“0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art” Exhibition

Pratt Manhattan Gallery

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Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, a multi-medium exhibition that explores time in its many iterations—real time, virtual time, historical time, recorded time, manipulated time, and more.

Named for the phenomenon in which the average museum visitor spends less than one minute looking at a work of art, the exhibition features artists who use nontraditional media (including robotics and computer software) to encourage viewers to think about time in new and varied ways. The artists hail from New York City (Alison Collins, Dan Estabrook, and Jeff Liao) and across the country.

0 to 60 includes well-known artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, the late Pratt alumnus whose interactive installation “Untitled” (Portrait of Dad) consists of 175 pounds of individually wrapped candies, and rising artists like David Chatt, whose Bedside Table is adorned with thousands of tiny seed beads. The exhibition also includes two installations uniquely tailored to Pratt Manhattan Gallery—Lisa Hoke’s expansive wall mosaic and Alison Collins’s Garden of Pleasure.

Also of note is Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Last Breath, which uses a respirator, a digital counter, and other items to capture and circulate a viewer’s breath, inflating and deflating a paper bag 10,000 times a day to mimic the respiratory cycle of a typical adult at rest.

“Modern society is obsessed with time, and we’ve noticed the concept bubbling up in contemporary art,” said Linda Dougherty, who co-curated the exhibition with Jean McLaughlin. “These works reference a longstanding tradition in art—whether it be through historical paintings that tell an unfolding story or through still lifes that capture one fleeting moment,” she added.

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Schedule

from November 22, 2013 to January 25, 2014

Opening Reception on 2013-11-21 from 18:00 to 20:00

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