“Répétiteur” Exhibition

New York City Center

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Répétiteur returns to New York City Center’s Harkness Studio.

Site-specific artwork celebrates City Center’s 75th Anniversary and Merce Cunningham’s Centennial.

“Jorge Otero-Pailos aims to make something permanent and tangible from the fleeting impermanence of a dance performance.” —ArtNet
“Répétiteur is an exhibit that must be experienced to be appreciated.”—World Architects

Répétiteur, a site-specific art installation by internationally renowned visual artist Jorge Otero- Pailos, returns to New York City Center’s Harkness Studio, March 2 – 10, as part of the institution’s inaugural program of visual art commissions and the Merce Cunningham Centennial. Since its founding as Manhattan’s first-ever performing arts center, New York City Center has been a home to artists from the worlds of dance, theater, opera, and music. In honor of the 75th Anniversary Season, City Center has commissioned a program of visual art, co-curated by Deborah Goodman Davis and VP of Programming Stanford Makishi, featuring the works of Otero-Pailos, photographer Nina Robinson, and conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner.

Répétiteur by Jorge Otero-Pailos Harkness Studio

JORGE OTERO-PAILOS (born in 1971, Madrid, Spain) is a New York-based artist best known for making monumental casts of historically charged buildings. Drawing from his formal training in architecture and preservation, Otero-Pailos’ art practice deals with memory, culture, and transitions, and invites the viewer to consider buildings as powerful agents of change. His site-specific series, The Ethics of Dust, is an ongoing, decade-long investigation resulting from cleaning dust and the residue of pollution from monuments such as the Doge’s Palace in Venice; Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament, London; the U.S. Old Mint in San Francisco; and Trajan’s Column at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Otero-Pailos also explores re- enactment as an artistic practice, by recreating historical odors (Philip Johnson Glass House, New Canaan, CT), performing past events (Harold Egerton Bullet through Apple, M.I.T. Museum, Cambridge), or by capturing the intangible transfer of dance knowledge by modern dance master Merce Cunningham, using light, sound, and space (Répétiteur, City Center for Performing Arts, New York). Otero-Pailos’ works are to be found in the collections of SFMoMA, The British Museum, and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna. He participated in the 53rd Venice Art Biennial (2009), and the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017), among others. oteropailos.com