Two exhibitions
dal 10/9/2008 al 8/10/2008
Segnalato da
10/9/2008
Two exhibitions
The Drawing Center, New York
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Demonstration Drawings. By providing a perspectival view of collective actions, political protests, and popular sovereignty movements, the works confront commonly-held assumptions about globalization, democratic mass movements, and ongoing forms of resistance to economic liberalism. Kathleen Henderson presents ambiguous scenarios where seemingly innocent interactions between people hold implications of violence, or where brutality lurks behind a potentially playful situation.
Rirkrit Tiravanija - Demonstration Drawings
The Drawing Center will present Rirkrit Tiravanija: Demonstration Drawings, in the Main Gallery. This exhibition, featuring approximately 200 works on paper, will be the first U.S. museum exhibition of the artist’s ongoing series of commissioned drawings derived from photographs of demonstrations published in the International Herald Tribune.
While public protests and mass demonstrations are often associated with the leftist politics of the 1960s, Tiravanija’s project reconsiders their relevance in today’s political climate. For the Demonstration Drawings, Tiravanija has commissioned Thai artists, many of them former students, to create a series of photorealistic pencil drawings depicting multifarious responses to power, oppression, and global capital. Tiravanija’s drawings translate photojournalist depictions of acts of political spontaneity into a medium itself characterized by immediacy—turning ephemeral images of strife and social conflict into documents of political aspiration.
By providing a perspectival view of collective actions, political protests, and popular sovereignty movements worldwide, the Demonstration Drawings confront commonly-held assumptions about globalization, democratic mass movements, and ongoing forms of resistance to economic liberalism. This exhibition is curated by João Ribas.
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Kathleen Henderson - What if I Could Draw a Bird that Could Save the World?
curated by Nina Katchadourian
From September 12 to October 9, 2008, The Drawing Center will present Kathleen Henderson:?What if I?Could Draw a Bird that Could Change the World??in the Drawing Room. The Selections Fall 2008 exhibition departs from past Selections shows by featuring the work of a singular Viewing Program artist.
Henderson works in the studio with the radio on, the sounds of talking pundits and news reports filtering through her onto the page. While not a direct representation of the stories she hears, Henderson’s work ruminates on issues that infiltrate our lives and inform our respective viewpoints. Using her chosen medium of oil stick on paper, Henderson creates a sparse, tense, and energetic line to make drawings that are at turns comic, perverse, poignant, and brutal. She presents ambiguous scenarios where seemingly innocent interactions between people hold implications of violence, or where brutality lurks behind a potentially playful situation. By offering up disquieting representations of patterns of human behavior, Henderson’s work asks us to consider our own complicity in, and capacity for, violence as well as benevolence. This exhibition is curated by Nina Katchadourian, Viewing Program Curator.
Image: Rirkrit Tiravanija
Opening: Thursday, September 11, 6 - 8PM
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street - New York