Walker Art Center Summer Exhibitions
 | | Absentee Landlord
Curated by John Waters
"Who should room together in the world of contemporary art? Can a Russ Meyer photograph go to sleep in the same gallery as an Yves Klein blue chip masterpiece?" Pop culture provocateur John Waters raises a host of questions in Absentee Landlord, his devious and sometimes irreverent curatorial intervention in the exhibition Event Horizon. Imagining the galleries as rental apartments, Waters sets up relationships among nearly 80 "roommate" artworks that may be friendly or belligerent, unruly or reserved, supportive or indifferent. In exploring the tensions and connections among disparate works in the Walker's wide-ranging collection, Waters imbues his new role as curator with his trademark blend of subversion and insight.
Art on Call: Free Audio Guide
A special edition of Art on Call features Waters' own inimitable take on works in Absentee Landlord and the contemporary art world. Call 612.374.8200 and enter the tour stop numbers, or point your mobile browser to walkerart.org. more >
In the Shop
The Walker's rendition of John Waters' signature "Troublemaker" is available, as well as several John Waters-approved gag gifts and his new book, Role Models.
Garden Café
Waters' work at the Walker includes several additional "interventions" outside the galleries. Don't forget about our "blue plate special," a limited-edition photograph of beautifully-plated but inedible food refuse--available for purchase in the Garden Café.
read more >>
|
 | | Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870
Through September 18
Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. Investigating the shifting boundaries between seeing and spying, the private act and the public image, the exhibition reveals the myriad ways photography has brought to light the forbidden and the taboo. Homing in on sex, celebrity, violence, and surveillance, it provokes an array of uneasy questions at the intersection of both power and pleasure.
With more than 200 photographs, installations, and video pieces, Exposed includes works by "unseen photographers" as well as images both celebrated and notorious. Alternately shocking, illuminating, disturbing, and witty, it provides both historical and timely perspective on the tensions between the camera, art, and society.
Artist Talk: Behind Closed Doors with Justin Newhall
Thursday, June 23
Minneapolis-based photographer Justin Newhall's new suite of images is based on an unexpected encounter in the northernmost reaches of Manitoba, Canada. The artist and assistant curator Bartholomew Ryan touch on themes addressed in the Exposed exhibition during a discussion of Newhall's works, which were recently acquired by the Walker. more >
Found, Exposed, & Engaged: A Photo Challenge with Davy Rothbart
Show us your stuff! We've teamed up with Davy Rothbart, creator of FOUND Magazine, for two photo challenges related to the Exposed exhibition. There are two simultaneous challenges: Found Scavenger Hunt and Found Online. Feel free to enter both! more > read more >>
|
 | | Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Documenting the intimate lives of friends and lovers, as well as trusting acquaintances from bar scenes in New York and Boston, photographer Nan Goldin compiled hundreds of images made over two decades into The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Presented in its original, 35mm slide-show format, the images seem to invite us into a world that is universally human yet highly specific.
Part of Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 read more >>
|
 | | Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments
Through September 11
Acclaimed Dutch artist Mark Manders is known for his enigmatic and evocative sculptural objects and tableaux. This exhibition, the first North American tour of his work, showcases a new body of sculpture and furthers his monumental Self-Portrait as a Building, a constantly expanding project the artist initiated in 1986.
Manders translates his thoughts, memories, and dreams into material forms that incorporate household furniture and other everyday artifacts, taxidermied animals, architectural fragments, and fabricated pieces that resemble statuary or relics from some ahistorical culture. Part still life, part landscape, these installations bring together seemingly unrelated elements to construct a distinctive personal iconography--a self-portrait that eschews stories or feelings, yet has "its own will, its own life," as the artist notes. With each exhibition, Manders generates room upon room of his ever-evolving fictional edifice, creating a psychologically charged space through which we can collectively investigate our own relationship to the world of objects and language.
read more >>
|
 | | Goshka Macuga: It Broke from Within
Through August 14
In recent years, Goshka Macuga has become internationally known for using institutional histories as staging grounds for complex proposals. For her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the London-based Polish artist seizes upon the Walker's financial underpinnings in the lumber business of its founder, T. B. Walker, and considers the forest as a metaphor for American freedom.
Within an exhibition architecture of her design, Macuga sets elements from the Walker collections and archives--including works by Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, and Sherrie Levine--against a monumental new tapestry depicting a famous pine forest in northern Minnesota that accidentally survived the original logging of the state. read more >>
|
Upcoming Exhibitions
 | | Baby Marx
Opens August 11
The Walker presents the latest phase and first US exhibition of Baby Marx, an ongoing project by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes that looks at the potential for mass entertainment to operate as a radical educational tool. read more >>
|
Walker Art Center Premier Partners  |
No comments:
Post a Comment