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27/2/2002

Hickey lectures

Dia Art Foundation, New York

Hickey lectures on Alfred Jensen as part of the Robert Lehman Lectures onContemporary Art

Critic Dave Hickey lectures on Alfred Jensen (1903-1981) in association with Concordance, an exhibition of key works by Jensen currently on view at Dia Center for the Arts. Jensen's highly respected but rarely seen paintings elaborate his cosmological theories, drawing on the sciences of astronomy, physics, and mathematics, and frequently involving Mayan and Chinese calendrical systems. Among the highlights of the exhibition, which spans Jensen's mature career, beginning in 1960, is The Great Pyramid (1980), a key late work never before exhibited publicly.
Concordance is on view at Dia through June 16, 2002.

Thursday, February 28, 2002, 6:30 pm

Alfred Jensen was born in 1903 in Guatemala to a Danish father and a Polish-German mother. He spent his early years in Denmark; in the mid-1920s, among other training, he briefly attended Hans Hoffman's art school in Munich and academies in Paris. He traveled widely until 1951, when he settled in New York City. In 1977 Jensen represented the United States at the fourteenth São Paulo Bienal with work that subsequently traveled to six cities in the United States. In 1985, a posthumous retrospective was held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Jensen's paintings are in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Dave Hickey is professor of art theory and criticism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Last year he curated SITE Santa Fe's Fourth Biennial. Hickey's publications include Air Guitar: Art and Democracy (Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies, 1997), The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies, 1993), and a book of short stories, Prior Conviction: Stories from the Sixties (Southern Methodist University Press, 1989). In 2001, Hickey became a MacArthur Fellow.

ADMISSION
$6, $3 for Dia members, students, and seniors. Admission includes entrance to Dia's galleries.

ROBERT LEHMAN LECUTRES ON CONTEMPORARY ART
Since 1992, the Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc., has provided generous support for the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. Lecturers from a variety of disciplines analyze artworks shown at Dia within the context of the artist's oeuvre and in relation to contemporary cultural issues.

DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Dia Center for the Arts is a project of the Dia Art Foundation. Founded in 1974, the Dia Art Foundation is dedicated to supporting, presenting, and preserving artworks in nearly every medium, and to serving as a locus for interdisciplinary art and criticism. Programming at Dia Center for the Arts, in Chelsea, New York, includes temporary exhibitions, commissioned artists' projects for the web, lectures, poetry readings, film and video screenings, performances, scholarly research and publications, symposia, and an arts education program that serves area students.

Exhibition hours at Dia Center for the Arts during the 2001-2002 season are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 6pm, through June 16, 2002.

Dia Center for the Arts,
548 West 22nd Street (between 10th and 11th avenues), New York City

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