M i d - M a n h a t t
a n L i b r a r y
Presents
An
Artist Dialogue
Marietta
Hoferer
and
Bruno
LeMieux-Ruibal
Saturday August 8, 2009
6:30 p.m. on the 6th floor
Mid-Manhattan Library
The
New York
Public Library
40
th
Street
and
5
th
Avenue
New York
,
NY
10016
212-340-0871
Elevators access the
6th floor after 6p.m.
All events are
FREE
and subject to last minute change or
cancellation.
The Spanish American contemporary art critic and writer Bruno
LeMieux-Ruibal will converse with German American artist Marietta Hoferer. They
will talk about art and life, and discuss her
Art Wall on Third
installation
Malibu
on exhibit at the Art Collection at Mid-Manhattan Library.
Born in
Hausach
,
Germany
,
Marietta Hoferer moved to
New York
in 1993. She
studied sculpture at Hochschule der Kuenste
Berlin
,
Germany
and at
Hunter
College
in
New York
.
Her work has widely been exhibited in the
United States
and abroad. In 2008
she had her first
New York
solo show at
Galerie Mourlot, and her first museum solo show at the
Academy
Art Museum
in
Easton
,
Maryland
.
Her work was recently included in
Apparently
Invisible: Selections Spring 2009
at The Drawing Center in
New York
. She is the
recipient of many grants including a New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship and a Pollock-Krasner Grant. Hoferer's work is held in numerous public
collections including the
Academy
Art Museum
,
Easton
,
MD
,
Busch-Reisinger
Museum
at
Harvard
Art Museums
,
Cambridge
,
MA
and Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen
zu
Berlin
,
Germany
. Currently she is working
on a solo exhibition opening in October at KunstBuero in
Berlin
,
Germany
.
Bruno LeMieux-Ruibal
was born in
Northern Spain
, where he co-founded CETMo, a regional
ethnographic museum. There he co-organized exhibitions of
The
Photographs of Sebastiao
Salgado
and
The Arts of Ethiopia
,
as well as designing guides and tours for the education department. He received
a BA in Art History and an MA in Arts Management from the Complutense
University of Madrid. After moving to the
United States
,
he became the
New York
correspondent for Madrid-based
Lapiz
International Art Magazine
-the preeminent contemporary-art publication in
Spanish language-, for which he covers the American art scene at large. His
writings and essays have also appeared in
Flash
Art Magazine
and in exhibition catalogues in
Spain
. He lives in Hell's Kitchen.
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