www.kurimanzutto.com
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