"The Crude and the Rare" Exhibition
Cooper Union (41 Cooper Square)
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"The Crude and the Rare," a provoking exhibition featuring a range of diverse works--some never viewed publicly until now, opens 10/19 at 41 Cooper Gallery, the Cooper Union's new academic building. The show investigates how matter has inspired creative processes and critique. From Marina Abramović to Alfredo Jaar and Mark Dion (see advisory below for details), works of photography, video, sculpture, drawing, and installation address the political economy of precious substances such as gold, diamonds, and oil and the tenuous effects of globalization.
The Crude and the Rare is a group exhibition that features an international roster of artists exploring the intersection of materiality, alchemy, and the politics of resource extraction in contemporary art. The exhibition includes a combination of works: ones newly commissioned for The Crude and the Rare, which will be viewed publicly for the first time at the show’s opening, and international projects from the past few decades never exhibited in NYC. The works in photography, video, sculpture, drawing, and installation address the political economy of precious substances such as gold, diamonds, and oil and the tenuous effects of globalization. By investigating how matter has inspired creative processes and critique, The Crude and the Rare delves into the poetry/poesis of making, considering how physicality and the transformation of matter layer our understanding of the material world.
[Image: Alfredo Jaar "still from Introduction to a Distant Land" (1985) Courtesy the artist]
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Schedule
from October 19, 2010 to November 20, 2010
Tuesday – Saturday 11 am to 6 pm
Opening Reception on 2010-10-19 from 18:00 to 21:00