ADistanced View: Seven Year~ of living Art Rear Window One Aspect of Recent Art from Belgium, Franee, The Window OnBroadway Thursday, October 2 and Sunday, Baseball ActWn Shots Annual: Germany and Holland September 26 through Future Hall of Famers November 2, noon to 6:00 p.m. November 30 September 26 through On December 8, 1984 artist Linda Montano began a seven-year The collaborative team of Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel has September 26 through performance piece entitled Seven Years of Living Art. It is a multi- created a window installation of unusual scope, entitled Triptych , November 30 faceted, highly complicated and intricate method of presentation, presented as a self-contained universe with references to the earth's November 30 The recent explosion of interest in Italian and German neoexpres- focusing on the artists intent to blur the distinctions between art and natural forces and elements. juxtaposed by its placement in perhaps Susan Graysons photographs and installation featuring dramatic sionist painting in the United States and abroad has resulted in a re- life by creating a mirror image of her private activities within the one of the most commercial areas of urban New York, the installation sequential action shots of baseball players focusing on several recently newed interest in European art, but has also minimized recognition of public space of the Museum. is at once mysterious and accessible, provoking a sense of awe, retired stars. To be published by Neil Jenney. artists working in more conceptual modes. A Distanced View: One For one day each month, Montano occupies the Mercer Street appreciation and awareness of the surrounding phenomena that make Aspecl of Recent Art/rom Belgium, France, Germany and Holland window, where she spends the afternoon discussing art and life with up our environment and that the artists feel are almost extinct in the introduces, for the first time in a major U.S. museum exhibition, visitors to the Museum who wish to join her. Her performances this urban milieu. European artists whose work, while having its roots in Minimalism fall will take place from noon to 6:00 on Thursday, October 2 and at "Art should arrest one's attention," the artists have stated, and and Conceptual art, has moved beyond the limits of those the same time on Sunday, November 2. "seize one from the mania and the frenzy of metropolitan life; draw approaches. Following the teachings of the Yoga Chakras, a system for locating one into another realm for a moment, permit one to wonder at the very The exhibition features the work of fourteen artists, including two centers of consciousness, Montano has structured the seven years to nature of existence." The primary goal of their work is to stimulate a Membership collaborative teams, who have received virtually no attention in the correspond to the seven energy centers of the body. Each Chakra has sense of wonder in the mystery of the phenomena of life. United States and whose work represents a departure from the main- its complementary visual focus, color, tone and psychological state. Jones and Ginzel's Triptych portrays three divided realms. On the The New Museum needs your help to continue its programs. Your stream neoexpressionist style. The works include sculpture, photog- Consequently, each year Montano utilizes a different color in the left is pandemonium, with dust storms and swirling spheres. In membership in The New Museum is an opportunity to support art raphy and installations by Lili Dujourie and Jan Vercruysse from window and for her clothing, and develops a persona with a corre- contrast, the right portion of the triptych is calm: the floor is a by living artists. We invite your participation. Belgium; BAZILEBUSTAMANTE, Marie Bourget and sponding accent. In 1985, the color was red, and Montano spoke landscape of white powder, a scale weighs mounds of white pigment Gerard Collin-Thiebaut from France; Katharina Fritsch, Astrid with a French accent. This year the artist employs the color orange, against black, and suspended above, a slowly turning gold hoop CATEGORIES OF MEMBERSHIP Klein, J:-larald Klingelholler and Klaus vom Bruch from Germany; and speaks with a Spanish accent. Each successive year Montano will gathers momentum until it appears as a sphere. The triptych is move the day of her performance until, in the final year, the perfor- and Fortuyn/O'Brien, Gea Kalksma and Niek Kemps from Hol- completed by a brilliantly lit hemisphere which radiates light from I wish to enroll as a member of The New Museum in the category mance will occur on the seventh day of the month. land. above to the scenes below. indicated below: These artists have chosen a hybrid approach to art making, Through her commitment to a project of this duration, Montano regards herself as a "guinea pig for consciousness," disciplining her working with overlaps and crossovers between various media includ- 0 $25 Artist/Student/Senior Citizen (62 or older) ing manipulated photographs, video and slide installations, industrial daily life to evoke a level of awareness that she can translate to • Free Admission to Exhibitions materials and mass-produced objects. They create works that are Museum visitors. A discussion with her during her tenure in the • 10% Discount on Museum Publications invested with a variety of associative meanings. The artists do not Mercer Street window will be a unique experience. • Calendar of events constitute a new "school" nor do they form a cohesive stylistic group. • Advance Notice of Special Events They do share a distanced or mediated approach consciously avoid- Limited Editions • I0 % discount on art supplies at ing a personal imprint on the work of art while engaging in an ongoing New York Central for artist members questioning of the role of the artist in a postindustrial and information- The Museum has commissioned a very special limited edition by artist • Invitations to Exhibition Openings glutted society. The artists are outside the dominant modes of painting Donald judd in a continuation of the Museum's on-going fund-raising • Reduced Admission to Lectures, Symposia and sculpture and·, according to curator Lynn Gumpert, they efforts. An exquisite, streamlined sculpture, this untitled work repre- and Panel Discussions "consider themselves image makers and do not claim to invent some- sents an excellent example of the minimal modular units for which Li~rary $35 thing new, but instead to redefine or re-present." They strive to create Judd is renowned. 0 Individual work which "takes into account its context and mode of presentation. 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Two men • Invitations to Special Openings with The cooperation of several agencies and institutions has been current and backdated domestic and international art magazines, point a finger at one another and then poke each others eyes. Neon in Artists & Curators essential in the development and presentation of this exhibition and all· critical journals and small press publications are also featured, as well six bright colors highlight this graphic action.