"Knight's Move" Exhibition
SculptureCenter
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This spring SculptureCenter presents a group exhibition that brings together artists prominent to the dialog of New York's recent past as well as those at the very beginning of their careers. Curated by Fionn Meade, this survey of new sculpture in New York embodies an informed yet playful and questioning view of the contemporary. Has Modernism and its various aftermaths approached the status of an inventory to be studied, borrowed from, and traded upon in ways that move beyond the anxiety of influence and endgame maneuvers? How can strategies of estrangement, appropriation, and abstraction exist alongside direct engagements with materiality, figuration, and storytelling? Can the makeshift, readymade, and precarious exist in dialog with the meticulous, obsessive, and finely crafted? Does political agency require a process of collaborative rehearsal? And how has the art of production challenged the presumed roles of performer and observer, director and spectator?
The knight's move is a quixotic entry into uncertainty that demands ingenuity and a swift response. It can be both Buster Keaton dodging into an alleyway as the pursuit rushes by, and the capacity to think two or three moves ahead. In New York, a city constantly inventing its present, the knight's move evokes an embrace of the episodic and ever shifting, a willingness to articulate, envision, and stage what comes next.
Performance programs have been organized in collaboration with New York-based curator and writer Jay Sanders, expanding the exhibition's view into New York performance, literature, and music. Alternately taking the form of a literary salon, nightclub, and workshop, the exhibition hosts a series of sequenced events that redirect, overlap, and amplify the work on view.
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Schedule
from May 03, 2010 to July 26, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-05-02 from 17:00 to 19:00