Jack Goldstein x 10,000
dal 9/5/2013 al 28/9/2013
Segnalato da
9/5/2013
Jack Goldstein x 10,000
The Jewish Museum, New York
This comprehensive exhibition frames Goldstein as a central figure of the Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s and showcases his influential paintings and films, while also including installations, writings, and pioneering sound recordings.
curated by guest curator Philipp Kaiser and Joanna Montoya, Neubauer Family Foundation Assistant Curator.
The first American retrospective of the Canadian-born artist Jack Goldstein (1945 - 2003) brings to light his important legacy. This comprehensive exhibition frames Goldstein as a central figure of the Pictures Generation of the 1970s and 1980s and showcases his influential paintings and films, while also including installations, writings, and pioneering sound recordings. The artists of the Pictures Generation, such as Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Laurie Simmons, Barbara Kruger, David Salle and Robert Longo, explored a new stylistic vocabulary grounded in their interest in popular culture, appropriating images from books, magazines, advertisements, television, and film.
Goldstein transformed, restaged, and remade films in such a way as to strip out specific details, context, and function. Exhibition highlights include his celebrated film of a growling Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion. Another signature work is the film The Jump featuring a leaping diver, performing a somersault and disintegrating into fragments. Given Goldstein's legacy and his increasing relevance to younger artists, this long overdue retrospective is essential to a larger re-evaluation of post-1960s American art.
The artist
Born to a Jewish family in Montreal in 1945, Jack Goldstein moved to Los Angeles as a child, and he lived and worked in Los Angeles and New York City. He studied in the late 1960s at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and then at the newly founded California Institute of the Arts under John Baldessari. In 1972 he became one of the first recipients of a CalArts Master of Fine Arts degree, and in 1977 was included in the seminal exhibition Pictures at Artists Space in New York.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 240-page, fully illustrated catalogue co-published with Prestel which is available from The Jewish Museum’s Cooper Shop for $49.95. Included are essays by Philipp Kaiser, Douglas Crimp, and Alexander Dumbadze, as well as a photo essay by James Welling. The catalogue also includes a previously unpublished 2001 interview with Goldstein by artist Meg Cranston.
Symposium: Who is Jack Goldstein?
Sunday, September 22, 12:30–4:30pm
This extended day of discussion brings together a number of artists who emerged alongside Jack Goldstein in the 1970s, with a focus on the legendary Pictures exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp in 1977 as well as the influential post-studio classes of John Baldessari at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, where Goldstein received his MFA. Panel discussions examine the particular circumstances of the art world during the '70s and '80s along with the impact of the Pictures Generation on artists today. Artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher presents the keynote lecture and panelists include artists Robert Longo, Matt Mullican, Troy Brauntuch, James Welling, Kathryn Andrews, and Paul Pfeiffer, among others.
Writers and Artists Respond: Goldsmith/Goldstein
Thursday, May 30, 6:30pm
Poet, practitioner, and founder of UbuWeb Kenneth Goldsmith responds to the exhibition as part of Writers and Artists Respond, a series of discussions and performances in the Museum's galleries. Free with pay what you wish admission.
JACK GOLDSTEIN x 10,000 was organized by the Orange County Museum of Art.
The exhibition is made possible by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Additional support is provided by Jean and Tim Weiss, the National Endowment for the Arts, Barbara and Victor L. Klein, and Karyn D. Kohl.
The Jewish Museum presentation is made possible by the Melva Bucksbaum Fund for Contemporary Art. Generous support is also provided by Venus Over Manhattan.
Image: Shane, 1975. 16mm film; color; sound, 3 min. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne and the Estate of Jack Goldstein
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