Two exhibitions
dal 24/2/2011 al 4/9/2011
Segnalato da
24/2/2011
Two exhibitions
CAC Contemporarty Arts Center, Cincinnati
Keith Haring: 1978-1982: focusing strictly on the early years, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the artist's manifold maturing process. It includes drawings and sketchbooks, videos, flyers, posters, photographs and subway drawings, as well as word collages, texts, and diaries. The work of Jimmy Baker merges traditional painting techniques with digital printing, combining landscapes with deconstructed images of human figures and forms.
Keith Haring: 1978-1982
curated by Raphaela Platow, Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator, Contemporary Arts Center.
Co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center and Kunsthalle Wien.
The public has a right to art. Art is for everybody.
-Keith Haring
Keith Haring ranks among the most iconic, influential and popular artists in the world. Twenty years after his death, this is a rare and in-depth look at the prolific early years that established Haring’s language as an artist, his politics and social conscience, and his open homosexuality. This historic exhibition of rarely exhibited early work chronicles Haring's arrival in New York City (from his native Pennsylvania) and his immersion in New York’s dynamic downtown culture. It explores the vibrant and experimental years when Haring first enrolled in the School of Visual Arts, started a diligent and vigorous studio practice, began making public and political art on the city streets and subway stations, and enjoyed a frenetic social life. Joining an art community outside the institutionalized art system, Haring quickly befriended fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as many of the most innovative musicians, performance artists and graffiti writers of the period.
The exhibition delves into aspects of the artist’s life and production that have received insufficient attention to date: Haring as a thinker and facilitator, and his work as highly experimental and performative. It includes drawings and sketchbooks, videos, flyers, posters, photographs and subway drawings, as well as word collages, texts, and diaries. The exhibition offers an impression of Haring’s manifold maturation process, traces the development of his visual vocabulary and influences, and shows the artist as a philosopher and untiring initiator of artistic and political activities.
Keith Haring: 1978-1982 contains some mature content. This groundbreaking exhibition is co-organized with the Kunsthalle Wien. Keith Haring artwork: ©Keith Haring Foundation
A special thanks to the sponsors who make this exhibition possible:
James A. and Mary Miller
Allan Berliant and Jennie Rosenthal Berliant; Susan and Bill Friedlander
The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation (Public Artworks)
ArtsWave Corporate Partner: P&G
Informations:
http://www.haringkids.com
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February 26 - April 10, 2011
Jimmy Baker
Remote viewing
This exhibition is the first solo museum show for Cincinnati-based artist Jimmy Baker. His work merges traditional painting techniques with digital printing, combining landscapes with deconstructed images of human figures and forms. His arresting paintings oscillate between catastrophes, the glitz of popular culture and the joy of the mundane.
Baker's synthesizing process is multilayered, employing mixed-media construction. He manipulates and repurposes found images from online sources such as social media, news outlets and government websites. He combines the unassuming—celebrities snapped by paparazzi and anonymous pictures of everyday life—with the horrifying—dismembered bodies and explosions photographed by soldiers. He rebuilds a disorienting composite image that creates an uncertainty in the viewer through a confusing interplay of contrasting media, sources and subjects.
He translates this onto canvas through a combination of digital printing and painting techniques. The seamless nature of the digital printing over the painted canvas helps to weave the two processes together, blurring the line between the different media. Through this mash-up, the artist searches for a new chapter in the history of painting. And by interweaving numerous unrelated sources into one composition, he addresses the role context plays in our understanding of images in the all-access world of the 21st century.
For more information, please contact
Holly Cohill. Accounts Payable and HR Manager (513) 345-8426 hcohill@contemporaryartscenter.org
Opening Celebration: Friday, February 25
Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
44 East 6th Street Cincinnati, Ohio