Two exhibitions
dal 13/2/2008 al 12/4/2008
Segnalato da
13/2/2008
Two exhibitions
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Jeremy Deller's exhibition takes, as its starting point, the career and interests of Neil Young. Instead of focusing on his celebrity, the show will examine a number Deller and Young's overlapping concerns, including American identity, history, politics, war, medical innovation, information technologies, and music. The paintings of Beijing-based artist Yan Lei always begin with photographs, digitally reduced to a narrow color range to reveal their own artificiality.
Jeremy Deller: Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me
Jeremy Deller’s exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum takes, as its starting point, the career and interests of Neil Young. Instead of focusing on Neil Young’s celebrity, the exhibition will examine a number Deller and Young’s overlapping concerns, including American identity, history, politics, war, medical innovation, information technologies, and music. Titled Marlon Brando,Pocahontas, and Me, Deller’s exhibition will consist of three components: an exhibition of artworks that address these themes, a symposium, and an accompanying book that will document the symposium.
The installation at the Aspen Art Museum will be curated by Deller. Among the artists invited to participate in the exhibition are Paul Chan, Mark Dion, Peter Doig, Sam Durant, An-My Lê, Dave Muller, and Sean Schneider. Also included in the exhibition will be a variety of historical artwork and ephemera, documenting everything from image making during the Vietnam War, historical paintings of Pocahontas, and Marlon Brando’s involvement with the Civil Rights movement.
The symposium, presented at the Aspen Institute, will address Neil Young as a cultural phenomenon. Featuring leading practitioners in fields related to Deller and Young’s shared interests—medical and information technology; social history; music history; war and war reportage—the symposium will be an interdisciplinary discussion. One of the key speakers on the panel will be Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, Professor of History at University of California, Irvine, and pioneer of a new approach to social history.
The book published on the occasion of the exhibition will synthesize elements of the installation at the Aspen Art Museum and the symposium. It will include images of the works in the exhibition, as well as transcriptions from the presentations and discussions at the symposium.
Jeremy Deller: Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me is organized by the Aspen Art Museum and funded in part by the AAM National Council. Publications underwritten by Toby Lewis with additional support from Danner and Arno Schefler. AAM Art Talks are part of The Questrom Lecture Series.
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Yan Lei: Sparkling - Aspen
The paintings of Beijing-based artist Yan Lei always begin with photographs, digitally reduced to a narrow color range to reveal their own artificiality. Yan Lei reconstructs and analyses images based on his everyday experiences, generally reflecting upon the relationship of the artist to an increasingly globalized art world.
Yan Lei’s works explore the relationship between the artist, culture, and painting. According to the artist, “Painting, after all, is just a mindless re-presentation of an image you might see in a photograph…, the process of making that painting has become superfluous.” Yan Lei’s images hold the viewer at arms length, dissolving into abstract monochromes as the viewer approaches them.
For his exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum—his first one-person museum exhibition in the United States—Yan Lei will produce a new series of paintings informed by the extensive travel itineraries necessary for artists working today and based on the theme of landing, finally, somewhere.
Yan Lei was born in 1965 in Hebei, China; he currently lives and works in Beijing. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, among them, Art in Motion, MoCA Shanghai, China, 2006; CHINA NOW-Fascination of a Changing World, Sammlung Essl, Klostemeuburg, Vienna, Austria, 2006; Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, China, 2005; and China Then, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2003. In 2003, he was selected to participate in the 50th Venice Biennale, and in 2007 his work was included in Documenta XII.
The Aspen Art Museum presentation of Yan Lei’s exhibition is funded in part by the AAM National Council.
The Aspen Art Museum presentation of Sparkling – Aspen is funded in part by the AAM National Council. The publication for this exhibition is underwritten by Vicki and Kent Logan.
Image: Jeremy Deller
opening february 14, 2008
Aspen Art Museum
590 North Mill Street - Aspen