Contemporary Art Museum
St. Louis
3750 Washington Blvd.
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Three exhibitions
dal 26/1/2012 al 21/4/2012
tue-sat 10am-5pm, sun 11am-4pm, thurs until 8pm, closed mondays

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Allyson Pittman



 
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26/1/2012

Three exhibitions

Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis

Christodoulos Panayiotou's multidimensional work addresses issues and concerns ranging from the complex contemporary understanding of what constitutes 'the public' to the construction of national identity and history. 'Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper' brings together drawings and etchings by six artists that demonstrate a broad range of techniques, narratives, and conceptual approaches. 'Robert Breer: 1957' focuses on two of the artist's earliest significant films, which he created in a single year: the clamorous stop-motion collage, Jamestown Baloos, and the elegantly restrained hand-drawn animation, A Man and His Dog Out for Air.


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Christodoulos Panayiotou
One Thousand and One Days
Jan 27, 2012 - Apr 22, 2012

Christodoulos Panayiotou’s multidimensional work addresses issues and concerns ranging from the complex contemporary understanding of what constitutes “the public” to the construction of national identity and history. He frequently takes ceremonies, festivals, and theatrical spectacles as points of departure from which to explore the structures and customs that inform social experience. His process also engages the archives of the press and regional and state agencies of his country, Cyprus, to reflect on how interpretations of a collective sense of identity are dependent on the manner in which images and information are arranged and presented. For his presentation at CAM — the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States — Panayiotou will present new and preexisting works that demonstrate both the range of techniques and the socio-political concerns that define his practice. New works being created for the exhibition include a multi-part series of appropriated photographs from official Cyprus archives and a site-specific mural based on a particular historical set design that develop interrelated themes of celebration, festival, display, hegemony, and symbolic domination. The title of the exhibition combines allusions to A Thousand Days, a 1965 book by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. about the Kennedy Administration (seen in one of the images sourced at the Press and Information Office Archives), and the collection of traditional Middle Eastern folk stories, 1001 Nights, to underscore Panayiotou’s emphasis on building narratives about power and presentation both within and between his works.

Christodoulos Panayiotou (b. 1978, Limmasol, Cyprus) lives and works in Berlin. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, and the Norrlands Operan - Vita Kuben, Umeå, Sweden (both 2011); the Kunsthalle Zürich, and Cubitt, London (both 2010); and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2009), among others. Recent group exhibitions include: Incongru. Quand l’Art Fait Rire, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Art, Lausanne, Switzerland; The End of Money at the Witte de With, Rotterdam; and You are not alone, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona (all 2011); Live Cinema / In the round, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Living Currency, 6th Berlin Biennale - Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1), Berlin; and Catastrophe, The Quebec City Biennial, Quebec City (all 2010); Insiders, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Lyst, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; The Columns Held Us Up, Artist Space, New York; and Convention, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (all 2009). In 2011, he received the “Future of Europe Prize” from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, and in 2005, he won the 4th DESTE Prize from the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Athens. Panayiotou has been an artist-in-residence at CAPACETE, Rio de Janeiro (2011); IASPIS, Stockholm (2009); and at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2008).

Christodoulos Panayiotou: One Thousand and One Days is organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and curated by Chief Curator Dominic Molon.

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Figure Studies
Recent Representational Works on Paper
Jan 27, 2012 - Apr 22, 2012

Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper brings together drawings and etchings by six artists — Ida Applebroog, John Bankston, Jennifer Bornstein, Alejandro Cardenas, Djordje Ozbolt, and Tom Reed — that demonstrate a broad range of techniques, narratives, and conceptual approaches. The exhibition suggests how works on paper have become a more central and celebrated presence in contemporary art, despite having once been considered to be secondary to the more privileged artistic formats of painting and sculpture. It also reveals how artists working in the more traditional manner of depicting things in this world, or the world of imagination, are imbuing the content of their work with distinctly contemporary concerns and sensibilities.

For example, Ida Applebroog’s (American, b. 1929, lives and works in New York) works provocatively explore how gender is represented and embodied in society and culture through rigorous experimentation with the processes and materials. John Bankston (American, b. 1963, lives and works in San Francisco) creates vibrant drawings in a style reminiscent of children’s coloring books to address issues of racial and queer identity, while Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer Bornstein’s (American, b. 1970, lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin) small, meticulous, and slightly crude etched portraits of subjects ranging from her teenage roommate to anthropologist Margaret Mead in Samoan dress intertwine the personal, the historical, and the mundane. The elegantly spare work of Alejandro Cardenas (Chilean, b. 1978, lives and works in New York City) develops mysterious imaginary narratives through renderings of exquisite figures against stark black backgrounds. Djordje Ozbolt’s (Serbian, b. 1967, lives and works in London) drawings are created in parallel to the production of his paintings and are often used to illustrate the announcements for his exhibitions. His drawn works, like his paintings, incorporate incongruously contemporary or foreign elements into compositions mimicking art from the Renaissance through the mid-19th century as a form of political and social satire. St. Louis-based artist Tom Reed (American, b. 1968, lives and works in St. Louis) combines a formal approach informed by such visionary “outsider” artists as Joseph Yoakum and Henry Darger with knowing and intensely stylized depictions of natural phenomena and rustic settings and situations.

Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper is organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and curated by Chief Curator Dominic Molon.

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Robert Breer
1957
Jan 27, 2012 - Feb 19, 2012

In their spirited and fast-paced dance with color, geometric shapes, line drawing, and collage, American artist Robert Breer’s films, drawings, paintings, and sculptures remain as fresh and prescient as ever. Over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Breer found himself, both critically and personally, aligned with major figures of the twentieth-century avant-garde — across movements from Minimalism to Pop and Fluxus — but he always remained outside of any particular movement or ideology. Instead, he developed his own singular vision that sought to explore the possibilities of abstraction while at the same time infusing his imagery with a distinctly human warmth. Breer also taught film and animation courses at New York City’s Cooper Union from 1971-2001. His influence upon his students and, by extension, the landscape of contemporary filmmaking is evident in the proliferation of techniques that he pioneered and which we now see all the time: a combination of still photography and moving imagery, line drawing, fast-paced editing, and an emphasis on archetypal forms.

Robert Breer: 1957 focuses on two of the artist’s earliest significant films, which he created in a single year: the clamorous stop-motion collage, Jamestown Baloos, and the elegantly restrained hand-drawn animation, A Man and His Dog Out for Air. Whereas Jamestown Baloos relies on a maximalist aesthetic to convey a highly politicized point of view, A Man and His Dog Out for Air takes an introspective approach, concentrating on the practice of drawing itself. 

Robert Breer: 1957 is curated by CAM Assistant Curator Kelly Shindler.

Image: Christodoulos Panayiotou, Wonder Land, 2008. 80 color slide

Public Relations Manager Allyson Pittman at (314) 535-0770 x311 / apittman@camstl.org

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