Nancy Holt
dal 26/1/2011 al 26/3/2011
Segnalato da
26/1/2011
Nancy Holt
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Sightlines. The exhibition offers an in-depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture, and time-based media. It showcases Holt's transformation of the perception of the landscape through the use of different observational modes in her early films, videos, and related works from 1966 to 1980.
Badischer Kunstverein is pleased to present the first comprehensive exhibition of Nancy Holt in Europe! Since the late 1960s, Holt has created a far-reaching body of work, including Land art, films, photography, sculpture, site-specific installations, artist's books, and concrete poetry. Curated by Alena J. Williams, this thematic exhibition offers an in-depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture, and time-based media.
Sightlines showcases Holt's transformation of the perception of the landscape through the use of different observational modes in her early films, videos, and related works from 1966 to 1980. Encompassing more than 40 works, as well as photographic and archival materials that have only recently become available, the exhibition illuminates Holt's circumvention of modernist sculptural practice and institutional spaces. Alongside a number of her significant films, including Sun Tunnels (1978), which documents the creation of her well-known site-specific work of the same name, and Pine Barrens (1975), a meditative reflection on a notoriously vast, undeveloped region in Central New Jersey, the exhibition also features such seminal collaborative videos as Boomerang (1974, with Richard Serra) and East Coast/West Coast (1969, with Robert Smithson).
Long before Holt began working in either film or video, the relationship between visual and auditory elements took on particular significance in her work. Emerging from conceptual and minimalist approaches, Holt's audio tours, sculptures, and extensive Locator series, the documentation of which is also on view, offer a novel means for observing natural phenomena and built space. On the occasion of this presentation in Karlsruhe, the artist will develop a new, site-specific audio work responding to the architecture and infrastructure of the Kunstverein.
Nancy Holt: Sightlines is based on an exhibition originated and circulated by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York. Major support for the development and presentation of the original project was provided by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
It coincides with the first retrospective publication of Holt's 45-year career. Published by the University of California Press (February 2011), it includes contributions by Pamela M. Lee, Lucy Lippard, Nancy Holt, Ines Schaber, Matthew Coolidge, James Meyer, and Julia Alderson.
Nancy Holt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1938, and now lives in Galisteo, New Mexico. She is the recipient of five National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two New York Creative Artist Fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Holt's work has been presented at a number of international institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Tate Modern in London.
Artist's Lecture by Nancy Holt
25 January, 7 pm
Auditorium, Karlsruhe State Academy of Fine Arts
Reinhold-Frank-Strasse 67, Karlsruhe
For further information and press images please contact:
Nadja Quante/Badischer Kunstverein, presse@badischer-kunstverein.de
Opening Thursday 27 January, 7pm
Badischer Kunstverein
Waldstrasse 3 - Karlsruhe
Hours: Tue-Fri 11-19, Sat-Sun and holidays 11-17
Admissions: 3 euros, 1,50 reduced