Dia News

April 2012

 

 

April 2 - Tickets for Yvonne Rainer now available
April 7 - Ian Wilson Discussions
April 12 - Artists' Web Project Launch: Shannon Ebner
April 14 - Mike Kelley Video Tribute
April 26 - Readings in Contemporary Poetry: Alan Gilbert and Paul Chan
April 28 - Gallery Talk: Jane Panetta on Richard Serra
April 30 - Artists on Artists Lecture: Akram Zaatari on Jean-Luc Moulène
April and ongoing - Blinky Palermo gallery

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Yvonne Rainer Trio A
 
Yvonne Rainer
Last performances in retrospective series
Sunday, May 13, 1 pm and 3 pm

 
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon New York

 

$35 general; $24.50 Dia members; $28 students, seniors

Tickets include museum admission.

 

To purchase tickets, click here or call 845 440 0100 x45.

The last performances of Dia's retrospective series of renowned choreographer Yvonne Rainer will take place on Sunday, May 13. This final program will include three of her most iconic works: We Shall Run (1963), Trio A (1966), and Chair/Pillow (1969), along with her most recent piece: Assisted Living: Good Sports 2 (2011).

 

For more information on Yvonne Rainer, click here

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Ian Wilson, The Pure Awareness of the Absolute/Discussions
Saturday, April 7, 12 pm and 2 pm


Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon New York

 

By appointment.

Conceptual artist Ian Wilson hosts an ongoing series of his signature Discussions. Neither recorded nor transcribed, these events continue the artist's four-decade project of creating ephemeral, oral artworks that exist only with the duration of a conversation.

Ian Wilson was born in 1940 in Durban, South Africa, and moved to the United States in 1960. Discussions have been held at international venues, including Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (1969); Dwan Gallery, New York (1970); the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (1971); New York University (1971, 1977); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1970, 1975); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1976-83, 1985, 1986, 2005, 2009); Documenta VII, Kassel (1982); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1981, 2005); Mus�e d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1989); Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2006, 2007); Kunsthaus Graz (2006); Peter Blum Gallery, New York (2007); and Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels (2004, 2006, 2008, 2011). Wilson lives and works in New York.

 

For more information, click here.

 

 

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Shannon Ebner

Artists' Web Project Launch and Conversation
Shannon Ebner 
Thursday, April 12, 6:30 pm

Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street 5th Floor New York City

Free admission. No reservations required.

 

A conversation with curator Yasmil Raymond will begin at 7 pm.

 

For her first web-based artwork Language Is Wild, commissioned by Dia and made in collaboration with New York-based designers Kloepfer-Ramsey, Ebner has composed an animated video of still images in which to explore various combinations of language and images. Utilizing the cursor as a means to rest and unrest the images moving continually on the screen, Language Is Wild casts the binary of "YES" and "NO" in uncertain terms: YES CURSOR NO / FRAME COMMA FRAME / STOP NO STOP / STOP YES STOP / 1 STOP / PAUSE / 2 STOP / DELAY / NO STOP / FULL STOP / DANCE DANCE DANCE.

Shannon Ebner was born in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey, and received her BA from Bard College in 1993 and her Masters of Fine Arts in 2000 from Yale University School of Art. Most recently she has participated in the Whitney Biennial, New York (2008); the 6th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2010); and the Venice Biennale (2011). Solo projects include MoMA PS1, New York (2007), and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011). This spring Ebner's work will be shown at MoMA, New York, in the exhibition Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

 

For more information, click here.

 

 

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Mike Kelley 
Mike Kelley: Video Tribute
Organized by Dia Art Foundation and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
Saturday, April 14, 10 am-10 pm

541 West 22nd Street New York City

Free admission. No reservations required.

 

Dia and EAI will pay tribute to Mike Kelley with a daylong screening of his remarkable video works, many of which were created with collaborators such as Paul McCarthy and Michael Smith. This 12-hour program, presented in coordination with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, will include the screening of such seminal work as The Banana Man (1983); Heidi (1992), made in collaboration with Paul McCarthy; Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath (1999); Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 (Domestic Scene) (2000); Day Is Done, Part 1 (2005-6); as well as the recent work A Voyage of Growth and Discovery (2011), made in collaboration with Michael Smith.

Mike Kelley (1954-2012) was one of the most transgressive contemporary artists of the second half of the 20th century. His work sought to interrogate the American psyche by subverting depictions of social practices and rituals, including the role of religion, authority, nationalism, adolescence, sexual identity, and gender. Furthermore, Kelley was an inspired, eccentric thinker and writer who provided support and encouragement to the many artists he admired.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), founded in 1971, is a nonprofit resource that fosters the creation, exhibition, distribution, and preservation of media art. www.eai.org

 

For more information, click here.

 

 

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Gilbert Chan

Readings in Contemporary Poetry
Alan Gilbert and Paul Chan
Thursday, April 26, 6:30 pm

Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street 5th Floor New York City

$6 general; $3 Dia members, students, seniors
For reservations, click here.

 

Alan Gilbert is the author of the poetry book, Late in the Antenna Fields (Futurepoem, 2011), and a collection of essays and articles entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight (Wesleyan University Press, 2006). A second book of poems, The Treatment of Monuments, is forthcoming from Split Level Texts in the fall of 2012. His poems have appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, jubilat, and the Nation, among other places. His writings on poetry and art have appeared in a variety of publications, including Artforum, the Believer, Bookforum, Cabinet, Modern Painters, Parkett, and the Village Voice. He is the recipient of a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a 2006 Creative Capital Foundation Award for Innovative Literature. He lives in Brooklyn.

