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Americas Society

On view from September 28, 2007 to January 5, 2008
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12-6 PM

Exhibition Opening: Friday, September 28, 6:30-9:00 PM
Visual Arts: Curatorial dialogue with participating artists: 6:30 PM
Opening reception: 7:30 - 9:00 PM

Free Admission

About the exhibition:

Guest curated by Victoria Noorthoorn, the exhibition is divided into two distinct sections.
The first, a selection of action-based projects by artists working in Buenos Aires; the second, a documentary section exploring the rich historical foundations that link these projects to the 1960s and 1970s.

Taken together, the projects included in the exhibition formulate politics of intimacy. They attempt to offer a poetic vision of reality in which fiction, and in some cases humor, are the catalysts for creating new situations or unforeseen visions. The ideal of inserting a poetic gesture into a highly structured system reveals resistance; it also signals the will to construct the own utopia and affirms a local, community-oriented focus that operates by generating its own spaces of legitimacy and effecting decisive transformations in our ways of seeing.

Along the way, the contemporary artist’s gestures and actions explore the limit of the author-subject, which is either split, merged with the object or subject studied, or transformed into an other self; authorship is altered and dissolved in the process of exploration. Like their precursors, they locate the artistic practice in life.

The historical section is organized as a timeline from 1956 to 1976 that focuses on immediate actions and performing gestures of destruction and dematerialization that sought to confront and transform the art system during this time. In the timeline, the viewers will be able to access information on specific gestures and projects by Alberto Greco, Marta Minujín, Roberto Jacoby, the mass media art group (Eduardo Costa and Roberto Jacoby, Raúl Escari, and Juan Risuleo), Pablo Suárez, and Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos among others.

The contemporary section presents installations, performance projects and films that together propose a "politics of intimacy," by, for the most part, mid-generation artists, with the exception of Navarro and Tartaglia (emerging) and Jacoby (from a previous generation): Marina De Caro; Ana Gallardo; Graciela Hasper; Roberto Jacoby, in collaboration with Syd Krochmalny; Fabio Kacero; Fernanda Laguna; Patricio Larrambebere; Eduardo Navarro; Leandro Tartaglia; and Judi Werthein.

Exhibition catalogue available through Harvard University Press.

Upcoming Public Programs related to the exhibition:

Curatorial dialogue with participating Artists
Friday, September 28, 6:30 p.m.

Vis-à-vis: Dialogues between Artists and Curators from the Western Hemisphere with Analia Segal and Deborah Cullen
Thursday , October 25, 6:00 p.m.

This program is co-organized with El Museo del Barrio.

Artist’s talk with Roberto Jacoby
Wednesday, October 10, 6:00 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Alex Alberro and Ana Longoni on "Destruction in Argentine Art from the 1960s and 1970s"
Wednesday, November 14, 6:00 p.m.

Reservations are required
Please email culture@americas-society.org or call (212) 277 8359

We gratefully acknowledge the following donors for their generous support of Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy: An Exhibition of Argentine Contemporary Artists, 1960 – 2007: Teresa de Bulgheroni; Banco Hipotecario; Falcon Properties; Fundación arteBA; Fundación Exportar, Secretary of Trade and International Economic Relations, Argentina; HaudenschildGarage, Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild; Pinta-Art, LLC; and Alejandro Quentin.

About Us

Americas Society is the premier forum dedicated to education, debate and dialogue in the Americas. Our mission is to foster an understanding of the contemporary political, social and economic issues confronting Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, and to increase public awareness and appreciation of the diverse cultural heritage of the Americas and the importance of the inter-American relationship. Americas Society unites opinion leaders to exchange ideas and develop solutions to the challenges facing the Americas today.

Visitors Info

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Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle

!REVOLUTION?
September 28 - November 11, 2007

Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle
Dozsa Gyorgy ut 37.
H-1146 Budapest
Phone/Fax: ( 36 1) 460 7000
info@mucsarnok.hu

http://www.mucsarnok.hu
http://www.kunsthalle.hu

Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest is pleased to present three new exhibitions: !REVOLUTION? and solo shows of Markéta Othová and Deimantas Narkevicius opening on September 27 at 19.00

Artists:
Balázs Bela Studio /Magyar Dezso, Alice Creischer/Andreas Siekmann, Latifa Echakhch, Raphael Grisey, Sandra Johnston, Khoór Lilla/Anna Artaker, Haraszti Gina/Kutvölgyi Lena/Bengt Sjölen, Tania Mouraud, Deimantas Narkevicius, Ines Schaber, Peter Watkins

Project documentation and films:
Bachman Gabor/Rajk Laszlo, Media Research Foundation, B. Revesz Laszlo, Muhi Klara/Der Andras

concept: Ulrike Kremeier, Livia Paldi
curator of the Budapest edition: Livia Paldi
exhibition design: Andreas Mueller

The exhibition presents works that, on the one hand, reflected on revolution as a phenomenon along with the modes of its representation in mass media, and, on the other hand, examined artistic modes of interpretation, (re)presentations in mass communication and the basic social conditions of revolution as a socio-politically definitive circumstance.

It connects the substantial issues and forms of manifestation (such as demonstrations, spontaneous forms of expression, the role of media, publicity and their symbolic appearance) of revolutions along a time axis with the events preceding and following 1956 (e.g.: the Paris Commune of 1871, the 1919 Soviet Republic of Hungary, the 1968 events in France and the political changes of 1989/1990) and with the current events of our days.

The selected works represent several methods which, with the help of formal and/or comparative analysis, endeavor to highlight some striking details in various correlations out of often baffling masses of information. At the same time, the artists direct attention at their own work, that is, artistic activity as a relevant political and social act, insomuch as they make the recipient conscious of the significant intermediary and social responsibility of their artistic activity.

The exhibition’s discursive endeavor is further emphasized by its architectural design, which gives ground to multiple interpretations of similar phenomena.

The Kunsthalle, Budapest hosts the third edition of the exhibition (after Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin and Centre d’art Passerelle, Brest), augmented with new artistic positions as well as historical documents and documentary films.

The exhibition has been supported by Bipolar - Kulturstiftung des Bundes and National Cultural Fund, Budapest

Deimantas Narkevicius
History continued

September 28 - November 11, 2007

Curator: Livia Paldi

The film and video work of Deimantas Narkevicius are centered on issues of history and the relation and representability of official and personal memory. His inquests about the politicization of memory and the potentials of representing historical/political events filtered through the personal merge with experiments and employment of diverse cinematic devices and filmic languages.

The exhibition in the Budapest Kunsthalle is the artist’s first solo show in Hungary, presenting a selection of video installations from the past 10 years, including one of his latest work, Revisiting Solaris (2007).

Markéta Othová
"You don’t know me, but I know you"

September 28 - November 11, 2007

Curators: Karel Cisar and Livia Paldi

Prague based Markéta Othová has been working with photography as a medium since the early 1990s and takes black and white photos almost exclusively. She arranges her large, unframed photographs - which draw from the genre of both documentarism and of classical art photography - in series resembling film sequences or in variable combinations, where juxtaposed empty interiors, everyday objects, still lifes, as well as street scenes may generate unexpected and even uncanny associations. While ceaselessly exploring the current potentials of photography as a medium, Othová’s works direct attention to the points of intersection and poetics of evocation and memory; reality and illusion; presentation and preservation.

For further information please contact:
Reka Csejdy at rcsejdy@mucsarnok.hu

For more information go to: http://www.mucsarnok.hu

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