Hans Haacke "Weather, or not "
548 W 22nd Street Building
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Weather, or not will combine large-scale kinetic installations, photographs, and text-based works in a dramatically experiential environment. The exhibition will include reinterpretations of some of Haacke's historical works along with new pieces specifically conceived for this show. Early works include, Thank you, Paine Webber, a reproduction of the text and cover from PaineWebber's annual report for 1977 with a photograph taken in Detroit during the Great Depression, and Ripple, an installation of electric fans that activate a wall of silk fabric, from 1967. Three new installation pieces from 2009, Untitled Projection, The Invisible Hand of the Market, and Bonus Storm, a text piece made of neon tubing, will be shown for the first time at X Initiative.
The show will address political issues of the present and natural processes that Haacke has been exploring for over 40 years. Haacke has taken a wide variety of approaches to core issues such as economics, politics, and ecology. His work combines fundamental critical positions with radical gestures, which make his practice even more relevant today. The work will be exhibited on the fourth floor of X Initiative, as part of the third and final phase of exhibitions and programming at X Initiative.
Hans Haacke was born in Cologne in 1936 and has lived in New York since the early 1960s. Among the institutions that have held one-person exhibitions of Haacke’s work are The Tate Gallery, London; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. His work was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and in four Documentas, most recently in 1997. Haacke shared a Golden Lion with Nam June Paik for the best pavilion of the 1993 Venice Biennial. In 2000, a permanent installation was inaugurated in the Reichstag in Berlin, and in 2006 a public commission commemorating Rosa Luxemburg was completed in a three-block area in the center of the city. For real, a two-venue exhibition and Haacke’s first retrospective in Germany, was recently presented at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg and the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (November 2006 – February 2007).
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Schedule
from November 21, 2009 to January 30, 2010
Opening Reception on 2009-11-21 from 18:00 to 21:00