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2/2/2011

Arturo Herrera

The Americas Society, New York

Americas Society is proud to introduce Arturo Herrera’s groundbreaking installation Les Noces, the artist’s first work to incorporate music and moving images to New York audiences. Herrera is internationally renowned for his explorations of a wide variety of different media, including collage, sculpture, photography, prints, and, more recently, video. His practice is deeply informed by the history of modernist abstraction.

Les Noces is a two-channel video projection based on the 1923 ballet of the same name, scored by the composer Igor Stravinsky for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. Herrera has digitally reworked fragments of his own works as well as leftovers gathered from his studio into an ever-shifting dance of abstract black-and-white images set to Stravinsky’s music. This chance-based process intentionally invokes the mutable nature of performance as well as the transformative power of collage: no dance is ever performed exactly the same way twice. The use of Stravinsky’s complex music score in conjunction with fragmented materials animated and projected as moving images also addresses the difficulty to make abstraction an intelligible process.

The exhibition will also feature works on paper, sculptures, reliefs, collages, photography, and felt wall-hangings in which Herrera’s deconstructive process becomes transparent and links to the moving images. The exhibition reconsiders Herrera’s approach to collage and abstraction as one of the most important experimental work to have emerged after the 1990s.

Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition: Chevron, Mercantil, and Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Arturo Herrera was born in 1959 in Caracas, Venezuela. He received a BA from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 2003, Herrera has lived and worked in Berlin. He was the recipient of the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst's Fellowship (DAAD), as well as the Guggenheim and the Pollock-Krasner awards. Herrera has exhibited extensively throughout the world at institutions such as, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Le Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva; The Dia Center for the Arts, New York; The Art Institute in Chicago; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

ACCOMPANYING PUBLIC PROGRAMS
• Thursday, February 3, 2011, 7:00-9:00 P.M.
Exhibition Opening

• Monday, February 7, 2011, 6:00 P.M.
Panel Discussion- Exploring Abstraction in Les Noces with guest speakers: Sherry Dobbin (Director, The Watermill Center); Lynn Garafola (Professor of Dance, Barnard College); Arturo Herrera (Artist); Moderated by Gabriela Rangel (Exhibition Curator, Americas Society).

• Wednesday, March 15, 6:00 P.M.
Discussion and Performance: Igor Stravinsky's Influences for Les Noces

Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition: Chevron, Mercantil, and Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky.
We also thank Sikkema Jenkins Gallery for their in-kind support and collaboration.

Americas Society's Visual Arts Program is supported by Sharon Schultz Simpson and in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

All our culture programs are free, and open to the public. We are located at 680 Park Avenue at 68th Street in New York City. To arrive by public transportation, take the 6 train to 68th Street / Hunter College. Map.
For more information, visit www.as-coa.org/VisualArts. If you have questions or comments, please email us at artgallery@as-coa.org

Opening Thursday, February 3 from 7 to 9 pm.

Americas Society Art Gallery
680 Park Ave. at 68 Street
New York, NY 10065
Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 12-6 p.m.

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