High Times, Hard Times
dal 27/3/2008 al 31/5/2008
Segnalato da
Jo Baer
Lynda Benglis
Mel Bochner
Dan Christensen
Roy Colmer
Mary Corse
David Diao
Manny Farber
Louise Fishman
Guy Goodwin
Ron Gorchov
Harmony Hammond
Mary Heilmann
Ralph Humphrey
Jane Kaufman
Harriet Korman
Yayoi Kusama
Al Loving
Lee Lozano
Ree Morton
Elizabeth Murray
Joe Overstreet
Blinky Palermo
Cesar Paternosto
Howardena Pindell
Dorothea Rockburne
Carolee Schneemann
Alan Shields
Kenneth Showell
Joan Snyder
Lawrence Stafford
Pat Steir
Richard Tuttle
Richard Van Buren
Michael Venezia
Franz Erhard Walther
| Jack Whitten
Peter Young
27/3/2008
High Times, Hard Times
ZKM_Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
The exhibition, which recounts the development from 1967 to 1975 in five different thematic blocks, collects approximately 50 works from 40 artists living and working in New York at the time. Yayoi Kusama, Alan Shields, Lee Lozano, Richard Tuttle, Mary Heilmann, and others evolved-influenced by the social transformation and burning political issues of the late 1960s and early 1970s-works that expressed joy, passion, anger, and the limits of imagination. Curated by Katy Siegel with David Reed.
curated by Katy Siegel with David Reed
In the late 1960s, New York's art world was an exciting place. New media such as performance and video art were being discovered and sculpture was rapidly developing in a variety of directions. High Times, Hard Times recalls this era's vibrancy and significance. Experimental, abstract painting played a major role and explored the medium's borders.
The exhibition, which recounts the development from 1967 to 1975 in five different thematic blocks, collects approximately 50 works from 40 artists living and working in New York at the time. Yayoi Kusama, Alan Shields, Lee Lozano, Richard Tuttle, Mary Heilmann, and others evolved-influenced by the social transformation and burning political issues of the late 1960s and early 1970s-works that expressed joy, passion, anger, and the limits of imagination. At the same time, they expanded the conventional concepts of what painting could possibly mean. Nearly half of the abstract painters whose works are presented in High Times, Hard Times are women who were ignored by the influential art critics during their creative period. In the works of these women, the critics saw merely the production of an eccentric expression, and no renewal of the medium, per se. Afro-American artists, such as Al Loving, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, and Jack Whitten; as well as artists from abroad who lived for a time in New York (Yayoi Kusama, Blinky Palermo, César Paternosto, and Franz Erhard Walther), were likewise denied official recognition.
The exhibition High Times, Hard Times shows images from a time of great transformation: the experiments with surfaces, the picture carrier, space; with installation, video, and performance thus surround and embody the liberal spirit of this era as well as painting's possibilities as medium.
High Times, Hard Times promises the rediscovery of a forgotten slice of art history. Subsequent to »MindFrames. Media Study at Buffalo 1973-1990,« the ZKM | Karlsruhe is again devoting an exhibition to the examination of art's development and the influential trends in the 1960s and 1970s.
Curated by Katy Siegel, artistic advisor David Reed.
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975 is a traveling exhibition organized by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York. Katy Siegel is guest curator of the exhibition, and David Reed is her artistic advisor. Exhibition, tour, and catalogue were made possible by the support of the Peter Norton Family Foundation; the Dedalus Foundation, Inc.; the iCI International Associates; and the iCI Exhibition Partners Kenneth S. Kuchin, as well as Gerrit and Sydie Lansing.
Opening: Fri, 28 March at 7pm in the exhibition
Sat, 29 March 4pm, ZKM_Lecture hall: Curators talk with David Reed, Katy Siegel, Joan Snyder, and Peter Weibel
ZKM_Center for Art and Media
Lorenzstrasse 19 - Karlsruhe