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
2:30 p.m. on the 6th
floor
Mid-Manhattan Library
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, NY
10016
212-340-0871
Elevators access the
6th floor after 2p.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
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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