Until Sunday January 26 2020
For six
decades, Haacke has been a pioneer in kinetic art, environmental art,
Conceptual art, and institutional critique. This retrospective brings together
more than thirty works from across the artist’s career, focusing in particular
on the way he expanded the parameters of his practice to encompass the social,
political, and economic structures in which art is produced, circulated, and
displayed. The exhibition includes a number of Haacke’s rarely seen kinetic
works, environmental sculptures, and visitor polls of the late 1960s and early
’70s, all of which were central to discussions around systems aesthetics in art
during that period; works from the 1970s and ’80s addressing the corporate
sponsorship of major art institutions and political interference; and more
recent works considering the intersection of global capitalism, nationalism,
and humanitarian crises around the world. The exhibition also serves as the New
York premiere of Haacke’s sculpture Gift Horse (2014), a bronze sculpture of a horse’s
skeleton adorned with an LED ribbon streaming stock prices in real time, which
the artist originally created for London’s Fourth Plinth program. This
long-overdue assessment of his work highlights its formal and critical
complexity and the remarkable consistency with which he has approached the
relationship between art and society.
This
exhibition is curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Curator, and
Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director. The exhibition is
accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue copublished by the New Museum and
Phaidon Press.
Hans Haacke
was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1936, and has lived and worked in New York
since 1965. He has had solo exhibitions at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofía, Madrid (2012); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (2011, 1967);
X Initiative, New York (2009); Generali Foundation, Vienna (2001); Serpentine
Gallery, London (2001); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1996);
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (1995); Centre Pompidou, Paris (1989); Tate
London (1984); Renaissance Society, Chicago (1979); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven (1979); Modern Art Oxford, UK (1978); and Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Frankfurt (1976), among others. His last major American survey exhibition took
place at the New Museum in 1986. He has participated in international
exhibitions including documenta, Kassel (2017, 1997, 1987, 1982, 1972); Lyon
Biennial (2017); Venice Biennale (2015, 2009, 1993, 1976); Liverpool Biennial
(2014); Mercosul Biennial (2013); Sharjah Biennial (2011); Gwangju Biennale
(2008); Whitney Biennial, New York (2000); Skulptur Projekte Münster (1997,
1987); Johannesburg Biennial (1997); Sydney Biennial (1990, 1984); São Paulo
Biennial (1985); and Tokyo Biennial (1970). He won the prestigious Golden Lion
(shared with Nam June Paik) at the Venice Biennale in 1993.
Event
website: http://www.newmuseum.org
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