“Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art” at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver


Erica Baum. Examined, 2009. Archival pigment print from the Dog Ear series, 9 x 9 inches. Courtesy the artist and Bureau, New York.

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art
12 October 2012 – 3 February 2013
at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Artists: Mark Amerika & Chad Mossholder, Carl Andre, Fiona Banner, Erica Baum, Derek Beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Jen Bervin, Jimbo Blachly & Lytle Shaw, Christian Bök, Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Büchler, Luis Camnitzer, Ricardo Cuevas, Tim Davis & Robert Fitterman, Monica de la Torre, Craig Dworkin, Tim Etchells, Ryan Gander, Michelle Gay, Kenneth Goldsmith, Dan Graham, Alexandra Grant, James Hoff, Seth Kim-Cohen, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Tan Lin, Gareth Long, Michael Maranda, Helen Mirra, Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, João Onofre, Michalis Pichler, Paolo Piscitelli, Vanessa Place, Kristina Lee Podesva, Seth Price, Kay Rosen, Joe Scanlan, Dexter Sinister, Frances Stark, Joel Swanson, Nick Thurston, Triple Canopy, Andy Warhol, Darren Wershler, Eric Zboya.
Curated by Nora Burnett Abrams, Andrea Andersson

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art features the work of over fifty artists and writers exploring the artistic possibilities of language. Presenting works from the 1960s to the present, the exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, installation, video and works on paper that raise questions about how we read, look at, hear, and process language today. A major current underlying the exhibition argues that the field of literature known as “conceptual writing” can be seen as engaging in a provocative dialogue with the field of contemporary art, producing new insights into the meaning of both literature and art. [read the full text here]
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Bas Jan Ader “The World Was Young When Gravity Fell” at Å kuc Gallery, Ljubljana


Bas Jan Ader, Fall 2, Amsterdam, 1970, Film: 16mm, black-and-white, silent, 19 seconds, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Courtesy of the Bas Jan Ader Estate and Patrick Painter Editions.

Bas Jan Ader
The World Was Young When Gravity Fell

7 November – 7 December 2012
at Å kuc Gallery, Ljubljana

The exhibit The World Was Young When Gravity Fell features work by Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared at sea while attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the smallest sailboat as part of the piece In Search of the Miraculous in 1975. Throughout Bas Jan Ader’s oeuvre, there is a constant tension between two opposite elements (heroic-failure, rational-emotional, analytical-poetical etc); and somehow, an endless rejection of the axioms of artistic approaches, and merely in this way, not taking any side, and by creating a constant ‘tension’ as his artistic approach, makes Ader’s conceptual gesture unique. The exhibition in Škuc Gallery examines Ader’s works, thoughts and ideas, and shows the importance and influence of his art in today’s art world. [read the full text here]
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