Three exhibitions
dal 15/1/2013 al 12/3/2013
Segnalato da
15/1/2013
Three exhibitions
The Drawing Center, New York
Singh takes interviews that the artist conducted throughout 2011 with noted scientists, artists, writers, and filmmakers, and transforms them into fictional dialogues. Uriarte converts the information, skills, and objects encountered in the workplace into explorations of plane geometry and pure abstraction. Weeks provides a meditation on recent Peruvian history in the form of a double slide projection.
The Pledge - Alexandre Sing
Curated by Claire Gilman
The first North American museum exhibition of works by Alexandre Singh, this presentation will be comprised of the artist’s new series of Assembly Instructions entitled The Pledge. This project takes interviews that the artist conducted throughout 2011 with noted scientists, artists, writers, and filmmakers, and transforms them into fictional dialogues visualized according to Singh’s signature format of collaged photocopies connected by hand-drawn pencil dots on the wall. Filling the Main Gallery, Singh’s fictionalized—and spatialized—interviews will position drawing not only as a physical gesture, but also as a graphic conduit for the imaginative process.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alexandre Singh (b. 1980) is a visual artist and writer based in New York. His work derives at once
from traditions in literature, performance, photo-conceptualism, and object-based installation art.
Taking in such diverse genres as writing, collage, installation, and performance, Singh’s works are
characterized by obsessive details and linkages that draw upon a dizzying constellation of themes
and characters. Singh is currently in residency at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in
Rotterdam to write, produce, and direct a play entitled The Humans, which will be performed
during the autumn of 2013.
Singh has exhibited in venues throughout Europe and the United
States, including Serpentine Gallery, London; the New Museum, New York; MoMA PS1, New
York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Sprüth Magers, Berlin.
His work is held by a number of private and public collections including MoMA, New York, and
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Thursday March 7, at 12:30pm
Walk-through of Alexandre Singh: The Pledge with artist Alexandre Singh and curator Claire
Gilman.
Friday March 8, 6:30 pm
Conversation with the artist and The New Yorker's Andrea Scott.
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Line of Work - Ignacio Uriarte
Curated by Joanna Kleinberg
The Drawing Center is pleased to present the first North American solo museum exhibition of work by the Berlin-based artist Ignacio Uriarte. Inspired by his former career in business administration, Uriarte showcases the aesthetics of the office and its travails. Creating what he can with what is immediately available to him, Uriarte converts the information, skills, and objects encountered in the workplace into explorations of plane geometry and pure abstraction. His drawings, at turns bold and subtle, improvised and predetermined, occupy a zone somewhere between the febrile forces of the imagination and the stultifying culture of office life. This exhibition is curated by Joanna Kleinberg Romanow, Assistant Curator.
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Ishmael Randall Weeks - Cuts, Burns, Punctures
Curated by Claire Gilman
This project by Peruvian born, New York and Cusco-based artist Ishmael Randall Weeks will provide a meditation on recent Peruvian history in the form of a double slide projection using found slides that Weeks burns, punctures, cuts, and draws upon. As the slides move in and out of focus and Weeks’ intervention ranges from minimal to extreme, he develops a personalized narrative response to the politically and socially charged moment of 1970s and ’80s Peru—among the most violent periods in recent history.
The Mario Gradowczyk Public Program Series supports programming related to the institution’s Latin American exhibitions and other public programs inspired by critical issues in contemporary drawing and is funded by Felisa Gradowczyk, Diego Gradowczyk, and Isabella Hutchinson.
For further information and images, please contact
Molly Gross, Communications Director, The Drawing Center
212 219 2166 x119 | mgross@drawingcenter.org
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 16, 6-8pm
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, New York
Hours: Wed-Sun, 12-6pm; Thurs, 12-8pm
Tickets are $5 adults, $3 student and seniors, children under 12 are free