September 8 - October 9, 2004
Christian Stayner
If the atomic bomb threatens total destruction, the work in Building
the Unthinkable then shifts attention to its productive element. This
exhibition examines contemporary artistic and architectural production responding
to an unlikely inspiration.
Artists: The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Gregory Green, Michael Light,
Andreas Magdanz, Peter Marlow, Dominic McGill, Beryl Korot and Steve Reich, World
Power Systems and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
[Selected from apexart Unsolicited
Proposal Program]
October 13 - November 13, 2004
Amnon Barzel, curator, Rome, Italy
Place
for the Self is about the meaning of a home, and
a home within our own selves. The exhibition is about memory,
consciousness, identity and existential reflections.
Artists: Vito Acconci (New York), Krzysztof Bednarski (Warsaw, Poland), Barbara
Bloom (New York), Zvi Hecker, (Berlin/Tel Aviv), Vittorio Messina (Rome, Italy),
Anila Rubiku (Albania) and Micha Ullman (Israel)
November 17 - December 22, 2004
Marta Kuzma, Co-curator, Manifesta 5,
2004 (San Sebastian, Spain)
Drafting
Deceit modestly approaches the construction of
delusion as a deliberate gesture that infers a particular
performability
located in the purposeful drafting of the illusory. In
deciphering
and unraveling the delusion, it is art's privilege
to reveal, as Nabokov believed, the intent of deception
as an instrument for the coercive.
Artists: Sven Augustijnen, Michael Borremans, Johannes Kahrs, Marije
Langelaar, Mark Manders, Paul McCarthy, Kirsten Pieroth
January 5 - February 5, 2005
Amiel Grumberg, Paris,
France (1980-2004)
Too
Much Pollution to Demonstrate: Soft guerrillas in Tehran's
contemporary art scene
In Tehran where 70% of the population is under 30 years old, the voice of the
young generation is strong enough to have a consequential effect, but only in
the long-term. Some of these younger artists are producing remarkable work without
the possibility of showing them to a large audience, thus preventing the exploration
of their potential on a wider scale. Among them, Roxanna Daryadanesh, Shahab
Fotouhi, Barbad Golshiri, Neda Razavipour and Vahid Hakim
provide an impressive overview of the Teheran art scene's current quality and
dynamism. Through their work,
these five artists display an energetic use of art as a tool for the demonstration
of mental and physical constructions.
[Selected from apexart Unsolicited
Proposal Program]
February 9 - March 12, 2005
Maurizio
Couldn't Be Here
Rather
than fill in the cancellation with the predictable last
minute exhibition, apexart will
present five Saturdays of performance-related programs. apexart
will invite individuals to program one day each and Maurizio
has been asked, "What
do we do on the last Saturday?"
March 16 - April 16, 2005
Jonas
Ekeberg, Director, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
Social Democracy Revisited
The high era of social
democracy has been dated from 1952 to 1977, but the decline
of the welfare state did not show as an issue in artistic practice before
the mid nineties.
Since then, the Scandinavian art scene has witnessed a
row of individual artistic projects and group exhibitions dealing with
issues related to
the welfare state.
The core paradox of the social democratic order seems
to be an unlimited reservoir of material for artistic
investigation: What do we do when the system turns from
treating us all equally to making us all equal? And,
what do we do with our longing for the metaphysical,
for risk, for transgression, in a super-rational system
designed to reduce the possibility for all this?
[Selected by Ute Meta Bauer, Curator, Germany for our International
Program]
April 27 - May 21, 2005
Charles Esche, Director, Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven, Netherlands and Editor, Afterall
Afterall
Issue #7 of Afterall magazine will come to life, featuring the work of Kenneth Anger, Jeremy Blake,
The Handsome Family, Jutta Koether and Richard Wright.
May 25 - June 25, 2005
Suzi Gablik, art critic, writer and educator,
Blacksburg, Virginia
Sacred
Wild will examine the way contemporary artists
are drawn to sacred images and are using them in their
everyday life. The six artists incorporate or address
the trend towards investigating one's personal
spirituality over organized religious thought. The
artists include painter Jane Siegle; photographer David
Hanson; altar-makers Hank Foreman and Kathy Pinkerton;
and Fern Shaffer, who with Othello Anderson, produces
stunning performance rituals for
the earth.
June 29 - July 30, 2005
Sina Najafi, Editor, Cabinet Magazine,
NYC
Philosophical Toys fuses the tactile, visual, and philosophical.
Including an MIT electrical engineer/world renowned
paper folder, the crystallographer who invented kindergarten,
and a self-taught logician
who has devised a visual alphabet for revealing the
geometry behind logical operations. Organized by Sina
Najafi with Christine Wertheim, Margaret
Wertheim and Norman Brosterman.
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