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ANDRES SERRANO • KLANSWOMAN (GRAND KLALIFF II) , 1990 • CIBACHROME PRINT • PHOTO CREDITS: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND PAULA COOPER GALLERY, NY nuary 27-April 9, 1995 E I 8 I T I 0 N s

thwart our need for certainty at the apocalypse. Although the darkening sky and the light andresSERRANO: extraordinary century." rising from behind the cross may appear to spoof religion,

-From the Foreword, Patrick T. Murphy, Director, The Institute of Works 1983-1993 dealing with the cross in the landscape that Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia he had seen in selling religious paraphernalia." MAIN, NEW WORK, AND WORKSPACE GALLERIES

"The Klan asserts its identity and invincibility by -From Andres Serrano: Robert Hobbs, .... z The first major museum exhibition of New York effacing the bodies of its members, eliminating from Professor of Art History, University. .."' artist Andres Serrano features 50 large-scale color view anything that suggests weakness or vulnerability. © 1994, Robert Hobbs w E photographs from a prolific ten-year period. Important 0 The formal appearance of the Knights-abstract, :I:"' u works from each of the artist's thematic series will be geometrical, streamlined-is the totalitarian design "While taking photographs in the subways, he had to work .,< presented, along with a short video produced by the strategy of a Darth Vader. But Serrano's sharp focus quickly because he did not have a permit. He encouraged Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. subverts this attempt, revealing puckers in an each model to assume his or her own posture before the inexpertly pressed robe, childish stitching around camera; his only request was that they look to the left or The only funding for the exhibition has come from an eyehole, the hint of a rosy ear glimpsed through the right. The camera was placed twenty-four to thirty The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. who gave a generous a gap in a hood . In these revelations, the terrifying inches from the ground so that the viewer's eye would be grant for the Museum's presentation of this provocative idea gives way to a petty, incompetent reality, and, level with the middle of the model's chest. The intended artist's work. result? Aggrandizing his sitters. In taking his portable This mid-career retrospective studio to the homeless,

0 offers the public an z Serrano was reenacting the < opportunity to view Serrano's process developed by Irving "'w V) imagery-including his most Penn, the fine-arts and U) w "' sensational ized pieces-in fashion photographer, for his ~" the context of a consistent series of images of New body of work that critically Guinea tribesman, Worlds in a investigates notions of Small Room (1970). " religion, violence, homeless- -From Andres Serrano: The Body ness, racism, beauty, Politic, Robert Hobbs mortality, and the body.

The exhibition is accompanied "Serrano's exploration of by a catalogue published by the boundaries that keep the Institute of Contemporary humans from knowing Art, University of Pennsylvania, themselves, that separate Philadelphia. Excerpts from them from each other and essays in this first fully from the nonmaterial world, illustrated catalogue of follows a trajectory in religious the artist's career, Andres pictorial represen-tations from Serrano: Works 1983-1993, the early Renaissance on. appear below. Using religious subject matter as a hinge upon which "At an early period , photography was incorporated into the suddenly, the control of uniform, mask, questions of faith, mortality, ritual , and myth turn, Serrano program of science; the natural, medical, and social and abstraction collapses. Great Titan of the Invisible has created a body of work that parallels the role of disciplines all benefited from its qualities. Later, the Empire, indeed! " religion and belief in his own life. As he pointed out early photographic tradition of the tableau was joined to in his career, 'There's a lot of irony in my work, but it's not -From Introduction: Below Skin-deep, Wendy Steiner, Professor commodity marketing to create the media fantasies of sacrilegious. I've always thought that you feel God inside of Literature, University of Pennsylvania consumeristic society. The medium itself defined the you ; I don't consider myself religious, but I do consider representation of both the factual and the fantastic. For myself spiritual, which is why I'm not a heretic. I have no an artist like Serrano, these twin horns offered an ideal "On Good Friday 1985, Serrano photographed his Blood problem with God; my issue is with the Church , with the place upon which to rest a dilemma. To read a Serrano Cross in Leon Golub's studio .. .The tank for Blood Cross dogma and confusion, a perversion of the actual teaching, photograph becomes an exercise in the paradoxical. The started to leak as he filled it with blood (Serrano was just that seems to have failed Christianity. "' irreconcilables of form and content, Christianity and learning to work with Plexiglas) ; deciding that the image of magic, the scientific and the fantastic, the slick and the a dripping cross might prove interesting, he filled the tank -From An_dres Serrano: Retrospect, Marcia Tucker, raw-all are present and accounted for. His emphasis is to the top and photographed it against a spray-painted Director, The New Museum of Contemporary Art not on the provision of resolutions but the careful backdrop especially created to suggest an ersatz crafting of unanswerable propositions that seem to

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The exhibition and catalogue, organized by the N Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, "'.... were made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.; Henry S. McNeil, Jr.; Lynn and Harold Honickman; Ella B. Schaap; an anonymous donor; and the board, friends, and members of the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The video presented with the exhibition is produced by the Education Department of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

