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EXIT HISTORY:
Ming Fay: Nature Reborn: From Archaeology to Science Fiction
2/2/1991 - 3/23/1991
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: Ming Fay's sculptures challenge our perceptions of
truth, scale and time. This installation consisted of over 100
of Ming Fay's mixed media sculptures whose imagery is derived from
vegetables, fruits, plant, animal skeletons, and other organic
structures all reproduced on a huge scale, some larger than human
size. The works, from 1979 to 1990, some representational and others
more ambiguous, brought renewed attention to the spirituality and
transience of nature, with a sense of humor and mortality. The
work is startling both for its humor and the decay that hovers
over these near perfect forms.
Archie Rand: The Letter Paintings, 1968-1971
4/6/1991 - 5/18/1991
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: This group of paintings was created as a tribute to
icons of popular R&B, early rock'n'roll, and blues musicians.
The works were a response to the minimalist Color Field paintings
that dominated the dialogue of the New York art community of the
time. Rand paintings are covered with names of music groups and
individual musicians, for the most part totally forgotten outside
of music circles. The paintings' elaborate surfaces and hot colors
utilized the newest developments in acrylics and other synthetic
painting materials that were not yet available to the public at
that time. Rand's use of language, the works' references beyond
the paintings themselves, and their remarkable crafted surfaces
relate them to other Conceptual and language-based art as well
as to the later work of Pattern and Decoration and New Image painters
of the '70s.
Jaime Davidovich: Forces/Farces
5/29/1991 - 7/13/1991
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: Forces/Farces was a new multi-media installation that
combined the artist's work in video and painting. This work addressed
the changing global dynamics through seven tableaux installations.
Using the metaphor of the theater, the installation examined the
global society and our attitudes towards it. A visual play with
different chapters, the work was divided into seven separate acts
or tableaux dealing with the issues of ecology, consumerism, media
blackout, globalism, multi-national economics and overpopulation.
The show featured new video work by Davidovich shot in Hong Kong,
Japan, Argentina, and Germany. Each tableaux was a freestanding
structure with its own visuals, video, and sound. Viewers walked
from tableau to tableau. Upon leaving the gallery space, the public
was able to respond to the installation through videotaped interviews
at the gallery, answering a series of questions that Davidovich
developed with a cultural anthropologist. The videos of collected
viewer responses became part of the exhibition with screenings
daily in which the public could view other responses to the exhibition.
Nancy Grossman
9/7/1991 - 10/12/1991
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Exhibition: A comprehensive mid-career exhibition of a multi-disciplinary
artist. Best known for only one aspect of her work, leather covered
sculptures of abstract heads, this exhibition for the first time
revealed the depth of a career that spanned twenty-five years,
from 1965 to 1990, and placed that work within a context of contemporary
art history. As a woman artist in the early 1960s, Grossman was
one of the pioneers to use industrial materials to create collaged
3-dimensional mixed media sculptures. The formal diversity of Grossman's
art is integrated in how they address fundamental concerns about
the human condition threatened by the alienation of the machine.
Grossman's art combines human forms in symbolic reference to the
technology that enslaves us. Juxtaposing the environment of the
20th century, what she calls "materials of civilization" with
primitive, instinctual, or animalistic human nature is a theme
that pervades her work and is at the root of its dialectical nature.
Parallel History: The Hybrid State
11/2/1991 - 1/25/1992
Curator(s): Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Artists: Ida Applebroog, Luis Camnitzer, Juan Downey, Jimmie Durham,
Ming Fay, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Nancy Grossman, David
Hammons, Jerry Kearns, Juan Sánchez, Anton van Dalen, Cecilia
Vicuña, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Martin
Wong.
Exhibition: The Hybrid State was an exhibition in which the artists'
conceptions were revealed through the curator's installation of
each work, providing a commentary on the different margins of culture.
The installation of each artist's work was a portrait homage to
that artist and a dynamic curatorial archive of each artist's ideas.
The Hybrid State exhibition introduced the conceptual basis of
the Parallel History program.
Publication: A documentary catalog
for The Hybrid State exhibition contains statements by the artists
and texts by Luis Camnitzer, Papo Colo, Joshua Dector, Jimmie Durham,
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Celeste Olaquiaga, Cecilia
Vicuña, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Warren Niesluchowski.
The Hybrid State Films
11/6/1991 - 11/17/1991
Curator(s): Coco Fusco
Film Program: The
Hybrid State Films was a two-week festival that showcased recently
produced independent films and videos about
the hybrid cultures of migrants, exiles, and the burgeoning postcolonial
communities in the United States, Canada, Africa, and Europe. These
features and shorts from around the world offered a range of interpretations
of life in places where "first," "second" and "third" world
intersect, and where cultures meet, synthesize and are continuously
transformed. The project was conceived by Papo Colo and presented
at the Anthology Film Archives, surveying the work of over twenty-five artists. The Hybrid State
Films examined how independent film and video makers in many parts
of the world were coming to terms with the significant demographic
and social phenomena of the post-WWII period: the cultural hybridization
that results from the shifts in population, the restructuring of
national boundaries brought about by the Cold War, the decline
of colonialism, and the massive move of peoples between the north
and the south.
Publication: An extensive catalog for the presentation contains
essays by Cameron Bailey, Daryl Chin, Miriam Rosen, Coco Fusco,
and Papo Colo and program notes.
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