Dear ARLIS/NY Members:
You are invited to attend a Special Summer Program hosted by the
Guggenheim Museum SoHo. The afternoon will begin with a reception
followed by exhibition tours and a visit to the Museum Library.
Current exhibitions:
HUGO BOSS PRIZE 1998: a juried exhibition, featuring works by the
awarded finalists: Douglas Gordon, Huang Yong Ping, William Kentridge,
Lee Bul, Pipolotti Rist, and Lorna Simpson. (The winner of this year’s
prize will be announced on July 29th.) The exhibition is part of the
long-term collaboration between the Guggenheim Museum and Hugo Boss AG.
HUGO BOSS PRIZE 1998 is organized by Nancy Spector, Curator of
Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and designed by Michael
Gabellini of Gabellini Associates. The Hugo Boss Prize is intended to
honor an international artist whose work in any medium has come to
exemplify a significant new development in contemporary art, one that is
generating cultural reverberations and informing younger generations of
artists and viewers.
BRANDON: launches the Guggenheim museum’s first artist’s project
commissioned for the World Wide Web. Conceived by filmmaker and media
artist Shu Lea Cheang, this project is a
multi-artist/multi-author/multi-institutional collaboration, which
explores issues of gender fusion and techno-body in both public space
and cyberspace. The project will unfold over the course of the coming
year, with distinguished members of the academic, medical, and legal
communities participating in scholarly forums and panels organized
around and within the project. Visitors to the site, located at
http://brandon.guggenheim.org , will be encouraged to interact with the
piece and contribute to its overall shape and transformation. BRANDON
is curated by Matthew Drutt, Associate Curator for Research, Guggenheim
Museum, and produced in association with the Society for Old and New
Media, Amsterdam (Caroline Nevejan and Suzanne Oxenaar, curators),
Institute on The Arts and Civic Dialogue, Harvard University (Anna
Deavere Smith, artistic director; Andrea Taylor, deputy director), and
Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta (Sara Diamond, director of media
arts). BRANDON is part of a broader program in the media arts being led
by John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts.
FABRIZIO PLESSI: an exhibition which inaugurates a new series, “European
Perspectives on the Media Arts.” The goal of this series is to focus
attention on key artists, themes, and projects in the history of
media-art practices in Europe. Fabrizio Plessi, one of Europe’s foremost
media artists, integrates traditional materials such as glass, marble,
and iron with video images, often representing such elemental forces as
fire and water. This exhibition features four of Plessi’s major works.
FABRIZIO PLESSI is organized by Heinrich Klotz, Director of the Museum
for Contemporary Art at ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and John
G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts at the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum.
WHEN: Tuesday, August 11th from 4:00pm-6:00pm
WHERE: Guggenheim Museum SoHo
575 Broadway (@ the corner of Prince Street)
New York, NY 10012
Enter through the museum’s gift shop, and meet for refreshments in the
main lobby in front of the video wall.
Please RSVP by August 7, 1998 to Ilene Magaras, Associate Librarian,
Guggenheim Museum SoHo, 212-423-3830, or [log in to unmask]
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