Exhibit: Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978
Exhibition runs February 8 – May 5, 2013
www.latinamericanartathunter.org
Eco’s concept of the Open Work—an artwork that could not
be completed without the viewer’s participation—was highly
useful for Latin American conceptualists from the late 1960s
through the late 1970s because it named the collaborative and
performative emphasis of their artworks. Open Work in Latin
America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered,
1967–1978 displays the capacious nature of conceptualism
by exhibiting 91 books, video, sound, prints, drawings,
installations and photography by 36 artists working in Buenos
Aires, Rio de Janeiro, New York, London, Los Angeles,
Montevideo and Caracas. Although not a historical survey,
the show presents a collective desire to use the body to
destabilize systems of representation shared by artists from
Latin America working in conceptual modes from 1967 to
1978.
Open Work in Latin America, New York and Beyond includes
some ninety works that have been generously lent to Hunter
College from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, The
Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Henrique Faria Fine Art, Document Art Gallery, and Alexander
Gray Associates.
Hunter College is deeply grateful to the following donors,
whose generous support has made this exhibition possible,
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and The Bershad
Exhibition Fund.
For more information about related events, including lectures
by Dan Quiles, Gabriela Rangel, and performances and
screenings organized by students at Hunter College, and for
information about Hunter College’s Department of Art and Art
History and its initiatives supported by the Colección Patricia
Phelps de Cisneros, go to: www.latinamericanartathunter.org
Date:
February 8, 2013 - May 5, 2013
Time:
College:
Hunter College
Address:
THE BERTHA AND KARL LEUBSDORF ART GALLERY at Hunter College
68th St. and Lexington Ave.
Building:
West
Room:
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Phone:
212-772-4991
Website:
Admission:
Free