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27/6/2012

Two exhibitions

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

The Residue of Memory

Memory is a paradoxical thing, central to the formation of the self, yet fugitive and difficult to pin down. Memories become attenuated with the passage of time, yet can come rushing back in an instant under certain conditions. From the simple act of marking time to the recording of complex events, The Residue of Memory examines the diverse ways that events can leave their mark, and how objects and experiences can function as physical traces or intangible points of contact to the past.

For his work free fotolab (2009), for example, British artist Phil Collins posted ads in several European cities, offering individuals free processing and prints from their undeveloped rolls of film in exchange for all rights to the images. The resulting nine-minute slideshow—a selection of vacation photos, family gatherings, and other private moments—presents a strangely affecting montage of anonymous appropriated memories. By contrast, American artist and activist Andrea Bowers explores both the history of activist causes—including environmentalism, immigration advocacy, women's rights, and civil rights—and their contemporary manifestations. She meticulously redraws images from historical photographs, often editing out the original background and isolating figures from a crowd. By isolating these subjects Bowers moves away from the particulars of the original events and imbues them with a more universal meaning. Whether personal or public, illustrative or evocative, ephemeral or concrete, the works that make up The Residue of Memory collectively engage with and complicate such apparent dichotomies as distance and proximity, loss and remembrance, the individual and the universal.

Artists in the exhibition include Kristoffer Akselbo, John Baldessari, Andrea Bowers, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, Roberto Cuoghi, Simon Evans, Lara Favaretto, Paul Graham, Karl Haendel, Susan Hiller, Pierre Huyghe, Friedrich Kunath, Glenn Ligon, Teresa Margolles, Richard Misrach, Richard Prince, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Doris Salcedo, Kaari Upson, and Anna Von Mertens.

The Residue of Memory is organized by the AAM and funded in part by the AAM National Council with major underwriting from Susan and Larry Marx. Additional exhibition support is provided by Gabriela and Ramiro Garza, Nancy and Richard Rogers, and the Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation for Latin American Art. Exhibition lectures are presented as part of the Questrom Lecture Series and educational outreach programming is made possible by the Questrom Education Fund.

Thursday, June 21, 6 pm
A panel discussion with artists Andrea Bowers, Simon Evans, and Paul Ramirez Jonas and AAM CEO and Director, Chief Curator, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson in conjunction with the exhibition The Residue of Memory.

Thursday, June 28, 5 pm
A members-only gallery walkthrough with AAM CEO and Director, Chief Curator, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson and AAM Curator Jacob Proctor in conjunction with the exhibitions The Residue of Memory and Simon Denny: Full Participation.

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Simon Denny
Full Participation

Employing a hybrid approach located somewhere between research project, retail display, and promotional campaign, Simon Denny's diverse artistic practice reflects on the production, distribution, and consumption of media in an age of accelerated technological obsolescence and relentless cultural overproduction. Through a variety of media, including photographs, sculpture, video, and printed ephemera, Denny invites us to consider the evolution of television and video as both technologies and cultural forms.

Denny's recent works have included investigations into the form and "architecture" of the TV set itself (the physical depth of which, we are reminded, has shrunk along with the medium's loss of dominance as a content provider), the genre conventions of documentary, and the myriad processes by which content is translated from one medium to another. Other works explore the aesthetics of the glitch, moments of interference where the smooth flow of content breaks down, while still others mine the seemingly banal world of trade shows and industry publications.

Denny’s exhibition at the AAM grows, in part, out of his research into the history of Aspen’s own GrassRoots Television, the oldest public-access cable channel in the country. One video features GrassRoots footage of Aspen luminary Nick DeWolf speaking about the electronic community bulletin board system that he designed and implemented at the station in 1980–81, an early example of the networked communications that we take for granted in today’s world of Twitter and Facebook. Other works in the exhibition chart the process of selecting and digitally preserving “Women’s Week” (1972), an early reel-to-reel videotape from the GrassRoots archive that has been unviewable for decades.

Simon Denny (born 1982 in Auckland, New Zealand) graduated from the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include Cruise Line, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany; Chronic Expectation: CFS/ME Documentary Restoration, T293, Rome; Corporate Video Decisions, Michael Lett, Auckland, and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2011); Negative Headroom: The Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany; and Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2010). Recent group exhibitions include That's the way we do it: The Techniques and Aesthetic of Appropriation from Ei Arakawa to Andy Warhol, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; and Based in Berlin, KW Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2011).

Simon Denny: Full Participation is organized by the AAM and funded in part by the AAM National Council. Exhibition lectures are presented as part of the Questrom Lecture Series and educational outreach programming is made possible by the Questrom Education Fund.

Thursday, May 31, 6 pm
Join us for I Don’t Get It, a light-hearted and no-questions-barred conversation about the Simon Denny exhibition with community members and AAM Curator Jacob Proctor.

Thursday, June 28, 5 pm
A members-only gallery walkthrough with AAM Curator Jacob Proctor and AAM CEO and Director, Chief Curator, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson in conjunction with the exhibitions Simon Denny: Full Participation and The Residue of Memory.

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Image: Richard Misrach, Untitled (New Orleans and the Gulf Coast), 2005. Image © Richard Misrach, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.

Jeff Murcko
Communications Director 970.925.8050 jmurcko@aspenartmuseum.org

Opening reception: Thursday, June 28, 6–8 pm

Aspen Art Museum
590 North Mill Street Aspen, CO 81611
Hours:
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
Sunday, noon–6 p.m.
Closed Mondays and major holidays.
Admission:
Free courtesy of John and Amy Phelan

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