28/6/2005
Philosophical Toys
Apexart, New York
An invited writer - Sina Najafi - selectes two gallerists to each choose two artists whom they do not represent for a group exhibition, with the writer contributing a text. An exhibition featuring Friedrich Froebel, Jeannine Mosely, and Shea Zellweger, selected by Norman Brosterman and Christine & Margaret Wertheim
Organized by Sina Najafi
An invited writer - Sina Najafi - selectes two gallerists to each choose two artists whom they do not represent for a group exhibition, with the writer contributing a text.
Artists: Friedrich Fröebel, Jeannine Mosely, and Shea Zellweger
Selected by Norman Brosterman and Christine & Margaret Wertheim
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Wed, June 29, 6 - 8 pm: Opening reception
Thurs, June 30, 6:30 pm: Christine Wertheim on the work of Shea Zellweger
Wed, July 13, 6:30 pm: Norman Brosterman on the invention of Kindergarten
The tactile, visual, and philosophical fuse in this exhibition, historically anchored in the "gifts" innovated in the 1830s by Friedrich Fröebel, the inventor of Kindergarten. The historical and contemporary works featured prove that if combined with visual and material pleasure, learning even the most abstract thought can be made into a wondrous experience—literally, child's play.
Invited by apexart to invite two art dealers to select artists for the exhibition, Sina Najafi, Editor-in-Chief of Cabinet magazine, has invited the participation of private art dealers / writers Norman Brosterman (author, Inventing Kindergarten) and Christine & Margaret Wertheim (co-founders, The Institute For Figuring, Los Angeles).
Mr. Brosterman has chosen works by Friedrich Fröebel, the crystallographer who invented Kindergarten, and a collection of unattributed 19th-century exercise books and parquetry puzzles. The Wertheims have selected works by Jeannine Mosely, an MIT-trained electrical engineer who is one of the world's most renowned paper folders, and Shea Zellweger, a self-taught logician who has devised a visual alphabet for revealing the geometry behind logic operations.
Sina Najafi is Editor-in-Chief of Cabinet Magazine, New York
Gallery hours are Tues - Sat, 11-6.
Apexart
291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013