Paul Chan was born in 1973 in Hong Kong and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. His work has been exhibited in international shows, including Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, 2009; Medium Religion, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2008; Traces du sacr�, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2008; and the Whitney Biennial, New York, 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include Paul Chan: The 7 Lights, Serpentine Gallery, London, and New Museum, New York, 2007-8. In 2007, he collaborated with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and Creative Time to produce a site-specific outdoor presentation of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in New Orleans. Chan has allocated a central role to the figure of the Marquis de Sade in his recent works, including My laws are my whores (2008) and Sade for Sade's Sake (2009), the latter of which was included in the Venice Biennale that year. He is the author of the artist books The Essential and Incomplete Sade for Sade's Sake (2010) and Phaedrus Pron (2010), available at Badlands Unlimited. He lives in New York.

For more information about Readings in Contemporary Poetry, click here.

 

 

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Richard Serra

Gallery Talks
Jane Panetta on Richard Serra
Saturday, April 28, 2 pm

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon New York

Free with admission. Reservations recommended.
For reservations, click here.

 

Jane Panetta is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY, with a focus on modern and contemporary sculpture, and holds a curatorial position at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Prior to the Whitney, Panetta spent several years in the Painting and Sculpture Department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she was involved specifically with MoMA's 2007 Richard Serra retrospective and the 2009 retrospective on the Belgian artist James Ensor. Panetta was a contributor to the publication James Ensor (2009), and writes frequently for such publications as Art in America and Modern Painters. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design.

For more information about Gallery Talks, click here.

 

 

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Jean-Luc Moulene

Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Akram Zaatari on Jean-Luc Moul�ne
Monday, April 30, 6:30 pm

Dia:Chelsea
535 West 22nd Street 5th Floor New York City

$6 general; $3 Dia members, students, seniors
For reservations, click here.

 

Akram Zaatari was born in 1966 in Saida, Lebanon. With a practice rooted deeply in the research of Middle Eastern photographic practices, Zaatari is interested in looking at the present through past photographic records. His work reflects on the shifting nature of borders and the production and circulation of images within the context of the current political divisions in the Middle East. Zaatari has participated in the Biennales of Gwangju, Sydney, and S�o Paolo (2006); 52nd Venice Biennale (2007); Torino Triennale (2008); and Istanbul Biennale (2011); as well as been exhibited in such international venues as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Tate Modern, London; Munich Kunstverein; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and MUSAC, Leon. He is author of more than 40 videos, including All Is Well on the Border (1997), This Day (2003), In This House (2005), and Nature Morte (2008). Since 1999, Zaatari has been researching the photographic archive of Studio Shehrazade in Saida, Lebanon, studying, indexing, and presenting the work of the photographer Hashem el Madani (born in 1928) as a register of social relationships and of photographic practices. Zaatari is the co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation, and he lives and works in Beirut.

For more information about Artists on Artists Lecture Series, click here.

 

 

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Blinky Palermo

Blinky Palermo gallery

April 2012 and ongoing

Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street Beacon New York

This reinstallation of the Palermo galleries centers on Times of the Day I-IV (1974-76), a six-part series comprising 24 individual paintings, which the artist began two years after relocating to New York City and taking up painting on aluminum panels. The paintings were executed on square panels divided into three horizontal bands painted with vibrant and saturated colors. The chromatic juxtapositions, organized in a sequence ranging from bright to opaque hues, allude to the shift of light as the day progresses from sunrise to noon and from sunset to dusk. The fore gallery leading into Times of the Day I-VI features Untitled (Totem) (1964-67) and Winkel rot-Wei� (Angle Red-White) (1965), two works from Dia's collection on view for the first time at Dia:Beacon.  

 

 
Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977 awarded "Best Monographic Museum Show Nationally" of 2011 by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA)

On March 15, the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) announced that the Dia Art Foundation and CCS Bard co-organized exhibition, Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, curated by Lynne Cooke, is the recipient of the "Best Monographic Museum Show Nationally" of 2011. Awards will be presented at a ceremony at the Asia Society in New York on April 2. For more information on the AICA-USA awards, click here.

The Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977 companion publication is available at www.diabooks.org

 

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Images (in order of appearance): Yvonne Rainer, Trio A, 1966. Performed as part of "This is the story of a woman who...," Theater for the New City, New York, 1973. Photo: � Babette Mangolte (All Rights of Reproduction Reserved). Courtesy of Broadway 1602, New York. Mike Kelley. Still from The Banana Man, 1983. Alan Gilbert. Photo: Nina Subin. Paul Chan, The Essential and Incomplete Sade for Sade's Sake (2010). Richard Serra, Consequence, 2003. Installation view at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Collection of the artist. Photo: � Richard Barnes. Jean-Luc Moul�ne, installation view of "Opus + One," Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York. December 17, 2011-December 31, 2012. Courtesy the artist; Thomas Dane Gallery, London; Galerie Pietro Spart�, Chagny; and Tim Walsh and Mike Healy. Photo: Bill Jacobson. Blinky Palermo, installation at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York. Collection Dia Art Foundation; Private Collection. Photo: Bill Jacobson. Blinky Palermo, installation view of "Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977," Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson.  

 

 

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