Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action Opens at Dia:Beacon
Opening October 2, 2010-February 13, 2012
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508845 440 0100 www.diaart.orgFree with museum admission.This presentation of works by Franz Erhard Walther will feature a selection of Handlungsstücke (Action Pieces) from the early 1960s when he first explored physical action as a sculptural principle. A focal point of the installation will be the complete presentation of one such piece, 1. Werksatz (First Work Set), 1963-69. Acquired by Dia in 1978, this work comprises fifty-eight fabric elements, or "instruments," that draw attention to the body as material form. This work, alongside early pieces, exemplifies the origins of Walther's five-decade-long investigation into the foundations of action, language, and space.
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Image: Franz Erhard Walther, Für Zwei (Nr. 31, 1.Werksatz) [For Two] 1967. Photo: Timm Rautert. Photo courtesy Franz Erhard Walther Foundation and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York.
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Franz Erhard Walther in Conversation with Curator Yasmil Raymond
Sunday, October 3, 2010, 2pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508845 440 0100 www.diaart.orgFree with museum admission. For reservations, click here. Franz Erhard Walther and Dia curator Yasmil Raymond discuss the artist's exhibition Work as Action, at Dia:Beacon.
Franz Erhard Walther was born in Fulda, Germany, in 1939. In 1957, Walther enrolled in the Offenbach School of Applied Art and subsequently studied at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie from 1962 to 1964. Walther remained in Düsseldorf until 1967 when he moved to New York where he lived and worked for six years. He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe including in Documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7 (1982), and 8 (1987); as well as Secession, Vienna (1989); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, (1993); and FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France (1999). Additionally, he has work on permanent view at Hamburger Kunsthalle; Kunstmuseum Bonn; and Mamco, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, where a major retrospective of his work was mounted in 2010. 1. Werksatz, the centerpiece of Dia's installation, was previously shown in exhibitions including "Spaces," at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1969-70) and "When Attitudes Become Form" at Kunsthalle Bern (1969). Walther has been a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg since 1971, where he has taught John Bock, Martin Kippenberger, and Jonathan Meese, among others.
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Image: Franz Erhard Walther, Armstück (Nr. 34, 1.Werksatz) [Arm Piece], 1967. Photo: Timm Rautert. Photo courtesy Franz Erhard Walther Foundation and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York.
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Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Taylor Mead and John Giorno
Thursday, October 14, 2010, 6:30pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011 212 989 5566 www.diaart.org $6 general, $3 Dia members, students, and seniors. For reservations, click here.Taylor Mead began writing and performing poetry in the early 1950s. He starred in numerous Andy Warhol films, including Taylor Mead's Ass (1964), and was the subject of William A. Kirkley's documentary Excavating Taylor Mead (2005). Mead performs weekly at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. John Giorno was the subject of Andy Warhol's first film, Sleep (1963), and is the author of several books including You Got to Burn to Shine (1993). He has produced various audio recordings for Giorno Poetry Systems, founded the AIDS Treatment Project, and is an important force in the development of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. For more information on upcoming Reading in Contemporary Poetry, click here.Image: (left) Taylor Mead, Photo: Gerard Malanga. (right) John Giorno, Photo: Pepe Arrebato. |
Artists on Artists Lecture: Peter Halley on Franz Erhard Walther
 
Monday, October 18, 2010, 6:30pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011 212 989 5566 www.diaart.org $6 general, $3 Dia members, students, and seniors. For reservations, click here.Born in 1953, Peter Halley lives and works in New York. His recent solo exhibitions include shows at Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2010); Baldwin Gallery, Aspen (2009); Waddington Galleries, London (2009); and Galeria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (2008). In 2001, he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association in the U.S. for his critical writing. For more information on upcoming Artists on Artists Lectures, click here.Image: (left) Peter Halley, Achromatic Concretion, 2010. Photo: Ron Amstutz. Courtesy the artist. (right) Franz Erhard Walther, Sockel, vier Bereiche (Nr. 49, 1.Werksatz) [Pedestal, Four Areas], 1969. Photo: Timm Rautert. Photo courtesy Franz Erhard Walther Foundation and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. |
Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Music Presents Nothing Sacred at Dia:Beacon
Sunday, October 24, 2010, 2pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508845 440 0100 www.diaart.orgFor information and tickets, call St. Luke's at 212 594 6100 or visit www.oslmusic.org.$35 general admission; $25 for Dia members; $10 students; free for children under 12. Three-concert series subscriptions $85 general or $70 for members.
Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Music at Dia:Beacon offers an unusually informal format encouraging interaction between composers, musicians, and audience. This program will consist of Beethoven's Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, a major chamber work; and a world premiere by William Bolcom, The Hawthorn Tree, written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle, who will join St. Luke's for the work.
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Image: St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble at Dia:Beacon.
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Lynne Cooke in Conversation at LACMA for Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977 Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 7:30pmLos Angeles County Museum of ArtBing Theater 5905 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles CA 90036 323 857 6000 publicinfo@lacma.org Free admission. Lynne Cooke, exhibition curator for Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, will be in conversation with artist Mathias Poledna and art historian Rhea Anastas. This exhibition is organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. For more information on Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977 at LACMA, click here. Image: Blinky Palermo, Coney Island II, 1975. Collection Ströher Darmstadt, Germany. Photo: Jens Ziehe, Berlin. |
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Gallery Talk: Claire Barliant on Franz Erhard Walther
Saturday, October 30, 2010, 2pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508845 440 0100 www.diaart.orgFree with museum admission. For reservations, click here. Claire Barliant is a Brooklyn-based freelance critic and writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications including Afterall, Art in America, Artforum, Bookforum, and Time Out New York, and in books on the artists Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle and Ann Lislegaard. She is formerly an associate editor of Artforum and an editor of Modern Painters, where she was executive editor from 2007 to 2009.
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Image: Franz Erhard Walther, Zeit Stelle Dauer Richtung Bezug (Nr. 58, 1.Werksatz) [Time Place Duration Direction Relation], 1969. Photo: Timm Rautert. Photo courtesy Franz Erhard Walther Foundation and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York.
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Performance and Screening of Works by Max Neuhaus
Sunday, October 31, 2010, 2pm
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY 12508845 440 0100 www.diaart.orgFree with museum admission. For reservations, click here. An event to celebrate the work of Max Neuhaus and Dia's recently published book Max Neuhaus: Times Square, Time Piece Beacon. Percussionist David Shively will perform a selection of Neuhaus's early concert realizations of works by New York School composers, followed by a special screening showing rarely seen films and videos of and by Neuhaus, including Phill Niblock's 1967 Max and a recently discovered video documenting Drive-in Music.
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Image: Max Neuhaus, drawing for Time Piece Beacon, 2005. © 2005 Max Neuhaus. Photo: Cathy Carver.
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Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977 Opens at LACMA Opening October 31, 2010-January 16, 2011Los Angeles County Museum of Art5905 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles CA 90036 323 857 6000 publicinfo@lacma.org Dia Art Foundation and CCS Bard will inaugurate the first North American retrospective of the work of Blinky Palermo (1943-1977). The retrospective is curated by Lynne Cooke and will travel to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (October 31, 2010-January 16, 2011); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (February 24-May 15, 2011); and Dia:Beacon and CCS Bard (June 25-October 31, 2011). For more information on Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, click here. Image: Blinky Palermo, To the People of New York City (Part XII), 1976. Collection Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson. |
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