NYAB Event - “Literary Devices” Exhibition

“Literary Devices” Exhibition

Fisher Landau Center For Art

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Fisher Landau Center for Art announces “LITERARY DEVICES”, an exhibition dedicated to the methods & strategies displayed by visual artists using language to convey their message. Highlighting Emily Fisher Landau’s passion for collecting text based artwork, the exhibition includes over 100 pieces by 40 artists spanning all three floors of the Center.

Direct references to literary classics are found in Tim Rollins & KOS tribute to Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” (1851), Shirin Neshat’s “Tooba Series” (2002) inspired by Shahrnoush Parsipour’s novel “Women without Men.”(1990) & separate reflections on Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1891) by Yinka Shonibare & Allen Ruppersberg. Other techniques employ conceptual approaches such as Glenn Ligon’s fragmented literature found in the “Dreambook” (1990), “Narrative” (1993) & “Runaway” (1993) series, Steve Wolfe’s precise sculptural reenactments of the novels that shaped his intellectual practice & Carl Andre’s operatic ode to de Kooning/Pollack/Gorky, visualized as a typed poem on carbon paper. Richard Artschwager imagines “Diderot’s Last Resort” (1992) as a monumental encyclopedia displayed atop a religious pedestal, while Saint Clair Cemin fashions “Homage to Sartre” (1989) in three dimensions, using steel & bronze to evoke the hand of Giacometti. Simon Linke’s painted reproduction of an Artforum advertisement for “Galleri Pieroni-Roma” (1988) is displayed next to Ed Ruscha’s “Christ Candle” (1987), referencing the iconic square format that Ruscha designed for Artforum’s magazine layout in the 1960’s. The Center’s lobby houses an installation made from a selection of Rodney Graham’s historical bookworks such as “Freud Supplement (170a-170d)” & “Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique” (1989), displayed on Donald Judd’s black walnut “Desk Set” (1985) accompanied by Jenny Holzer’s boxed “Survival Series” (1991).

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