Mark Bradford
Marcelino Goncalves
Lyle Ashton Harris
Brian Jungen
Kurt Kauper
Kori Newkirk
Paul Pfeiffer
Marco Rios
Hank Willis Thomas
Nan Goldin
Marc Jacobs
Yayoi Kusama
Karl Lagerfeld
Christian Louboutin
Nate Lowman
Ryan McGinness
Patrick McMullan
Catherine Opie
Yoshitomo Nara
Richard Phillips
Gareth Pugh
Kenny Scharf
Aurel Schmidt
Andres Serrano
Philip Treacy
Ultra Violet
Vivienne Westwood
Kehinde Wiley
Stacy Engman
Mixed Signals features works by contemporary artists that probe the stereotype of the American male athlete. This particular theme has become increasingly prevalent during the past several years. The exhibition features such well-known artists to emerging talents. Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, features 78 Tarot cards created by some of today's most dynamic artists and fashion designers including Nan Goldin, Marc Jacobs, Yayoi Kusama, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Louboutin, Nate Lowman, Ryan McGinness, Patrick McMullan, Catherine Opie, Yoshitomo Nara, Richard Phillips, Gareth Pugh.... These artists and designers address both the mythic underpinnings of each figure as well as contemporary life.
The Andy Warhol Museum announces its latest
special exhibitions, Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports and
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project.
The Warhol will open two new exhibitions, Mixed Signals: Artists Consider
Masculinity in Sports and Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project on May
27, 2011. Mixed Signals will be on view through August 7 while Contemporary
Magic will be on view through August 15, 2011.
Mixed Signals features works by contemporary artists that probe the stereotype of
the American male athlete. This particular theme has become increasingly prevalent
during the past several years. The exhibition features such well-known artists as
Matthew Barney, Catherine Opie, Collier Schorr, and Sam Taylor-Wood to
emerging talents such as Shaun El C. Leonardo and Joe Sola. Mixed Signals
demonstrates that the male athlete is a far more ambiguous figure in our collective
cultural imagination than ever before. Using elements of wit, sarcasm, and
controversy, these artists challenge cultural assumptions that gender is natural or
innate. Instead, they emphasize the many ways masculinity is always performed,
coded, and socially constructed, perhaps even more so in the spectacular,
media-saturated field of sports. Rituals of male bonding typical to various sports are
explored as well. Another key theme of this exhibition pertains to the materials,
symbols and regalia of sports that signify the prowess of the wearer.
Additional artists featured in this exhibition are: Mark Bradford, Marcelino
Gonçalves, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brian Jungen, Kurt Kauper, Kori Newkirk Paul
Pfeiffer, Marco Rios, and Hank Willis Thomas.
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports is a traveling exhibition
organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.
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MIXED SIGNALS AND CONTEMPORARY MAGIC
Guest curator for the exhibition is Christopher Bedford.
The exhibition, tour, and
catalogue are made possible, in part, by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the
ICI Advocates, the ICI Partners, Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, and
Barbara and John Robinson.
Mixed Signals is an expanded version of Contemporary Projects 11: Hard Targets-
-Masculinity and Sports, an exhibition curated by Bedford and organized by the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art.
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, features 78 Tarot cards created by
some of today’s most dynamic artists and fashion designers including Nan Goldin,
Marc Jacobs, Yayoi Kusama, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Louboutin, Nate Lowman,
Ryan McGinness, Patrick McMullan, Catherine Opie, Yoshitomo Nara, Richard
Phillips, Gareth Pugh, Kenny Scharf, Aurel Schmidt, Andres Serrano, Philip Treacy,
Ultra Violet, Vivienne Westwood, and Kehinde Wiley. These artists and
designers address both the mythic underpinnings of each figure as well as
contemporary life.
The Tarot card deck, originally developed in mid-fifteenth century Europe,
typically consists of 78 cards used to play a number of card games. During the
eighteenth century through today, these cards have been utilized by mystics for
patron readings of spiritual pathways. Typically, Tarot decks are created by one
artist and commissioned by one person. Around one hundred years ago the first
Tarot deck suit cards were actually given pictorial meaning. Prior to that, all of the
suit cards (the wands, the coins, the cups, the swords) were depicted only by
numbers. The cards in this exhibition range in media including photography,
painting and collage.
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project is curated by Stacy Engman,
curator, National Arts Club. This traveling show is presented and made possible by:
KLÜP Foundation.
Exhibition Related Public Programming
Tailgate and Tarot Card Party & Opening Celebration Thursday, May 26, 2011 7 - 11 p.m.
Join us for a tailgate and tarot card reading party, featuring DJ Huck Finn and DJ
Pete Spynda (Pandemic), tarot card readings, scantily clad sports models, and
outdoor grilling and beer. Sport your butchest jock attire. We are celebrating the
opening of two new exhibitions, Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in
Sports and Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project.
Cash bar and lite bites
Tickets $18/ $15 CMP Members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412.237.8300
IN CONJUNCTION WITH... Soccer as Never Before
July 29, 2011 8 p.m.
Soccer as Never Before [Fussball wie noch nie] (Germany, 1970) Directed by
Hellmuth Costard.
On September 12, 1970, Manchester United beat Coventry 2-0. A record was
preserved of the match that was [until recently – See Douglas Gordon and Philippe
Parreno’s 2006 variant Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait] unique in the history of
film and television. Using eight 16mm cameras, Costard followed every move, over
the course of the match's ninety minutes, of the man in the red #11 jersey, the
mercurial George Best. As a reviewer commented at the time, the film's
concentration on one player actually shows "the true extent to which the sport is all
about teamwork."
Screened in conjunction with the exhibition Mixed Signals: Artists Consider
Masculinity in Sports.
Free with Museum admission.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH... The Velvet Underground Tarot Cards
August 5, 2011 8 p.m.
The Velvet Underground Tarot Cards (1966) 16mm film, b/w, sound, 65 minutes.
Directed by Andy Warhol. Starring John Cale, Nico, Susan Bottomly, Mary
Woronov, Ingrid Superstar, Eric Emerson, John Wilcock, Lou Reed, Angelina
“Pepper” Davis, Maureen Tucker, Sterling Morrison, and Danny Williams
Originally shot as background footage for The Velvet Underground and Nico during
their Exploding Plastic Inevitable performances, this Warhol premiere documents
each member of the band having their cards read at a big apartment party. The tarot
reader is continually interrupted in her readings by the chaos created by the
characters around her.
Screened in conjunction with the exhibition Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art
Project.
This film has been preserved through the Avant-Garde Masters program funded by
The Film Foundation and administered by the National Film Preservation Fund.
Tickets $10; Visit warhol.org or call 412.237.8300
The Warhol receives state arts funding support through a grant from the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and The Heinz
Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.
About The Andy Warhol Museum
Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol’s birth, The Warhol
is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Andy
Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Additional
information about The Warhol is available at www.warhol.org.
About Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a
collection of four distinctive museums dedicated to exploration through art and
science: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie
Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum. In 2007, the museums reached 1.3
million people through exhibitions, education, outreach and special events.
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Opening Thursday, May 26, 2011, 7 - 11 p.m.
The Andy Warhol Museum
117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-5890
Hours: Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat and Sun 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Fri, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m., Mon closed
Admission: Members – free
Good Fridays 5-10 p.m., Half-price Museum admission
Adults - $15; Sr. Citizens - $9; Children/Students - $8
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