Mike Montiero, I met several years ago here in Miami, but in San Francisco there is a Creative Mornings series where this video was made. We all need to learn about contracts.
Joseph Beuys: Make the Secrets Productive, New York
How is it that the name Joseph Beuys has come up so many times in the past month or so? A friend and I were talking about a project and doing further research on its development Beuys name came up. I hadn’t thought a great deal about him for a while as my personal explorations and experimentations lead me in a different, although similar, direction.
At the Saturday opening at Artlab33 | Art Space an artist or two were talking about Beuys that perked my ears. Beuys ideas seem to have some immediacy and currency.I think we saw a lot of that at the 2009 Art Basel Miami Beach activities in Wynwood with the district being covered in sanctioned graffiti, although that only partially touches upon what Beuys was about.
Joseph Beuys: Make the Secrets Productive / PaceWildenstein, New York:
“During his lifetime he was controversial, but now the German performance and installation artist, sculptor, graphic artist, art theorist, pedagogue of art and politician Joseph Beuys is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. His words ‘Every man is an artist’ are cited again and again, not only by art art lovers.
Currently, PaceWildenstein in New York presents ‘Joseph Beuys: Make the Secrets Productive’, an exhibition of twelve sculptures, dating from the 1950s through the end of his career. Over 90 black and white photographs taken by Ute Klophaus, documenting eleven of the artist’s ‘Aktion’ works, will be shown alongside four of these iconic happenings on film. The installation will also feature a separate screening room showcasing rare footage and interviews with Joseph Beuys.
In this video we have a look at this extraordinary exhibition and PaceWildenstein President Marc Glimcher and Director Birte Kleemann tell us how this show came about.
Among the works are Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler (Make the Secrets Productive), a 1977 text-based sculpture painted on wood paneling with Braunkreuz, an earthy-looking substance Beuys created by combining household paint and hare’s blood. This important work of art indoctrinates each visitor with the Beuysian ideology that ‘every man is an artist’ and its message is the anchor for the larger exhibition, which features a number of unique sculptures that have never before been presented in the United States. Among the sculptures are Feldbett (1982), OFEN (1983-85), Tisch mit Aggregat, Tisch 2 Pole, and Doppelaggregat. For more information visit PaceWildenstein’s website.
Joseph Beuys: Make the Secrets Productive at PaceWildenstein, 25th Street, New York, runs until April 10, 2010. A catalogue with essays by Heiner Bastian, Prof. Dr. Joachim Pissarro, Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries, and Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume, head of the Hamburg Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, will accompany the exhibition. Currently, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, has dedicated one of its fourth floor galleries to an ongoing exhibition dedicated to Joseph Beuys. The focus of this installation centers on the museum’s recent acquisition of five vitrines created by the artist, with works dating from 1942 and 1982.
Joseph Beuys: Make the Secrets Productive / PaceWildenstein, New York. Private View, March 4, 2010.
PS: See also VernissageTV’s coverage of the exhibition mentioned in this segment, Joseph Beuys. We are the Revolution / Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Other Beuys related videos.”
More info via VTV contemporary art search
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Related Articles:
- Joseph Beuys and His Students at Sak?p Sabanc? Museum Istanbul
- Beuys. We are the Revolution / Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
(Via VernissageTV art tv.)
Tremain Smith
Several years ago I curated an exhibition at Broward College’s gallery on the main campus. Edouard Duval-Carrié was one them, Onajide Shabaka (your author) was one, and Tremain Smith of Philadelphia was another. Ms. Smith creates abstract encaustic paintings. The video that follows is one that she send to me to share. Enjoy.
Miami Art Live! with Annie Wharton at FAU (part 3)
Annie Wharton was in town for a video screening at the Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach and, an exhibition of her paintings at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, (Wynwood Art Walk) Saturday, April 11 at 7:30pm. Ms. Wharton is involved with a lot of local projects during her stay here but, she did take time to come talk to FAU’s students and faculty.
Annie and I go back over 10 yrs. when she was a student in one of my drawing classes. She’s worked hard and made a successful career. Her art is fresh and vibrant, full of richness and, above all, contains nuggets of its author, a truly beautiful woman and friend.
Annie Wharton was in town for a video screening at the Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach and, an exhibition of her paintings at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, (Wynwood Art Walk) Saturday, April 11 at 7:30pm. Ms. Wharton is involved with a lot of local projects during her stay here but, she did take time to come talk to FAU’s students and faculty.
The Prisoner’s Dilemma at CIFO / Interview with curator Leanne Mella
The current exhibition at CIFO is titled: The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. The show is curated by Leanne Mella, a contemporary art curator, specializing in American artist’s work in film, video, performance, photography and new media. The works in this exhibition comment upon, confront and challenge strategies of totalizing power and social control. Among the works on display are Stan Douglas’ Mess Hall, Isla de Pinos (2005), Alexandre Arrechea’s El Espacio Alterado (2004), and Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (We are the Objects of Your Suave Entrapments), 1984.
Miami Art Exchange founder and editor Onajidé Shabaka spoke with Leanne Mella about the exhibition at the occasion of the Opening Brunch at CIFO, Miami / Florida, on December 5, 2008.
PS: Interview with CIFO chief curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill on VernissageTV.
Interview with Onajidé Shabaka, Miami Art Exchange / part 2/2
Onajidé Shabaka is the founder and editor of Miami Art Exchange. In this interview, he talks about the art scene in Miami and his projects. November 29, 2008. Part 2/2.
PS: Onajidé Shabaka in conversation with Leanne Mella, the curator of the current show at CIFO coming soon.