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Dialogues in Contemporary Art: Take 4 on ARTonAIR

Posted on September 3, 2013

Terry Smith & Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy on ARTonAIR.org. Originally aired on July 16, 2013.

Art historian Terry Smith and curator Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy in conversation about Smith’s book Thinking Contemporary Curating as part of a series of conversation between the author and respected curators

These programs are produced in partnership with the radio station of the Clocktower Gallery, operating at ARTonAIR.org.

Terry Smith & Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy on ARTonAIR

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Terry Smith & Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy on ARTonAIR.org. Originally aired on July 16, 2013.

Art historian Terry Smith and curator Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy in conversation about Smith’s book Thinking Contemporary Curating as part of a series of conversation between the author and respected curators

These programs are produced in partnership with the radio station of the Clocktower Gallery, operating at ARTonAIR.org.

Performance Now featured in the Kansas City Star and the Pitch

Posted on September 5, 2013

The Kansas City Star‘s Sunday paper recently featured a large, 2-page spread reflecting on the touring exhibition Performance Now. Covering many of the works in depth, the article focuses on works by Claire Fontaine, Marina Abramovic, Clifford Owens and more.

“Co-organized by Independent Curators International, New York, and Performa, a biennial of performance art organized by RoseLee Goldberg, “Performance Now” is an extraordinary show, providing an opportunity to see almost a decade’s worth of landmark performances.”

Continue to read the full article on line here.

Additionally, the exhibition was covered by the Pitch, stating:
“The sheer scale of Performance Now is daunting enough to make repeat visits necessary, at least if you want to gather more than surface impressions. The depth in Goldberg’s exhibition is in its genuine, nostalgic love for performance — for preserving and cataloging these seemingly ephemeral projects. The result is a traveling scrapbook of comedy and confrontation, ready to fascinate and prod but also to entertain.”

You can continue to read the Pitch article online here as well.

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Museum and Gallery Listings for Sept. 6-12 by The New York Times

Posted on September 6, 2013

Bronx Museum of the Arts: ‘State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970’

By Holland Cotter

Last Chance: California in the 1960s and ’70s was one of the weirder places on the planet, home to radical strains of both right- and left-wing politics, a hub of the national defense industry and a breeding ground for alternative cultures from Beat to hippie. It also produced its own strain of Conceptualism, the international art style that valued ideas and actions over things. This Bronx Museum show gives a vivid sense of the West Coast version, with its gawky rawness, sense of moral purpose, humor, and dovetailing of braininess and zaniness. Read the rest of the article here

Photos from the event: Aneta Szylak

Posted on September 7, 2013

Retrospective Traces Evolution of Artistic Self-Experiments by Salt Lake City Weekly

Posted on September 9, 2013

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Martha Wilson
Retrospective Traces Evolution of Artistic Self-Experiments
by Brian Staker

In our celebrity-obsessed culture, artists are often as much absorbed with creating a persona for themselves as with creating a body of work. The first contemporary artist to really make his persona the focus of his work was Andy Warhol; then performance artists in the 1970s and 1980s started using the medium for social and political commentary.

For four decades, Martha Wilson has been at the forefront of this movement, with her work in live performance, video and photo-text juxtapositions in the late 1970s collaborating with DISBAND—“the all-girl band of artists who couldn’t play any instruments,” as she puts it—and founding the nonprofit art space Franklin Furnace in Brooklyn. The traveling exhibition Martha Wilson: Staging the Self at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts traces the development of her work and herself as an artist.

To read the rest of the article, click here

Images from closing reception of State of Mind, Bronx Museum

 Images from closing reception of State of Mind, Bronx Museum

 Images from closing reception of State of Mind, Bronx Museum

 Images from closing reception of State of Mind, Bronx Museum

 Images from closing reception of State of Mind, Bronx Museum

 Images from closing reception of State of Mind, Bronx Museum

 Images from closing reception of State of Mind, Bronx Museum

Posted on September 10, 2013

ICI invited its patrons to a private reception in the Bronx Museum on Sunday, September 8th 2013. The guests were treated to a private tour of the critically-acclaimed exhibition State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970 led by Sergio Bessa, the Museum’s Director of Curatorial Programs, and Renaud Proch, Executive Director of ICI. The event concluded with a mimosa brunch for the invitees in the Museum’s terrace.

EXPO Chicago Press

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Read this article from the Huffington Post on EXPO.

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When Attitudes Become Form featured in the New York Times, Frieze, and Mousse Magazine

Posted on September 13, 2013

Posted on September 13, 2013

 

“The show — its full title was “Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form: Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information” — was instant history, a radical moment.” – Holland Cotter

The New York Times art critic Holland Cotter recently reviewed When Attitudes Become Form, an exhibition at the Prada Foundation in Venice that re-creates the original 1969 show organized by renowned curator Harald Szeemann. Describing the original exhibition in depth, the review provides a historical context for the recreation of Szeemann’s pivotal exhibition. Read the full article on line here. Additionally, the exhibition was covered by Mousse Magazine, and Frieze Magazine.

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“Germano Celant and Miuccia Prada rewarded by Independent Curators International” by Artinfo

Posted on September 14, 2013

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Germano Celant and Miuccia Prada rewarded by Independent Curators International
by BLOUIN Artinfo Italia

The professional couple formed by Germano Celant and Miuccia Prada is one of the most enduring and respected thanks to the activity of the Fondazione Prada, whose last exhibition at the site of Ca ‘Corner in Venice has seen the re-staging of the historical exhibition by Harald Szeemann, “When Attitudes Become Form”.

