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6/9/2012

Three exhibitions

Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis

Jonathan Horowitz — Your Land, My Land: Election ‘12
Sep 7, 2012 - Nov 11, 2012

This exhibition reconfigures a project by Jonathan Horowitz originally titled November 4, 2008 and presented at Gavin Brown’s enterprise in New York during the previous American Presidential election. It was a montage of sculpture, photographs, and video that organized the gallery space into red and blue zones to reflect the American color-coding of its bipartisan political system. Central to the entire exhibition was the actual space of the gallery, a room that the artist subdivided into contrasting sections that also functioned as a comfortable place from which to view two centrally suspended televisions — back to back — one broadcasting programming on Fox News and the other programming on CNN. The exhibition — which will be presented simultaneously at other institutions in the United States (Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh; Hammer Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston;Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; Telfair Museums; and New Museum.) — will transform CAM’s lobby into a space for collective reflection on the election process, for shared social experience, and for dialogue and exchange.

To post your comments on the presidential election and for more information on Jonathan Horowitz, Your Land/My Land: Election ’12, please visit www.yourlandmyland.us
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN WATCH PARTIES
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 / MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 / TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6
7:00 – 10:00 PM / DEBATES: 8:00 PM

Free and open to the public. Food truck on site.

We invite you to make CAM your go-to-place for watching the 2012 Presidential Election.

October 11 – Vice Presidential Debate
October 22 – Final Presidential Debate
November 6 – Election Night

Need more information on the election or want to stay engaged? Visit Beyond November, a collaboration of trusted public media organizations: Nine Network of Public Media, the St. Louis Beacon, and St. Louis Public Radio. Beyond November acts as a resource for politics and public policy issues that matter to voters in the St. Louis region.

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Jonathan Horowitz was born in 1966 and lives and works in New York City. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland (2010); PS1 MoMA, New York; and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2009); and the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford (2003); and in group exhibitions such as Day of the Locust at White Flag Projects, St. Louis (2011); Secret Societies at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2011); Sudden White at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2008); and Lines, Grids, Stains, Words at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007).

This exhibition is organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and curated by Dominic Molon, Chief Curator.

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Rosa Barba: Desert — Performed
Sep 7, 2012 - Dec 30, 2012

The work of Rosa Barba makes unconventional and inventive use of cinematic effects, mediums, and modes of presentation. Her installations and objects engage essential filmic components such as celluloid, projection, light, and sound to present historical narratives and examinations of geographical locations while heightening our awareness of film’s material properties. Light projections and modified projector-sculptures function as physically-present objects in the gallery that also convey information; in other words, film for Barba serves as both subject and object. CAM’s presentation is her first solo exhibition in a museum in the United States and marks the American debut for a series of works focusing on California’s Mojave Desert.

On the occasion of this exhibition, CAM has produced the latest edition in Barba's ongoing Printed Cinema artist's book series, Printed Cinema #13: Desert—Performed.

Rosa Barba (b. 1972, Agrigento, Sicily) currently lives and works in Berlin. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich (2012); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2012); Fondazione Galleria Civica – Center of Research on Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy (2011); MART, Rovereto, Italy (2011); Tate Modern, London (2010); Villa Romana, Florence (2008); and Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2008). In 2013, her work will appear in solo exhibitions at Cornerhouse, Manchester; Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; and MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Léon, Spain. In 2010, she curated the exhibition, A Curated Conference: On the Future of Collective Strength within an Archive at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. In 2008, Dia Art Foundation in New York commissioned Barba’s first web-based project, Vertiginous Mapping. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2009); Kunsthalle, Basel (2008); Torino Triennale, Turin (2008); and Sculpture Center, New York (2008); among many others. Barba is the recipient of several prizes, including the Nam June Paik Award (2010) and a DAAD Grant (2003), both in Germany. She studied at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and has attended several residency programs including IASPIS, Stockholm (2007-08), and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2003-04).

This exhibition is organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and curated by Kelly Shindler, Assistant Curator.

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Leslie Hewitt: Sudden glare of the sun
Sep 7, 2012 - Dec 30, 2012

This exhibition will be the most significant presentation to date in an American museum of New York-based artist Leslie Hewitt. Her work challenges our understanding of photography as a purely pictorial medium through an approach that emphasizes its sculptural potential. Hewitt repositions and re-contextualizes books, documents, family photographs, and other everyday objects that possess personal, historical, and political significance to demonstrate “the transformative power of circumstance or situation.” Her work also reflects a studied interest in the illusory qualities of film—particularly its ability to expand and compress our perception of time and space—and sculpture’s emphasis on the presence of objects and how they alter our physical experience of the world.

Leslie Hewitt was born in 1977 and lives and works in New York. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2011) and The Kitchen, New York (2010). Her work has appeared in the group exhibition The Anxiety of Photography, at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (2011); Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); and in the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

This exhibition is organized by the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis and curated by Dominic Molon, Chief Curator.

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Lauren Adams
Sep 7, 2012 - Oct 14, 2012

Lauren Adams (b. 1979, Snow Hill, NC; lives and works in Baltimore, MD) mines the histories of early exploration, colonialism, and industrialization to make new and surprising connections that resonate with current sociopolitical issues. Working in a variety of media, from paintings and drawings to textiles and printmaking, she calls attention to obscure historical events and phenomena to explore the relationship between power, labor, and material culture. Inspired by historical decorative forms and designs such as Chinoiserie-style wallpaper, Elizabethan-era dress, pirate flags, and Soviet avant-garde agitprop from the early twentieth century, Adams’s hybrid objects and installations are purposely anachronistic and deeply relevant for suggesting how we value labor and its attendant outcomes today. Adams will present new work in her Front Room exhibition, as well as in a satellite exhibition curated by CAM at the inaugural ExpoChicago art fair (September 19-23, 2012; Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60611).

Image: Rosa Barba

Press contact
Unitey Kull at 314.535.0770 x203 / ukull@camstl.org

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