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.