Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude
dal 9/5/2003 al 6/7/2003
Segnalato da
Matthew Antezzo
Marco Arce
Michael Blum
Jennifer Bolande
Carol Bove
Tacita Dean
Jessica Diamond
Frank Egloff
General Idea
AA Bronson
Luis Gispert
GranFury
Richard Hamilton
Danny Hobart
Michael Hurson
Deborah Kass
Rachel Lachowicz
Sean Landers
Simon Leung
Sherrie Levine
Glenn Ligon
Matts Leiderstam
Melanie Manchot
Matt Marello
Marlene McCarty
Paul McCarthy
Mike Kelley
Yasumasa Morimura
Stuart Netsky
John O'Reilly
Henrik Olesen
Clifford Owens
Elaine Reichek
Emily Roysdon
Sturtevant
Bill Arning
9/5/2003
Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
The work of over twenty international artists in all mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance. These artists conspicuously make references to other works of art in order to interrogate the often-problematic relationship of today's artists to the tradition from which they spring.
Curator: Bill Arning
Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude features the work of over twenty international artists in all mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance. These artists conspicuously make references to other works of art in order to interrogate the often-problematic relationship of today's artists to the tradition from which they spring. These artists wish to better understand the true nature of art production, the writing of art-cultural histories, the formation and reformulations of canons, the imperative of creative acts, and the succession of art acts over time.
Influence was a standard way of understanding art and creative acts that today has fallen into disfavor as an interpretive tool. Seen as romantic and imprecise, influence is deemed too tied to biography and too prone to reinforcing the patriarchy and values of the master narrative. Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude seeks to reconsider the concept of influence as it functions in an art world of diverse practices and parishioners who work in a multitude of locations and mediums. By examining how artists choose to acknowledge their forerunners, and how these artists choose to position their work in relationship to their chosen sources, Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude will reveal reasons behind the ongoing desire to create work with a comprehensible past and a rich pool of associations, leading to an ongoing future dialogue of inexhaustible potential.
Artist list: Matthew Antezzo, Marco Arce, Michael Blum, Jennifer Bolande, Carol Bove, Tacita Dean, Jessica Diamond, Frank Egloff, General Idea / AA Bronson, Luis Gispert, GranFury, Richard Hamilton, Danny Hobart, Michael Hurson, Deborah Kass, Rachel Lachowicz, Sean Landers, Simon Leung, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Matts Leiderstam, Melanie Manchot, Matt Marello, Marlene McCarty, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Yasumasa Morimura, Stuart Netsky, John O'Reilly, Henrik Olesen, Clifford Owens, Elaine Reichek, Emily Roysdon, and Sturtevant.
Influence, Anxiety & Gratitude is made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Council for the Arts at MIT, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Embassy of Sweden, the Edward and Marjorie Goldberger Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Canadian Consulate General in Boston, IASPIS, the Boston Cyberarts Festival and The Boston Phoenix.
This presentation is part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, 2003.
May 8 - Jul. 6, 2003
Main Galleries
Opening Reception: Friday, May 9, 5:30 - 7:30PM
Opening Events: Saturday, May 10
2:30PM, Hayden Gallery
Performance: General Idea/AA Bronson:Triple XXX Rose
3:30PM,in the galleries
Artist Talk: Simon Leung Rethinking Marcel Duchamp
2 - 6PM, Hayden Gallery
Performance: Stuart Netsky: Mile Long Drawing/Muffler (after DeMaria)
The List Visual Arts Center
20 Ames Street Building E15, Atrium level
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
617-253-4680