“To The Friends Who Saved My Life” Exhibition

Callicoon Fine Art

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Callicoon Fine Arts presents To The Friends Who Saved My Life, a group exhibition organized by Jason Simon and Moyra Davey on the work of Hervé Guibert. Please join us for an opening reception on Sunday, May 19th from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition runs through June 21.

Hervé Guibert (1955-1991) was a French photographer and writer. A critic for Le Monde, he was the author of some thirty books. In 2011, Guibert’s photographs were the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. His posthumously published journals, The Mausoleum of Lovers, will receive their first English translation by Nightboat Books in 2014.

Moyra Davey (b. 1958 Ontario, Canada, lives in New York) has been the subject of two recent retrospectives: Long Life Cool White, at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University (2008), and Speaker Receiver, at the Kunsthalle Basel (2010). Her work was featured in the 2011 New Photography exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Biennial, 2012. A solo show, Hangmen Of England, opens at Tate Liverpool in June, 2013.

Heinz Peter Knes (b. 1969, Gemünden am Main, Germany) is a photographic artist who studied at Fachhochschule Dortmund. Recently published works include: Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, and IMU/UR2, on the collections of Martin Wong, both 2013. In 1998 he co-founded the photofanzine, Strahlung. 2012 exhibitions include a solo show at Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, and group exhibitions at Galerie Daniel Bucholz and the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in the exhibition Gewoon Anders/ Just Different. Knes has lived in Berlin since 2001.

Jason Simon (b. 1961, Boston) established the Art & Technology lab at the Wexner Center for the Arts and currently teaches at the College of Staten Island. He exhibited with the Pat Hearn Gallery from 1994-1999 and with American Fine Arts. He is a co-curator of Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, at the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, and Culturgest, Lisbon. Currently, the One Minute Film Festival, which Simon co-hosted with Moyra Davey for the past ten years, is on view at Mass MoCA. Most recently his work was included in Looking Back, The 7th White Columns Annual and in 2012 he had a one-person exhibition at Callicoon Fine Arts.

Danh Vo̅ (b. 1975 in Vietnam) was the winner of the Hugo Boss Prize in 2012. In honor of this award a solo exhibition of Vo’s work is currently on exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (through May 27, 2013). Recent solo exhibitions include Chung ga opla, Villa Medici, Rome, (2013); Mother Tongue at Marian Goodman Gallery; We the People, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, (2012); Autoerotic Asphyxiation, Artists Space, New York (2010); Where the Lions Are, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2009). He will have solo exhibitions at the Museion in Bolzano and the ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, this month.

Francesca Woodman (1958 - 1981) began photographing at the age of 13 and enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1975. After a year spent in Rome and completing her degree, she moved to New York, where, in 1981 at the age of 22, she committed suicide. In 2012, a comprehensive survey of the artist’s photographic output toured internationally, including SFMOMA and the Guggenheim.

Rona Yefman was born in Israel, and currently lives and works in New York City. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2009 and her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 1999. Her recent exhibitions include one-person shows at Participant Inc.,The Sculpture Center, N.Y, Derek Eller Gallery, N.Y, and Sommer Contemporary, TLV. Recent group exhibitions include the La Mep Museum, Paris, The Jewish Museum, N.Y, Ronald Feldman Fine Art, N.Y, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria, MoCA Cleveland, Ohio, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Lombard Fried Project, N.Y. Yefman’s first photography book, Rebel, Rebel, will be publish this year by Little Big Man Books, San Francisco, with an essay by Moyra Davey.

Nightboat Books, a nonprofit organization, seeks to develop audiences for writers whose work resists convention and transcends boundaries, by publishing books rich with poignancy, intelligence and risk. The press has published books of poetry and prose by many writers, including Etel Adnan, Caroline Bergvall, Tim Dlugos, Stacy Doris, Kathleen Fraser, Edouard Glissant, Rob Halpern, Michael Heller, Leland Hickman, Fanny Howe, Bhanu Kapil, Myung Mi Kim, Dawn Lundy Martin, Nathanaël, Bern Porter, and Gail Scott. In Spring 2014, Nightboat Books will publish Hervé Guibert’s journals, The Mausoleum of Lovers, translated by Nathanaël.

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from May 19, 2013 to June 21, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-05-19 from 18:00 to 20:00

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