Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College
Diego Barboza
Artur Barrio
Luis Benedit
Mel Bochner
Donald Burgy
Luis Camnitzer
Sigfredo Chacon
Eduardo Costa
Jaime Davidovich
Iole de Freitas
Antonio Dias
Juan Downey
Felipe Ehrenberg
Rafael Ferrer
Anna Bella Geiger
Rubens Gerchman
Víctor Grippo
Leandro Katz
Joseph Kosuth
David Lamelas
Sol LeWitt
Lucy Lippard
Cildo Meireles
Ana Mendieta
Marta Minujín
Hélio Oiticica
Clemente Padín
Claudio Perna
John Perreault
Liliana Porter
Alejandro Puente
Carlos Rojas
Ed Ruscha
Bernardo Salcedo
Lawrence Weiner
Horacio Zabala
In Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978. Works by Anna Bella Geiger, Rubens Gerchman, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Marta Minujin, Claudio Perna and many more.
Artists: Diego Barboza, Artur Barrio, Luis Benedit, Mel Bochner, Donald Burgy, Luis Camnitzer, Sigfredo Chacón, Eduardo Costa, Jaime Davidovich, Iole de Freitas, Antonio Dias, Juan Downey, Felipe Ehrenberg, Rafael Ferrer, Anna Bella Geiger, Rubens Gerchman, Víctor Grippo, Leandro Katz, Joseph Kosuth, David Lamelas, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujín, Hélio Oiticica, Clemente Padín, Claudio Perna, John Perreault, Liliana Porter, Alejandro Puente, Carlos Rojas, Ed Ruscha, Bernardo Salcedo, Lawrence Weiner, Horacio Zabala.
Eco's concept of the Open Work—an artwork that could not be completed without the viewer's participation—was highly useful for Latin American conceptualists from the late 1960s through the 1970s because it named the collaborative and performative emphasis of their artworks. Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978 displays the capacious nature of conceptualism by exhibiting 91 books, video, sound, prints, drawings, installations and photography by 36 artists working in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, New York, London, Los Angeles, Montevideo and Caracas. Although not a historical survey, the show presents a collective desire to use the body to destabilize systems of representation shared by artists from Latin America working in conceptual modes from 1967 to 1978.
Open Work in Latin America, New York and Beyond includes some 90 works that have been generously lent to Hunter College from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henrique Faria Fine Art, Document Art Gallery, and Alexander Gray Associates.
Hunter College is deeply grateful to the following donors, whose generous support has made this exhibition possible, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and The Bershad Exhibition Fund.
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Opening reception: Thursday, February 7, 6–8pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College
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Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 1 - 6pm