The American debut performance of the critically acclaimed Montreal-based Ensemble Transmission, will feature works by Xenakis, Vivier, Aperghis, Murail, Boulez. A lecture-presentation on "Xenakis in Canada" by James Harley, author of Xenakis: His Life in Music will precede the concert. This evening is co-sponsored by the Xenakis Project of the Americas and CALQ (Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec). Tickets can be reserved by calling 212-817-8593. Suggested contributions: $25 Friends; $10 Students and Seniors; FREE with CUNY Graduate Center ID.
7pm: Opening remarks by Co-curator Carey Lovelace before a screening of Something Rich and Strange (1970, London (BBC), Mark Kidel), a documentary about the life of Iannis Xenakis, followed by Orient-Occident: Images d'une Exposition (1960, Greece, Enrico Fulchignoni), a film commissioned by UNESCO that uses the sounds of bowed boxes, bells and metal rods, sounds from the ionosphere, and a speed-altered excerpt from Xenakis's orchestral work Pithoprakta.
9pm: Charisma X – Iannis Xenakis (2009, Greece, Efi Xirou), a documentary featuring interviews, musical compositions, architectural creations, and archive material, followed by La Légende d'Eer (1977-78, France, Gerard Pape), a powerful 7-channel electro-acoustic composition by Xenakis accompanied by a slideshow rendering of Xenakis’s Diatope, an autonomous architectural structure created for the opening of the Pompidou Center in Paris.
Artist Serkan Ozkaya will give a two-fold presentation titled Today Could Be a Day of Historical Importance: I am retiring from everything but drawing!. Ozkaya will begin with a slide-show presentation and description of his overall body of work, focusing on projects created from 1996 to the present. Works presented will range from a proposal to the Louvre to display Mona Lisa upside down to his mass-produced objects and hand-drawn newspaper reproductions. He will then discuss the relationship between tracing or copying and creating original drawings, explaining how he positions himself as an “art lover” rather than an artist.
Exhibition walk-through with Jon Bird, Professor of Art and Critical Theory at Middlesex University, London. A writer and curator of contempoorary art with a particular interest in post-War American Art, Bird has worked closely with Leon Golub and Nancy Spero over many years. He curated a retrospective of Leon Golub for the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, which travelled to the Albright Knox Museum and the Brooklyn Museum in 2000. The revised edition of his critical monograph Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real will be published later this year. In 2012, Bird will curate a Golub retrospective for the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid. Jon Bird is also a practicing artist and last year had a 2-person exhibition of paintings with New York-based artist, Samm Kunce, at Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg. He lives in London.
Curators Joanna Kleinberg and Rachel Liebowitz will lead a guided walk-through of the exhibition.
Panel discussion devoted to the life and work of Golub, including an esteemed group of artists, curators, art critics, and colleagues, who will share their personal experiences and recollections of the artist. Each panelist will be asked to discuss a specific drawing from the exhibition as it relates to his or her own relationship with Golub, and the lessons learned from his important legacy. Panelists will include Samm Kunce, Leon Golub’s studio assistant; Robert Storr, artist/critic, and Dean of the School of Art at Yale University; Susan Harris, independent curator and writer; and Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator of The Albright Knox Art Gallery. Moderated by Brett Littman, the exhibition’s curator and Executive Director at The Drawing Center.
Join us for an art-making workshop and discussion (ages 8 to 12 years).
In celebration of New York Gallery Weekend, Brett Littman, the exhibition’s curator and Executive Director of The Drawing Center will give a walk-through of the exhibition.
One of a series of four talks in which emerging artists discuss the influence and relevancy of drawing within their multifaceted practices. With diversity in both technique and approach, the artists in this series share an affinity for integrating drawing into a wide range of mediums - painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media - to critically investigate subjects of interest to them be it economics, politics, quantum physics, the human subconscious, or personal narrative. These artists’ unique forays into conceptual thinking and theoretical significance further broaden our conceptions of the field of drawing and highlight current trends and issues in contemporary art.
Sam Lewitt adopts a profoundly academic approach to his work, presenting extensively researched projects that act as fabricated artifacts to elaborate on the concepts set forth in his presentation of objects. Lewitt received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. He is co-founder and co-editor of Scorched Earth, a twelve-issue magazine in which the question of drawing’s place in theory and practice is addressed in dialogue with artists, critics and historians. He lives and works in New York.
One of a series of four talks in which emerging artists discuss the influence and relevancy of drawing within their multifaceted practices. With diversity in both technique and approach, the artists in this series share an affinity for integrating drawing into a wide range of mediums - painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media - to critically investigate subjects of interest to them be it economics, politics, quantum physics, the human subconscious, or personal narrative. These artists’ unique forays into conceptual thinking and theoretical significance further broaden our conceptions of the field of drawing and highlight current trends and issues in contemporary art.
Xylor Jane's intuitive systems of abstract patterns reveal the handmade imperfections of her drawn grids and suggest that the seemingly mechanical process is strongly indebted to autobiography and emotion. Jane received her BFA in 1993 from the San Francisco Art Institute and recently had a solo exhibition at CANADA, New York. She lives and works in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
One of a series of four talks in which emerging artists discuss the influence and relevancy of drawing within their multifaceted practices. With diversity in both technique and approach, the artists in this series share an affinity for integrating drawing into a wide range of mediums - painting, sculpture, installation, mixed media - to critically investigate subjects of interest to them be it economics, politics, quantum physics, the human subconscious, or personal narrative. These artists’ unique forays into conceptual thinking and theoretical significance further broaden our conceptions of the field of drawing and highlight current trends and issues in contemporary art.
Aaron Wexler looks to the traditions of early Modernist collage and formal aesthetics alongside new media to create complex matrixes of acrylic and paper on panel. Swirling, nebulous accumulations of geo-shapes and patterns drawn from nature synthesize abstraction and figuration, employing imagery that is vaguely familiar yet strangely enigmatic. Wexler was born in 1974 in Philadelphia, PA. He earned an M.F.A in 1999 from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, and a B.F.A. in 1996 from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, London, and Milan, and has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including The Saatchi Gallery in London, The National Academy Museum in New York, and Apexart, New York. He lives and works in New York City.