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SculptureCenter: Time Again - 9 May 2011 to 25 July 2011 Current Exhibition |
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William E. Jones, Berlin Flash Frames, 2010
Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery |
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Time Again May 9 - July 25, 2011 Opening Reception: Sunday, May 8, 5-7pm Richard Aldrich, Manon de Boer, Troy Brauntuch, Matthew Buckingham, Moyra Davey, Thea Djordjadze, Aurilien Froment, Rachel Harrison, Charline von Heyl, Ull Hohn, William E. Jones, Elad Lassry, Rosalind Nashashibi, Blinky Palermo, Laure Prouvost, Steve Roden, Emily Roysdon, and Rosemarie Trockel Novel with Ed Atkins, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Steven Claydon, Sergej Jensen, Sam Lewitt, R.H. Quaytman, Josef Strau, and Paul Thek SculptureCenter is pleased to present Time Again, an exhibition that explores the language of repetition, bringing together works that destabilize conventional ways of seeing and considering what is past and what is present. Engaging gesture, image sequence, material affect, and displaced narrative, the works on view create disjunctions with the way the time of the present is experienced, challenging our understanding of what it means to be contemporaries. Curated by Fionn Meade, Time Again will be on view May 9 - July 25, 2011. An opening reception will take place Sunday, May 8th, 5-7pm and is open to the public. Within the exhibition, archival and historical settings are re-animated only to be undone, including William E. Jones's video Berlin Flash Frames, 2010, which parcels out footage from an unedited film produced by the U.S. Information Agency found in the National Archives of the United States labeled with the provisional title "Berlin, 1961". Jones's re-edit features distanced shots of the Berlin Wall under construction alongside propagandistic scenarios featuring actors on stage sets. Similarly, Emily Roysdon's Untitled (David Wojnarowicz Project), 2001-2007, responds to and redirects Wojnarowicz's earlier work Arthur Rimbaud in New York, 1978-79, while an excerpt from Marc Camille Chaimowicz's Shoe Waste?, 1971-2005, returns to documentation of a clandestine action performed above and beneath the River Thames in London. Additional works to be exhibited include a new sculpture by Rachel Harrison, Avatar, 2010; Ull Hohn's series of plaster relief paintings, Untitled, 1988; Thea Djordjadze's Deaf and dumb universe (Ger�st), 2008; and Troy Brauntuch's Stamps, 1975-2007, which gathers together the artist's collection of figurative rubber stamps that have been used in his collages over the past thirty years. Also on view will be sculpture, collage, and a video work from Rosemarie Trockel, including Goodbye Mrs. M�nipaer, 2003, a cinematic pantomime that explores the psychologically fraught role-playing that can emerge between artists and gallerists, studio and market concerns, and private and public selves. The performing body and political subject present themselves throughout the exhibition via acts of estrangement, reversal, ritualized behavior, and fragmentation. Manon de Boer's film Attica, 2008, for example, captures a refracted consideration of the 1971 prison uprising in the form of a musical performance, while Rosalind Nashashibi's This Quality, 2010, offers an indirect view of Cairo through tightly framed observations of likeness and variation. Matthew Buckingham's Image of Absalon to be Projected Until It Vanishes, 2001, addresses a public that may no longer exist in a fragmented portrait of the Danish warrior-bishop and quasi-mythic founder of the city of Copenhagen. Similarly, the place of abstraction reasserts a longstanding dialog with the place of iconography through modes of projection, superimposition, doubling, and associative image sequences in works by Richard Aldrich, Moyra Davey, Charline von Heyl, Elad Lassry, and Blinky Palermo. Also included within Time Again is a presentation of works organized in collaboration with Novel, a project founded by London-based editors and curators Matt Williams and Alun Rowlands. A publication project that takes up experimental writing as a parallel practice to visual art making, Novel draws on politics, poetry, theory, and storytelling to promote explorations of language and the possibility of a new critical fiction. Extending across artistic mediums into sculpture, film and video, photography and painting, Time Again provokes a consideration of how 'the now' of our time is perceived. A series of talks and performances will take place at SculptureCenter, and a related screening series will be presented in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives in July (Dates TBA). The exhibition catalog will feature texts by contributing artists�including Ed Atkins, Josef Strau, and Richard Aldrich�and essays