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The New Museum of Contemporary Art gratefully acknowledges the support of the following: The Lannan Foundation, The Norton Family Foundation, and Robert J. Shiffler for Visiting Hours; The Cowles Charitable Trust and an anonymous donor for the Multicultural Internship Program; the Gannett Communities Fund and the Nathan Cummings Foundation for the High School Art Program; the Institute of Museum Services for general operating support. The New Museum is supported, in part, by the Jerome Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment of the Arts, and our many members and friends. We thank all members and friends, in advance, for their continued support of The New Museum and their contributions to the Fall 1994 Annual Fund campaign. AN DRES SERR ANO • THE UNBORN , 199/i CI BAC HROME PRIN T • 28 1/2 X 24" COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND PAULA COOPER GALL E RY • $1 , 200

MuseumVIEWS The New Museum Goes Online In November, The New Museum made an initial leap into the digital cultural community impressive selection of works from both well known and emerging artists, on view at the by setting up a residence on New York Online (NYO), a local electronic bulletin board with Museum from April 20-30, 1995. The fun begins April 19th with the Auction Preview Party a gateway to the Internet. Subscribers to NYO can access a calendar of Museum events and continues through April 30th with the Si lent Auction at the Museum followed by the and participate in discussions of current exhibitions and other topics pertaining to Live Auction and Gala at the spectacular Ra inbow Room at Rockefeller Center. Benefit contemporary art. Special thanks to Peta Hoyes and Omar Wasow of NYO for generously Chair Lau ra Skoler and the Gala Committee are planning the festivities. providing Museum staff with email accounts and linking the Museum to the Internet. Donor Luncheon Visiting HOUTS Goes Digital Museum Director Marcia Tucker will host a luncheon for major donors and Patron level An online version of the fall 1994 exhibition Visiting Hours made its debut on the Internet members and above, on Tuesday, March 14th, from 12:30 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the in December. Organized by curator Laura Trippi with artists Bob Flanagan and Sheree Museum. Please call the Development department for information , (212) 219-1222. Rose, Rght Sickness with Sickness: Bob Flanagan 's Visiting Hours Online includes still images, video clips, poetry, and short descriptive texts, and has been featured on both Summer Trustees Tour to the XLVI International Art Exhibition in Venice: June 3-10, 1995 New Yo rk Online and HotWired, a World Wide Web site hosted by Wired magazine. The New Museum of Contemporary Art announces its Summer Trustees Tour to Ven ice Online Research and Exhibition Intern during the Biennale's 100th anniversary celebration . This tour of the XLVI International The Museum is currently seeking a part-time unpaid intern to assist in the development Art Exhibition, led by Museum Director Marcia Tucker and Assistant Director Susan and planning of future uses of computer networks for research, exhibition, outreach, and Cahan , is planned exclusively for the Board of Trustees, Director's Council members, and publication. Applicants should have some familiarity with Macintosh andjor Windows Patron level members. For reservations or more information, please call Maren Hensler, applications but it is more important that they be engaged with contemporary art and Biennale Tour Coordinator, (212) 219-1222. culture. For further information, contact Jerry Ph ilogene, Education department, Limited Editions to Benefit The New Museum (212) 219-1222. The New Museum offers a special selection of Limited Ed itions by recognized Spring Auction '95 Celebrates the Museum's 18th Birthday contemporary artists. The SCULPTURE SERIES, with works by Dennis Adams , Christian Mark your calendars for Sunday, April 30th, when The New Museum's 1995 Gala Benefit Boltanski, Ann Hamilton, Judith Shea , and Haim Steinbach, are available for $5,000 with & Auction will honor artist and educator John Baldessari and Trustee and art collector membership at the Associate level ($300), and above. Limited Editions of MULTIPLES Saul Dennison. With John Cheim (Robert Miller Gallery), Mary Sabbatino (Galerie Lelong), include works by Bruce Nauman, Lorna Simpson, Robert Therrien , Felix Gonzalez-Torres , and Jack Shainman (Jack Shainman Gallery) chairing the Auction , we look forward to an and Andres Serrano (pictured above) and are available from $50 to $2,500. For more information, please call the Special Events Office, (212) 219-1222.

AT THE FALL OPENING OF VISITING HOURS: AN INSTALLATION BY BOB FLANAGAN IN COLLABORATION WITH SHEREE ROSE , GUESTS MARVEL AT THEIR LIKENESS IN THE VIDEO COffiN. PHOTO : CATHERINE MCGANN

SCOTT WALEWSKI READS LAST RITES TO THE EAGER PATIENT , BOB FLANAGAN . PHOTO: CATHERINE MCGANN

AT THE VISITING HOURS OPENING "PATIENTS" PERUSE THE CHILDREN ' S LITERATURE IN THE MOCK HO S PITAL WAITING ROOM . PHOTO: CATHERINE MCGANN

IN BROOKLYN, ME MBERS EL LYN DENNISON. GEORGE MIL LS AND TRUSTEE SAU L DENNISON VISIT THE PRIV ATE COLLECTION OF ARTIST ANDRES SERRANO AS P ART OF THE OCTOBER 1994 DIRECTOR ' S COUNCIL WEEKEND TOUR . PHOTO : JULIA F ISHKIN

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