Beginning with a Bang!
dal 27/9/2007 al 4/1/2008
Segnalato da
Alberto Greco
Roberto Jacoby
the mass media art group
Pablo Suarez
Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos
Victoria Noorthoorn
27/9/2007
Beginning with a Bang!
The Americas Society, New York
From Confrontation to Intimacy. The exhibition is divided into two distinct sections. The first, a selection of action-based projects by artists working in Buenos Aires; the second, a documentary section exploring the rich historical foundations that link these projects to the 1960s and 1970s. Curated by Victoria Noorthoorn.
From Confrontation to Intimacy
curated by Victoria Noorthoorn
Guest curated by Victoria Noorthoorn, the exhibition is divided into two distinct
sections.
The first, a selection of action-based projects by artists working in Buenos Aires;
the second, a documentary section exploring the rich historical foundations that
link these projects to the 1960s and 1970s.
Taken together, the projects included in the exhibition formulate politics of
intimacy. They attempt to offer a poetic vision of reality in which fiction, and in
some cases humor, are the catalysts for creating new situations or unforeseen
visions. The ideal of inserting a poetic gesture into a highly structured system
reveals resistance; it also signals the will to construct the own utopia and affirms
a local, community-oriented focus that operates by generating its own spaces of
legitimacy and effecting decisive transformations in our ways of seeing.
Along the way, the contemporary artist's gestures and actions explore the limit of
the author-subject, which is either split, merged with the object or subject
studied, or transformed into an other self; authorship is altered and dissolved in
the process of exploration. Like their precursors, they locate the artistic practice
in life.
The historical section is organized as a timeline from 1956 to 1976 that focuses on
immediate actions and performing gestures of destruction and dematerialization that
sought to confront and transform the art system during this time. In the timeline,
the viewers will be able to access information on specific gestures and projects by
Alberto Greco, Roberto Jacoby, the mass media art group
(Eduardo Costa and Roberto Jacoby, Raul Escari, and Juan Risuleo), Pablo
Suarez, and Federico Manuel Peralta Ramos among others.
The contemporary section presents installations, performance projects and films that
together propose a politics of intimacy by, for the most part,
mid-generation artists, with the exception of Navarro and Tartaglia (emerging) and
Jacoby (from a previous generation): Marina De Caro; Ana Gallardo; Graciela Hasper;
Roberto Jacoby, in collaboration with Syd Krochmalny; Fabio Kacero; Fernanda Laguna;
Patricio Larrambebere; Eduardo Navarro; Leandro Tartaglia; and Judi Werthein.
Opening reception: 7:30-9:00 PM
The Americas Society
680 Park Avenue - New York
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12-6 PM
Free Admission