Exhibition and book launch
dal 16/2/2007 al 23/3/2007
Segnalato da
16/2/2007
Exhibition and book launch
Printed Matter Inc., New York
On show a selection of invitations, multiples, bookworks, coins and various editions produced by Micah Lexier since 1981. The opening reception will also serve as the launch for the artists'latest publication David Then & Now.
Micah Lexier / David Then & Now
Printed Matter is pleased to present an exhibition, an installation, a
book launch and a new site-specific window project by Micah Lexier.
Please join us on Saturday, February 17 from 5-7 PM to celebrate the
opening. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue at 22nd Street
in New York City.
The exhibition consists of a selection of invitations, multiples,
bookworks, coins and various editions produced by Micah Lexier since
1981 and is Micah Lexier's first New York retrospective. The artist is
well known for his conceptual invitation cards--which have taken the
form of prize ribbons, minted coins, and balloons, amongst others--and
the exhibition will feature a survey of these works. For this
exhibition, Lexier has designed a special invitation that takes the
form of a letterpress-printed envelope in an unnumbered edition of
2000. The exhibition also includes Lexier's minted coins, catalogues,
and boxed multiples, including a printed flag project, a puzzle and
numerous series of prints. On the occasion of this exhibition, Lexier
has produced a new edition in the form of a 10-volume set of printed
book jackets, which we will be presenting for the first time.
Two Equal Texts is a new, site-specific window project by the artist
for Printed Matter's storefront made in collaboration with the poet
Christian Bök. Two Equal Texts adds to and comments on the existing
layers of text that frame Printed Matter's storefront, which already
includes a translucent Printed Matter sign placed over the previous
tenant's signage, and a site-specific neon sign by Joseph Kosuth, which
in turn quotes a text by Michel Foucault. In placing his contribution
in this landscape, Lexier adds yet another pair of voices to this site
of dueling authors.
The opening reception will also serve as the launch for the artists'
latest publication David Then & Now. Published by Plug In Editions in
Winnipeg David Then & Now is 184 pages and contains 99 images (19
color) with essays by Stephen Matijcio and Alison Gillmor. This
publication relates to a project begun in 1993 entitled A Portrait of
David, in which the artist created lifesize photographic portraits of
75 boys and men named David aged 1 to 75. Lexier has since recruited
the original participants for another round of photographs. The result
is David Then & Now.
Micah Lexier, a Canadian artist now based in New York, has developed
his practice out of a reconsideration of the quasi-documentary
strategies of early conceptual art, retooled to accommodate his
concerns with time, identity and difference. His work has been
exhibited nationally and internationally at The New Museum in New York,
The Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the Contemporary Art
Museum in Cincinnati, The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, the
Barbican Art Gallery in London, The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto,
and the Museu da Gravura in Sao Paolo, among others.
Micah Lexier's David Then & Now is priced at $20 and will be available
along with the artists' other editions and publications at Printed
Matter's storefront and on online at www.printedmatter.org.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the
mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of
artists' books and other artists' publications.
Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part, through grants from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the
Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Altria Group
Inc, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Cowles Charitable
Trust, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Gladys Krieble Delmas
Foundation, The Gesso Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation,
the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation,
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and individuals
worldwide.
Reception: Saturday, February 17, 2007 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Printed Matter, Inc
535 West 22nd Street - New York
Free admission