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theanyspacewhatever
October 24, 2008–January 7, 2009
During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. Using the museum as a springboard for work that reaches beyond the visual arts, their work often commingles with other disciplines such as architecture, design, and theater, engaging directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life to offer subtle moments of transformation. This loose affiliation of artists, each of whom now boasts strong, independent careers, periodically and randomly joins forces to create a variety of projects. The Guggenheim Museum has extended an invitation to a core group of these artists—Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, and Rirkrit Tiravanija—to collectively formulate a scenario for an exhibition, one that will reflect and articulate the unique nature of their practices. Organized by the museum’s Chief Curator, Nancy Spector, in close collaboration with the artists, the exhibition will present a genealogy of their shared history through site-specific installations of new, often self-reflexive works created on the occasion of this project.
This exhibition is sponsored by Hugo Boss
Additional support is provided by the Waldorf=Astoria Collection; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Etant donnés: The French-American Fund
for Contemporary Art, a program of FACE; and The Grand Marnier Foundation.
The Guggenheim Museum gratefully acknowledges the Leadership Committee for theanyspacewhatever.
Liam Gillick,
theanyspacewhatever signage system (prototype), 2008.
Aluminum.
Installation view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2008.
© Liam Gillick
Courtesy Casey Kaplan, New York, and José Noé Suro, Guadalajara.
Photo: David Heald
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The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989
January 30–April 19, 2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989 illuminates the dynamic and profound impact of Asian art and philosophical concepts on American artistic practices of the late 19th century (1860–1900), early modern (ca. 1900–1945), and postwar avant-garde (1945–89) periods. To premiere at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in late January 2009 as part of the museum’s 50th-anniversary celebrations of the Frank Lloyd Wright landmark building, the exhibition will trace how the material culture, artistic legacies, and philosophical systems of Asia—collectively admired as “the East”—were known, reconstructed, and transformed by American art and cultural forces. The exhibition will feature approximately 260 works by 114 American and Asian-American artists, drawn from major public and private collections in the United States and Europe. The Third Mind will provide an unprecedented opportunity for audiences to experience how Eastern art forms and philosophies had a far more important and sustained influence on American modern and contemporary art than is generally recognized or understood. Organized by Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art.
Arthur Wesley Dow, August Moon, ca. 1905. Polychrome woodblock print; color on paper, 13.5 x 18.5 cm. Collection of Edgar O. Smith, New York
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