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EXIT HISTORY:
Immigrants and Refugees/Heroes or Villains
1/17/1987 - 2/14/1987
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Tseng Kwong Chi, Anton van Dalen, Juan Downey, Shelagh
Keeley, Komar and Melamid, Medrie MacPhee, Joshua Newstein, Miralda,
Lucio Pozzi, Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Exhibition: An exhibition that examined the important political
and aesthetic contribution of immigrant artists to the history
of contemporary American art. Artists who had immigrated to the
United States were asked to make a new work that would relate to
their change in cultural context and how this influenced their
art.
Michael Chernishov: Aggressive Symbols 1961 – 1987
2/19/1987 - 3/21/1987
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: A comprehensive exhibition of work from 1961 to 1987
by this Soviet artist who had recently emigrated to the United
States and whose work is in the Constructivist tradition of the
teens and twenties. The exhibition consisted of a series of works
on paper, drawings, and cut outs that deal with military and geometric
iconography. This was the first one-person exhibition of Chernishov's
work in the United States.
Publication: Color catalog with essays by Timothy Cohrs.
Concrete Crisis: Urban images of the 80s
2/19/1987 - 3/21/1987
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: An exhibition organized by PADD (Political Art Documentation/Distribution)
who asked 94 artists to design a poster reflecting their vision
of urban issues of the '80s. Selected posters were also displayed
on the streets and printed in a limited edition portfolio.
Publication: Documentary catalog published by
PADD with an essay by Margia Kramer, B&W reproductions of
all the posters in the exhibition with statements by the artists.
Included
as a
supplement
to Upfront No. 12-13.
Arlan Huang: Paintings 1985-1987
3/28/1987 - 4/25/1987
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: A one-person exhibition of the abstract paintings
of this artist, who incorporates elements of traditional Chinese
landscape painting and calligraphy in his work.
Juan Sanchez, Guariquen: Images and Words Rican/Structured Print
Portfolio
3/28/1987 - 4/25/1987
Publication: A print portfolio published by Exit Art through an
artist-sponsored grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.
In conjunction with the printing of the portfolio, Exit Art presented
an exhibition of the five mixed media lithographic prints.
Films With A Purpose: A Puerto Rican Experiment in Social Films
4/23/1987 - 5/3/1987
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: A presentation of screenings, symposia, and lectures
concerned with this group of docu-drama films produced in Puerto
Rico from 1940 to 1960 as part of a government initiative for community
education and self-help programs. The program opened at The Museum
of Modern Art with other screenings held at The Collective for
Living Cinema, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York University,
and El Museo del Barrio to insure a broad public for the work.
Publication: Comprehensive catalog for the film program with an
introduction by Jay Leyda, special consultant to the project,
and essays by: Papo Colo, Antonio Lauria, Jack Delano, and project
researchers, Luis Rosario Albert and Ines Mongil Echandi. Catalog
includes B&W stills from the films and program notes for
the screenings.
Muntadas
5/1/1987 - 5/30/1987
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: One-person exhibition and installation of the formalist
work of this Spanish artist. His work is concerned with the framing,
presentation, and context of art and images in the media, and the
stereotypes that surround these ideas.
Publication: Catalog with essays by Mary Anne Staniszewski, Phillipe
Dubois, Catherine Kempeneers and Emmanuael Windels. Installation
photographs of the exhibitions, and discussion of his earlier installations
and video works.
Bang On A Can Festival
5/10/1987 - 5/10/1987
Music Program: A twelve-hour extravaganza of new experimental
music by both established and emerging composers from the United
States and abroad. It featured the world premieres of several pieces,
with many of the composers present to introduce and speak about
their work.
Mastfor II: Good Treatment for Horses
6/11/1987 - 6/28/1987
Performance: Recreation of Nikolai Foregger's celebrated Constructivist
cabaret/theater, Mastfor from 1920s Moscow. Presentation of Good
Treatment For Horses was the first full recreation and adaptation
of Vladimir Mass' 1922 play, originally dramatized by Foregger
with costumes designed by Sergei Eisenstein and sets designed by
Sergei Yutkevich. Twelve performances were given by Mastfor II,
a theater group that recreates avant-garde productions of the twenties,
directed by Mel Gordon.
Red Hammond
9/12/1987 - 10/17/1987
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: A survey of the recent abstract paintings from 1985
to 1987 of this artist, whose work combines surreal images and
shapes with recognizable objects often using the iconography of
music and musical instruments.
Joshua Neustein
10/24/1987 - 12/23/1987
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: A comprehensive exhibition of the work of this mid-career
artist, who uses maps as a basis to explore his ideas concerning
boundaries and territories, demarcation and displacement. The
show included paintings and installation works from the previous
two
years.
Publication: Comprehensive color catalog with introduction
by Jeanette Ingberman, and critical essays by Carlo McCormick,
Klaus Ottmann & Irit Rogoff.
Raul Ruiz: Works For & About French TV
11/11/1987 - 11/24/1987
Curator(s): Jordi Torrent
Video Program: The United States premiere of a two-week program
of screenings of work specifically created for television by this
Chilean filmmaker, who lives and works in France. These tapes were
produced in collaboration with INA, the experimental French TV
studio.
Publication: Catalog included extensive program notes for each
of the tapes, B&W stills from the tapes, introduction by
Jordi Torrent, project coordinator, and Jeanette Ingberman, poem
by Papo
Colo, and an essay by Richard Pena.
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