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Subject: Julie Saul Gallery & Mpls CA&D
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:01:45 -0500
From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>
Mapnerds in the New York metro area might get a kick out of this art
exhibit... see below
Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-278
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http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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(There are two e-annoucements. Please note to open the attachment you'll
need Photoshop.)
Uncharted Territory; Subjective Mapping by Artists & Cartographers
Doug Beube is exhibiting his collages and mixed-media sculpture at the
Julie Saul Gallery, in a group exhibition. Artists participating in the
exhibition are, Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Callan, Elaine Lustig Cohen,
Luigi Ghirri, Maira Kalman, Joyce Kozloff, Paulo Laster, Charles Luce,
Meredith MacNeil, Rick Meyerowitz, Abelardo Morell, Karin Apollonia
Muller, Vik Muniz, Kathy Prendergast, Gonzalo Puch, Lordy Rodriguez, and
Dan Zeller.
The exhibition dates are March 5- April 10, 2004 (Sorry, no reception)
Julie Saul Gallery is Located at 535 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011.
Phone is 212-627-2410 or www.saulgallery.com for information.
Uncharted Territory:Subjective Mapping byArtists and Cartographers
(press release follows)
The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition on the
theme of mapping. The show will include historical maps and works by a
wide range of contemporary artists working in a variety of mediums
including painting, collage, drawing, photography and printmaking.
Maps have been a compelling theme for contemporary artists throughout the
twentieth century. The ever evolving systems used to record distances and
terrain, the shifting of geopolitical borders, our increasing understanding
of space- both near and distant- have offered visual and conceptual
inspiration and springboards for provocative contemporary work. Artists
have looked backward and forward for their cartographic inspiration and
visual sources. For example Joyce Kozloff in her recent project Boys' Art
combines quotes of historical maps, with collage elements derived from her
sonıs childhood combat drawings and other narrative elements. Elaine
Lustig Cohen uses a map of Berlin and collage elements to create a
biographical portrait of the architect Mies van der Rohe. Gonzalo Puch, a
conceptual photographer from Seville creates a homage to Vermeer with a
burning telescope as if to literally ignite the excitement of scientific
exploration.
In order to establish a precedent for both the artifice and subjectivity of
the cartographic tradition, the exhibition will include three fascinating
examples of early maps: a world map from 1493- before word had gotten out
that the earth is round, a 16th century map of Europe depicted upside down,
and a 17th century map of the Northeast in which the Dutch publisher
pirated an earlier map and inserted his own changes- an early act of
appropriation.
The arbitrary yet fixed nature of measurements and scientific systems was a
rich source for Marcel Duchamp- and no one who encounters the standard
stoppages can help but apply the illogical elegance of that concept to any
system we encounter in daily lives. Two map works of Benin by Jennifer
Barlett from a new series about Africa point to the complicated
relationships between countries and form a commentary on the arbitrary
nature of the divisions we use.
The use of names or text according to alternative systems is another
mapping strategy as seen in the work of Kathy Prendergast, the Irish
artist. She is known for her exquisite drawings of international capitol
cities and has been working with mapping software since 1999. Her large
map of America is an accurate rendering of state borders, topography,
rivers and lakes, but the only places identified with a name are those that
include the word Lost - the title of the work. Another example of
linguistic shenanigans is Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitzıs NewYorkistan
map. The show will include an original study and final version of the well
known New Yorker cover. The humorous Balkanizing of New York neighborhoods
to names like The Moolahs for Wall Street and Gaymanistan for Chelsea,
helped mitigate our urban anxiety, and provided the first opportunity to
laugh after 9/11. Several examples from Italian conceptual photographer
Luigi Ghirri's Atlante (atlas) series from 1973 break up maps into tiny
details of text and graphics, which when enlarged become subtle and
beautiful abstractions.
Vik Muniz has created a topographical map of Antartica using sugar and
other granulated materials with his usual Duchampian playfulness- in a
color work from 1996. Abe Morell humorously evokes topography by his
crumpled map series in which he literally creates a "lake" by the addition
of water. Jonathan Callan and Doug Beube use books and maps to recreate
meaning by unlikely segues and juxtapositions, as does Charles Luce in his
proposal to combine the rivers of the world. The graphic techniques and
stylistic conventions of cartography are sometimes used by artists in
purely abstract ways as seen in the work of Dan Zeller and Lordy Rodriguez.
For further information or visuals, please contact Edna Cardinale at
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Sacred Texts: Contemporary Artists Contemplate our Faith in Words
Doug Beube is in a group exhibition at the Minneapolis College of Art and
Design Gallery, curated by Diane Mullin from Feb 28-March 28, 2004.
The power of text-both written and uttered - is explored by different
artists using a
range of media in a challenging and eye-opening exhibit beginning Feb. 28
running through March 28, 2004. An opening reception will be held Friday,
Feb 27 from 6-8pm in the gallery.
Diane Mullin writes about Doug Beube's collages: By altering world atlases
he questions the nature of our beliefs about the world in which we
live. The Erosions series were produced by sanding the pages of atlases so
that the familiar images are made a new as mountain ranges appear in the
middle of oceans forming new islands and rain forests appear like an oasis
in the middle of a desert.
The nine artist whose work is shown all wrestle with the emotional meaning
of words- the associations we have with them, the belief systems embedded
by them, and the way in which they guide our lives without our awareness of
their centrality. At the heart of the exhibit is the relationship between
the words and faith: Not just religious faith, but faith in technology,
faith in mass culture, even faith in democracy. The displayed work will
include works by; Vito Acconci, Ken Aptekar, Doug Beube, Nina
Katchaourian, Karen Armstrong, Linda Ekstrom, Barbara Nei, Jila Nikpay, and
Piotr Szyhalski.
For further information, directions and lectures on this exhibition please
contact,
Diane Mullin
MCAD
2501 Stevens Ave S
Mple, MN 55404
612-874-3667
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(See attached file: Erosion #5.jpg)
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