To read the rest of the article, click here.

Photos from the event: Terry Smith in Conversation with Paul O’Neill

Posted on September 15, 2013

“Miuccia Prada, Prada Foundation’s Germano Celant to Be Honored” from Women’s Wear Daily

Posted on September 17, 2013

By Rosemary Feitelberg

PRIZED PRADA: Independent Curators International (ICI) will honor Miuccia Prada and Prada Foundation director Germano Celant respectively with the Leo award and the Agnes Gund Curatorial award at its annual benefit. The pair will be feted for their contributions to contemporary art, the work of the Prada Foundation internationally and for the exhibition “When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013.” On view at the Ca’ Corner, the show has been singled out for its focus on the history of exhibitions and independent curating.

Prada, who serves as president of the foundation that bears her name, follows in the footsteps of such other Leo recipients as John Russell, Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein and Chuck Close. Established in 1990, the Leo award is named after the art dealer Leo Castelli and it is given to those who have helped further a forward-thinking generation of artists and curators.

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“State of Mind” Catalog Review by Paul J. Karlstrom

Posted on September 20, 2013

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“California History” Volume 90, Number 2, 2013 Reviewed by Paul J. Karlstrom, Former West Coast Regional Director, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. A review of STATE OF MIND: NEW CALIFORNIA ART CIRCA 1970 By Constance M. Lewallen and Karen Moss, with essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson and Anne Rorimer (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012, 296 pp., $39.95 cloth). Read the article here.

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Highlights from EXPO Chicago

Posted on September 25, 2013

ICI had a great weekend at Expo Chicago. Chicago Navy Pier Chicago Navy Pier EXPO Booth ICI’s Booth, featuring do it Limited Editions by Stephen J. Kaltenbach and Marina Abramovi?. Bridget Finn intro SJK ICI’s Bridget Finn introduces a talk by Stephen J. Kaltenbach SJK during talk Stephen J. Kaltenbach discusses his Time Capsules, Untitled, 2012. See a video of the talk here SJK with Reporters Stephen J. Kaltenbach Expo Chicago bird's eye Bird’s Eye View SJK at BGFA

Stephen Kaltenbach: Drawings, Time Capsules and Room Alterations is currently on view at Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL
September 20–October 26, 2013

Closing Reception: Saturday, October 26, 5–8pm

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Installation View from Bert Green Fine Art BGFA again

Installation view from Bert Green Fine Art SJK opening

ICI’s Bridget Finn and Alaina Claire Feldman with Stephen J. Kaltenbach at Bert Green Fine Art

Thanks to everyone who came out!

 

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Photos from the event: Dark Trajectories: Politics of the Outside

Posted on September 26, 2013

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Photos from the event: MAD-LIB[rary] Vol. 4

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Stephen Kaltenbach’s talk at Expo Chicago

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Stephen Kaltenbach spoke this past week at the ICI booth at Expo Chicago Art Fair on Friday September 20 2013, concurrent with his solo survey exhibition at Bert Green Fine Art in Chicago IL.

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Martha Wilson in the Daily Utah Chronicle

Posted on September 27, 2013

Katrina Vastag of The Daily Utah Chronicle profiles Martha Wilson’s interventionism in the UMFA galleries and highlights her concurrent installation Helen Levitt and Gary Winogrand photographs from the UMFA permanent collection:
“In addition to Wilson’s individual art, she put together a collection of photographs by Helen Levitt and Garry Winogrand, which can be found on the second floor of the UMFA. The photographs have accompanying text meant to challenge the viewer. She hopes museum guests will notice the difference between a man’s gaze and a woman’s gaze — glances highlighted through Wilson’s photographic pairings.”

The Guerilla Girls also held a sold-out show in connection with the exhibit on Sept. 12 at the UMFA!

Read the full article here.

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Stephen Kaltenbach in the Chicago Reader

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Disappearing and reemerging with artist Stephen Kaltenbach
By Andrea Gronvall for the Chicago Reader
(9/27/13)

“Stephen Kaltenbach has been among the most influential American artists since the late 1960s, when he helped introduce the movement known as conceptualism. Near the height of his youthful fame in 1970 he left the New York art scene for northern California, where he still resides. A sculptor, painter, and installation and performance artist, Kaltenbach was in town last weekend for Expo Chicago. On Friday he spoke at the Independent Curators International (ICI) booth about his stainless steel Untitled Time Capsules. (ICI is also touring a group show, “State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970,” opening October 3 at the Smart Museum, which will feature Kaltenbach’s Art Works, 1968-2005 and Artforum Ads, 1969-70.)

Also last weekend he appeared at the opening of a show of his works at Bert Green Fine Art, where he spoke to me about his career.

AG: The other day when I asked you how long it took art followers to catch up with you, you replied that you weren’t especially approachable when you were young, and had a hard time being serious. You mentioned that early on your supporters were not audiences, per se. Can you expound on that?

SK: I really liked humor in sculpture, painting, and conceptual art, so I was fine with being pretty inaccessible. I had learned a lot in art history classes: if you do art secretly, and you don’t initially have a lot of luck, people will explain what you do, people who can explain it better than, say, I can.”

Read the rest of Andrea Gronvall’s interview with Stephen Kaltenbach here.

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Darryl Sapien’s Son of War Games

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Darryl Sapien created this short (six minute) video edit of his piece Son of War Games which was performed at the Bronx Museum in June, 2013.

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