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24/6/2006

Three Exhibitions

MoMA PS1, New York

Into me/out of me

curated by Klaus Biesenbach

(Long Island City, NY - May 23, 2006) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Into Me / Out of Me, a group exhibition about the imagined, descriptive, and performative acts of the passing into, through, and out of the human body. This presentation focuses on the primordial relationship between the internal and the external in three main chapters: metabolism (eating, drinking, excreting), reproduction (intercourse, conception, birth), and violence (shooting, impaling, perforation). Into Me / Out of Me brings together explorations and visualizations of these three processes, which deal with the wet and the dry, the inner and the outer surfaces of the body, and the objects and subjects of the physical exchange of the human body with the material world. The exhibition is on view throughout the first floor of P.S.1, from June 25 through September 25, 2006.

Spanning over 40 years and featuring an international group of artists, Into Me / Out of Me employs a wide range of media to illuminate the literal and metaphorical ways that humans interact with each other and material matter. These daily exchanges are presented within the frameworks of natural science, historical and mythological confrontations, ritualistic practices, and self-exploration. Artists in the exhibition include Marina Abramović, Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Patty Chang, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ana Mendieta, Paul McCarthy, John Miller, Frank Moore, Carolee Schneemann, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, among many others.

Into Me / Out of Me is co-organized by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. It is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, P.S.1 Chief Curator, Curator in the Department of Film and Media at The Museum of Modern Art, and the Founding Director of KW. The exhibition will travel to KW in late 2006. A fully-illustrated publication by KW and P.S.1 will be available in the fall of 2006.

On Sunday, July 9 at 3:00 p.m., artist Carolee Schneemann will give a lecture discussing her work and its relationship to the themes of the exhibition. Tickets to the event are free with museum admission.

Into Me / Out of Me is made possible by the Lawton W. Fitt and James I. McLaren Foundation, Marie-Jose'e and Henry Kravis, Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Enzo Viscusi, Julia Stoschek, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, Richard Anderman, Paul Beirne, Douglas S. Cramer, and The Contemporary Arts Council and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

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Su-Mei Tse

(Long Island City, NY - May 18, 2006) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present Su-Mei Tse’s first solo museum exhibition in New York. Ms. Tse, an artist based in Luxembourg and Paris, will present two new works—a video and a sculptural installation. Su-Mei Tse is on view in the Third Floor Archive galleries from June 25 through September 4, 2006.

In the video Mistelpartition (2006), Tse transforms a stand of trees into a staff for music, composing rhythms from the natural world. It is a meditative experience where visual and aural elements interact in harmony. Similarly, her installation piece Dong, Xi, Nan, Bei (E, W, S, N) (2006) merges text and the visual arts. Self-illuminating neon sculptures suspended from the ceiling depict the Chinese characters for the four cardinal directions. At once literal and abstract, the work investigates language, place, and geography.

A classically trained cellist, Tse creates work that investigates music, rhythm, melody, and dance. Informed by personal experience—her father is a Chinese violinist and mother an English pianist—Tse’s art, which encompasses photography, sculpture, and video, combines the artistic and cultural traditions of both her parents.Su-Mei Tse (b. 1973) has exhibited her work internationally, including The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; and the 50th Venice Biennale where she was awarded the Golden Lion for the Best National Participation in 2003. Most recently, a major exhibition of her work was presented at Casino Luxembourg—Forum d’Art Contemporain. She currently lives and works in Luxembourg and Paris.

Su-Mei Tse is organized by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss.

This exhibition is funded by the Edward Steichen Award, a new biennial competition for young European artists named in honor of the renowned photographer and former director of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. Tse was the first recipient of the prize (2005).

The 2005 Edward Steichen Award has been made possible by the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg Association in honor of the great Luxembourg-born American photographer. This biennial prize provides a cross-cultural artistic and educational bridge between Luxembourg and New York City and is available to European artists between the ages of 25 and 35. The goal of the Edward Steichen Award is to contribute to the fine arts through the organization and support of a six-month artist's residency in New York City, where Steichen spent the longer part of his life. The inaugural award was given in December 2005 by a Luxembourg non-for-profit organization: the E. S. A. Luxembourg asbl.

The Edward Steichen Award is made possible through the cooperation of the family of the late Edward Steichen and through the support of the Ministry of Culture, of Higher Education and Research, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government’s Information and Press Service of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, as well as by the Luxembourg-based companies Arcelor, SES Global, BCEE, and by the Ridgefield Foundation New York and the Luxembourg American Chamber of Commerce New York.

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Double Trouble

(Long Island City, NY - April 25, 2006) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to announce the return of Ron Gorchov, an artist from the institution’s inaugural Rooms (1976) exhibition. Gorchov was one of the 78 artists who participated in creating installation and studio-produced work meant for specific rooms and spaces in the then newly revitalized P.S.1 building. He was also included in a P.S.1 group show in 1979. His newest body of work will be presented in Double Trouble, an ambitious exhibition featuring new and recent paintings, many shown for the first time, and a site-specific free standing stack piece made specifically for P.S.1. Double Trouble is on view in the Third floor Main Gallery from June 25 through September 18, 2006.

Since the late 1960s Gorchov has explored the possibilities of painting as an object rather than as representation. Early in his career, he experimented with the shape of the canvas— as did the artists Frank Stella, Robert Mangold, and Richard Tuttle—and created the original form that has become his signature. Gorchov’s unconventionally shaped canvases have been given many names—saddles, masks, shields—yet none have managed to describe them accurately. Perceptually perplexing by bending both inwards and outwards, the works are simultaneously convex and concave. By employing these shapes Gorchov avoids the traditional “obstacles" of painting, such as negotiating corners, edges, and exact verticals and horizontals. His paintings have a three-dimensional quality, an element inherent in their objectness.

Ron Gorchov (b. 1930) moved from Chicago to New York City in 1953, after having attended University of Mississippi, Oxford; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He had his first solo show at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, in 1960, and has subsequently exhibited at institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and P.S.1. Gorchov’s paintings are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He currently lives and works in New York.

This exhibition is organized by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss

Opening: June, 25, 2006

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
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