Curators' Notebook

Curator's Notebook is a ongoing collection of links, events, artists, and cultural refuse the SculptureCenter staff has recently found of interest.

Mar 4, 2010

Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek

Johannes VanDerBeek/b>, Documentation of Body/Building, 2007. Sanded magazine pages. Image via http://tang.skidmore.edu/

Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek June 6th 2009 - April 25th 2010
The Tang Museum at Skidmore College - Saratoga Springs, NY
 http://tang.skidmore.edu/index.php/calendars/view/220/

Amazement Park is a yearlong exhibition that combines work by the influential filmmaker and artist Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) with work by his daughter Sara VanDerBeek (b. 1976) and son Johannes VanDerBeek (b. 1982). This long overdue institutional exploration of Stan VanDerBeek's work builds upon and extends an impressive exhibition of Stan VanDerBeek's films, collages, and installation works, that was organized by Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek at Guild & Greyshkul just prior to the artist-run gallery closing its doors in December 2008. Organized by the Tang's Curator Ian Berry, the exhibition takes its inspiration from a recombinant exhibition space envisioned by Stan VanDerBeek wherein an exhibition might be collaboratively remade and revised. In this case, the exhibition has shifted every month to include selections from each artist's work, including newly commissioned works by both Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek, formidable artists in their own right. Innovative in spirit, the exhibition is a highly successful example in experimental exhibition making. Amazement Park is on view until the end of April, and well worth the scenic drive up I-87.
- FM

Feb 23, 2010

9 Screens at MoMA

Alejandro Cesarco, Turning Some Pages, 2010. Digital video (color, silent, 13 min.) Image via www.moma.org

http://moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1044

If you normally skip the lines at MoMA and head straight for the members' desk to pick up your admissions tickets, you run the risk of missing one of MoMA's most experimental exhibitions in recent memory. MoMA invited artist Nicolas Guagnini to critique the workings of MoMA from an artist's perspective. the result is a series of 5 videos shown on the screens behind the ticket counter in the lobby. The New York-based artists and collectives in the exhibition are Fia Backström, Alejandro Cesarco, Bernadette Corporation, John Pilson, and Union Gaucha Productions (which Guagnini cofounded). Each video is screened continuously for three weeks and because the work is in the lobby, you need not buy an entrance ticket to see them!
-MC