7/2/2007
Emergency Room
MoMA PS1, New York
A collaborative exhibition conceived and led by artist Thierry Geoffroy, a.k.a. Colonel. To realize this project, he has invited over thirty local and international artists to create and install new works in a range of media, all generated daily in response to current events. Artists will come with very different methodologies, from the politically charged to the personally intimate, to interact with a specific space and develop an on-going project together.
Group show
Organized by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss.
P.S.1 proudly presents
Emergency Room, a constantly evolving collaborative exhibition
conceived and led by artist Thierry Geoffroy, a.k.a. Colonel. To realize this
project, Geoffroy has invited over thirty local and international artists to
create and install new works in a range of media, all generated daily in
response to current events. Emergency Room is on view in the third floor
Archive Galleries from February 8 through March 19, 2007.
Emergency Room is motivated by a desire to learn what other artists think
about current affairs from varied international perspectives under strict time
constraints. By providing a physical space in which artists can display
works made in reaction to current events, Emergency Room takes the
pulse of the artistic community today. On each day of the exhibition,
artists will install new work in response to the events of the last 24 hours,
an arrangement that recalls daily news cycles. The artworks stay on view
until the next morning whenthey are moved to an adjacent archive space
and replaced by new work.
Emergency Room seeks to foster a sense of community among the
participating artists and an atmosphere in which the gallery serves as a
laboratory both for personal expression and formal experimentation. Artists
will come with very different methodologies, from the politically charged to
the personally intimate, to interact with a specific space and develop an
on-going project together.
French-born Thierry Geoffroy (b. 1961) has presented his art internationally
since 1995. Recently, he had solo exhibitions at Overgaden Institute for
Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; IKM Museum, Oslo, Norway;
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands; Sprengel Museum, Hannover,
Germany; and Devron Arts, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 2006,
Geoffroy presented Emergency Room at Galerie Olaf Stuber, Berlin; and
Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen. He received the Chevalier des Arts et des
Lettres from France in 2003. Geoffroy will present a project at the 2007
Venice Biennale.
Image: Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel, A great painter
Opening: February 8 2007
Press Contact: Sarah McLemore, Press Associate, sarah@ps1.org or 718.784.4729
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