by Fionn Meade, Jacob King, and Isla Leaver-Yap. About SculptureCenter Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution in Long Island City, NY dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new works and presents exhibitions by emerging and established, national and international artists. Our programs identify new talent, explore the conceptual, aesthetic and material concerns of contemporary sculpture, and encourage independent vision. For additional information or images, please contact Frederick Janka at 718.361.1750 x117 or [email protected] UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS New York Gallery Week Opening Reception SculptureCenter Photo Portfolio: Leslie Hewitt, Marlo Pascual, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag and Sara VanDerBeek Friday, May 6th, 6-8pm SculptureCenter at Leo Koenig Projekte 541 West 23rd Street, New York Join SculptureCenter's NewArtNetwork at Leo Koenig Projekte for the opening of a special New York Gallery Week pop up presentation May 6 - 8 of the SculptureCenter Limited Edition Photo Portfolio, featuring newly commissioned photographs by Leslie Hewitt, Marlo Pascual, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag and Sara VanDerBeek. Sharing an interest in the materiality of images and the way the photographic image affects the way we experience form, each artist explores concerns that are central to the current dialogue around the relationship between sculpture and photography. Fionn Meade in conversation with Sara VanDerBeek Saturday, May 7, 2011, 2:30pm SculptureCenter at Leo Koenig Projekte 541 West 23rd Street, New York SculptureCenter curator Fionn Meade discusses the the relationship between sculpture and photography with artist Sara VanDerBeek. VanDerBeek's photographs are based predominantly on sculptural forms created by the artist. These discrete sculptural set-ups deftly reference not only archaic effigies, but also appropriated imagery and Modern design. Constructed expressly in order to be photographed VanDerBeek's sculptural process offers dexterous and subtle juxtapositions that reveal how history changes our view of images, and images change our view of history. TIME AGAIN CONVERSATIONS What Happened to the Institutional Critique? Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 7:00pm SculptureCenter SculptureCenter Curator Fionn Meade moderates a conversation with artists Tom Burr and Emily Roysdon that revisits the discourse of institutional critique and identity politics central to New York art production in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Taking inspiration from the work of Ull Hohn (1960-1995) and the role played by American Fine Arts (which represented both Burr and Hohn), the conversation will consider how terms and concepts that emerged during that period have been incorporated and transformed. RSVP to [email protected]. Question the Wall Itself Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 7:00 PM SculptureCenter SculptureCenter Curator Fionn Meade moderates a conversation with artists Kerstin Brdtsch, Liam Gillick, and David Reed regarding the influence of Blinky Palermo and his work on subsequent generations. In discussing what could be called the "Palermo Effect," the conversation will consider how temporary exhibition strategies play off and complicate existing architecture, the relationship between abstraction and iconography, the use of persona, and how Palermo's "provisional formalism," as Gillick has previously termed it, might be used today. RSVP to [email protected]. UPCOMING MEMBER EVENTS SculptureCenter Members-Only Exhibition Preview Sunday, May 8th, 3pm SculptureCenter Join SculptureCenter Curator Fionn Meade and exhibiting artists for an exclusive preview of the SculptureCenter Summer Exhibition Time Again. The Preview opens at 3:30PM and we will begin the Curator Tour at 4:00PM. Afterwards enjoy the public opening reception from 5:007:00PM. For more details about Time Again please visit www.sculpture-center.org. RSVP to John Emison at [email protected]. Member Visit with Richard Aldrich to Addicted to Highs and Lows Tuesday, April 26th, 6pm Bortolami Gallery, 520 W 20th Street Join SculptureCenter Members for an intimate conversation with Richard Aldrich at Bortolami Gallery in Chelsea to discuss his recent curatorial project Addicted to Highs and Lows and the overlapping roles of artist, curator, critic, and writer. The Brookyn-based artist is best known for his abstracted paintings, two of which will be included in the upcoming SculptureCenter exhibition Time Again. RSVP to John Emison at [email protected]. Not a member? Call John Emison at 718.361.1750 or go online to www.sculpture-center.org to join. SculptureCenter 44-19 Purves Street Long Island City, New York 718.361.1750 www.sculpture-center.org |
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