Cirrus Timeline from Cirrus Gallery on Vimeo.
I visited Jean Milant today at Cirrus Gallery to see Once Emerging Now Emerging (OENE), a forty year retrospective that becomes much more than a mere retrospective with the invention of a four part cycle of exhibitions and a forthcoming interactive web(show)site that promises to live beyond OENE by evolving new programming into the future. Jean collaborated with young artist Aaron Wrinkle and the product of their labor is an interpolation of the historical legacy of Cirrus exhibitions and an infusion of emerging artists. Here's a slice of Aaron's curatorial statement:As a rotating, four-part exhibition aligned to the entire span of PST, the exhibition will operate "excavation-ally" to Cirrus' archive and how it pertains to the current artistic climate of Los Angeles. By focusing on moments of particular artists' early involvements with the gallery, such as Guy de Cointet, Barbara T. Smith and works by international and local emerging artists of today, the exhibition presents a liberal marriage of the past and present. Progressively, Cirrus invites artists today from Los Angeles and beyond to react to the archival information through a specially created website which will funnel into the exhibition; integrating the once emerging with the now emerging.
The exhibition schedule:
Now & Then: Sept.24 - Nov. 5, 2011
Livin' LA: Nov. 12 - Jan. 7, 2012
The Visitation: Jan 14 - March 5, 2012
Open Network: March 10 - May 5, 2012
Jean is on the verge of unveiling a prototype for web based curation. Stay tuned to this page, which is a place-holder at this moment for an interactive web/show site that should be up and open to the public before the end of the month. I've seen a preview of it (the Vimeo timeline video above is a component), I promise that it will be very interesting and worth your time. Among other things, it will offer a selection of catalogs of artists who have shown at Cirrus over the years (here's an example) and it will also feature a window for requests for submissions of proposals for possible exhibitions into the future.
Also, mark this date on your calendar:
Saturday, October 29th at Cirrus Gallery:A Conversation Regarding Michael Asher and the Legacy of Post-Studio Critique
10am-1pm: Michael Asher and Post-Studio Technique
2pm- 5pm: Michael Asher and Post-Studio Practice
Organized by Michael Ned Holte and Aaron Wrinkle
It should be fascinating....
Posted by Dennis at October 11, 2011 11:57 PM
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