Anne Chu in Diversities of Sculpture/Derivations from Nature
Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton
April 27 - October 6, 2012Everything can come alive when contradictions and oppositions accumulate. The miscellany of sculptures by six artists for this exhibition is a gathering of pioneering, conventional, and idiosyncratic works and practices, having no sweeping ideology in common. The LHR gardens will be their new context for the summer season, viewed and experienced in relationship to plantings, gravel, and the completing glory of nature, which should distinctly complement each object.
Maranao Man, 2004
Mary Heilmann in Phantom Limb
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
May 5 - October 21, 2012Drawn primarily from the MCA Collection but augmented with works from the Chicago community, the exhibition explores the decades-old skepticism about how painterly gestures are made.
Metropolitan, 1999
Jane and Louise Wilson in "Tomorrow was already here"
Museum of Contemporary Art Rufino Tamayo, Mexico
August 24, 2012 - February 3, 2012
curated by Julieta GonzalesTomorrow was already here focuses on artists who look towards past visions of the future. Taking cues from Chris Marker's "La Jetée," Walter Benjamin's "Angel of History", and Giorgio Agamben's notion of potentialities, the show visits some of the utopian and futuristic imaginaries of the past from Cold War angst to third world utopian dreams of progress. The selection of works attempts to create a parcours mostly made of ambiances where each work will be shown individually, although in other cases small groups of works will be placed in dialogue.
Monument (Apollo Pavillion, Peter Lee), 2003
Doug Aitken Song 1
A 360° Projection
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
March 22 - May 20, 2012 nightly from sunset to midnightMay 11 - evening "Happening" with special musical guests and "Art in the Expanded Field," an afternoon of lectures and artist talks
For nearly eight weeks this spring, internationally renowned artist Doug Aitken (American, b. Redondo Beach, Calif., 1968; lives and works in Los Angeles and New York) will illuminate the façde of the Hirshhorn's iconic cylindrical building by completely covering it with moving images, accompanying them with an original soundscape. Using 11 high-definition video projectors, Aitken will seamlessly blend imagery to envelop the museum's exterior, creating a work that redefines cinematic space. A bold commission that will enter the Hirshhorn's permanent collection, "SONG 1" (2012) will enhance the museum's ever-expanding holdings of cutting-edge moving-image art.
On Friday, May 11, an evening event from sundown to midnight including appearance by special musical guests will take place on the museum's plaza. Conceived by Aitken as an extension of the artwork into the realm of live performance, it will function as the capstone to the exhibition.
As a counterpoint to the evening "Happening," the Hirshhorn will host "Art in the Expanded Field," a series of lectures and artist talks on the afternoon of May 11. Please check hirshhorn.si.edu for details.
Karen Kilimnik
The Brant Foundation
May 7- September 30, 2012Karen Kilmik's exhibition at the Brant Foundation will be inspired by the the Brants' historical collection of Kilimnik works that ranges in year from 1982 - 2011. Featured will be installation, paintings, photography and drawings with themes such as Avengers, witchcraft, napoleonic, equestrian and chinoiserie.
In the upper gallery 'Fountain of Youth' will be installed with living 6 foot rose hedges, grass, ivy, and glass perfume bottles. In the lower gallery, a chinoiserie themed installation is created where the early drawings will hang, with custom wallpaper, furniture, garden seats, fans and lanterns.
The show will allow for a rigorous consideration of Kilimnik's practice through a combinative method of historical retrospective and re-interpetation. The Brants' remarkable collection of Kilimnik's work allows for canonical pieces to be contextualized in relation to Kilimnik's disparate strategies, and through their presentation within the country idyll of the Brant Foundation, the works will acquire new communicative power.
the ocelot lost in hawaii, 2008
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Serpentine Gallery, London
April 11 - June 5, 2012Hans-Peter Feldmann's exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery will be his first solo presentation in a London public gallery. He will present works from throughout his career. Among the earliest works is a series of booklets titled Bilder (Pictures), each consisting of a collection of photographs of everyday subjects or situations. Feldmann's appetite for amassing cultural artifacts is demonstrated in a new work presented for the first time at the Serpentine. The artist purchased a number of ladies' handbags along with their entire contents, filling museological vitrines with credit cards, mobile telephones and address books, making passing fashions and lifestyle choices the object of display and public discussion. Also seen for the first time at the Serpentine is Seascapes, a collection of 15 traditional oil paintings in conventional frames shown as a group.
Stephen Shore at PhotoEspana 2012
From the Factory to the World: Photography and the Warhol CommunityTheatro Fernan Gomez Centro de Arte, Madrid
June 6 - July 22, 2012The exhibition will include 12 black & white photographs from the "Velvet Years" series.
John Cale, 1965-1967, printed c. 2010
Nick Mauss in the 2012 Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art
March 1 - May 27 2012The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the list of artists participating in the upcoming 2012 Whitney Biennial, which takes place at the Whitney from March 1 through May 27, 2012, with some programs continuing through June 10. This is the seventy-sixth in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded.
The Whitney Biennial is an exhibition held every two years in which the Museum gauges the current state of contemporary art in America. The 2012 Biennial is being curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney, and Jay Sanders, a freelance curator. The curators began working on the research and planning of the show in early December 2010. Fifty-one artists have been selected. The Biennial comprises work-including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations-from both emerging and established artists. In addition to visual artists, the exhibition includes a select group of filmmakers, choreographers, musicians, and playwrights. These multidisciplinary arts will be presented in a large open space in the Museum's fourth floor galleries.
Concern, crush, desire, 2011
Matt Johnson in "Lifelike"
Walker Art Center
February 25 - May 27, 2012Is it real? Lifelike invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, often playful, and sometimes surreal. This international group exhibition features artists variously using scale, unusual materials, and sly contextual devices to reveal the manner in which their subjects' "authenticity" is manufactured. Avoiding the brand-name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap. They also favor a handmade, labor-intensive practice rather than technological enhancements. The resulting works-including painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and video-transform the ordinary into something beguiling, loaded with narrative and metaphor, and imbued with an arresting sense of humanity.
American Spirit, 2010
Anne Chu in "Keeping House"
Brooklyn Museum
February 24 - August 26, 2012Brooklyn Museum's period rooms will be the site of a group show called "Playing House,". Ann Agee, Anne Chu, Mary Lucier, and Betty Woodman will be creating "activations" in several of the rooms by installing their own artworks on and around the existing furnishings. The four artists will create both discordant and harmonious juxtapositions, encourage dialogues between past and present, and alter the visitor's perception of the rooms and of their own art works.
Jeppe Hein in "The Art of Deceleration: Motion and Rest in Art from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Weiwei"
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
December 11, 2011 - September 4, 2012This exhibition uses the polar concepts of acceleration/deceleration to focus on numerous current problems such as time pressures, financial crises, ecological disasters, loss of control, the contraction of the present (Lübbe), the Internet tempo virus as well as stress and burnout syndromes.
Continuity Reflecting Space, 2003
