“A Conversation with Yang Jiechang” is available in Chinese and English. Yang talks about his “art education” during the Cultural Revolution, when he served as a Red Guard in a small village, and describes how the study of calligraphy extinguished his enthusiasm for revolution and political propaganda. Read the English translation here. 巴黎楊詰蒼工作室 24 June 2014…
Luis Pérez-Oramas, MoMA curator and leader of the C-MAP Latin America group, discusses the challenges of collecting art from a region that complicates the art historical narratives by presenting a dynamic archipelago of modernities. I would like to start this essay with a picture of the current Painting and Sculpture Galleries on the fourth floor…
Luis Pérez-Oramas, the Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art at MoMA, talks with artist Natalia Babarovic about the meaning of painting and its ominous and constant ‘returning.’ Barbarovic also commented on the peculiarities of being a painter in Chile, both in contemporary times and during the years of the dictatorship, and spoke about what…
Once in the XX Century, an eight-minute film by Deimantas Narkevičius shows a larger-than-life statue of Vladimir Lenin being erected in Vilnius’s main square to the cheers of a large crowd. MoMA acquired the film in 2011, and in 2013, it was included in the Museum’s Performing Histories (1), an exhibition of recent time-based art…
After presenting during a C-MAP Latin America session at MoMA, artist Catalina Parra joined independent critic and curator Julia Herzberg for a conversation about her work. Herzberg, long-time researcher of Parra’s production, conducted an interview that went from politics to education and from Chile to Germany, with occasional stops in New York and Buenos Aires.…
During the Central and Eastern Europe C-MAP group trip to Moscow in June 2015, the participants met with Ilya Budraitskis, who spoke to them about the crisis facing Russia today and its effects on art and culture. Budraitskis’ argument is presented here alongside drawings by Sveta Shuvaeva, an artist whom the C-MAP Group also met…
Since around 1977 when Gilbert and Lila Silverman began to develop their Fluxus Collection, Jon Hendricks has played a central role in fostering the formation of that renowned collection that bears their names.
Architect, astrophysicist, scholar, and Valparaiso-aficionado Ann Pendleton-Jullian talks about Chile, Chilean architecture and landscape, and the “ad hoc, ongoing work of art” that is Ciudad Abierta. Pendletton-Jullian, author of Road that Is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile, visited MoMA to talk to the C-MAP Latin America group about her 28+ year…
We live in a world filled with images that are captured, edited, and published at hyper speeds, images referring to images. Our political, ethical, and intimate lives are constructed around images, through images, and in images. In situations of war and mass violations of human rights, it is our hyper-mediatized world that creates the typical…
Since the 1950s, there has been an active production of experimental film, animation, and video art in Asia. Yet, much of this work has not been consistently conserved or shared with the public due to the lack of accessible archives or organized collections dedicated to its preservation and dissemination. The conference “The Archival Impulse: Collecting…
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The name Ding Yi is associated with the cross, a symbol the artist, designer, and educator has used since the late 1980s in his investigation of abstraction. Ding’s allover painting fields are built from the manual, systematic repetition of horizontal and vertical strokes across a flat, canvas surface. Ding grew up during the Cultural Revolution,…
