En la carretera

Andy Warhol, Catherine Opie, Allen Ruppersberg

Exposición: May 13 – Sep 5, 2010


On the Road toma su título del legendario libro del poeta y novelista estadounidense Jack Kerouac, quien relata sus memorables viajes por carretera por los Estados Unidos a fines de la década de 1940. La exposición investiga la mitología de la aventura automovilística estadounidense que comenzó a desarrollarse a principios de la década de 1920, con el advenimiento de inmensas expansiones del sistema de carreteras, particularmente en el oeste del país. Con dos componentes interrelacionados, la primera parte de la exposición presenta las prácticas de artistas cuyas imágenes y obras se han asociado durante mucho tiempo con la exploración de Occidente a través del automóvil. La segunda parte es el resultado de una reciente excursión de dos semanas a través de Texas por parte del curador, durante la cual se recopilaron varios artefactos y documentos para exhibirlos. Más allá de mirar el viaje por carretera desde un punto de vista nostálgico, On the Road explora la idea de tal impulso como un rito de iniciación, un viaje hacia la emancipación en el camino hacia un destino que puede ser en gran parte desconocido pero que encierra la promesa de autodescubrimiento liberador.

Artista

Andy Warhol

New York, New York, USA

Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Died in New York, NY in 1987.

Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).

Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression «15 minutes of fame». In the late 1960s he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine.

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Artista

Catherine Opie

Los Angeles, California, USA

Catherine Opie was born in 1961 in Sandusky, Ohio and received her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in 1988. Her work was included in notable exhibitions throughout the 1990s, including: The American Century (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1999 ); Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997 (The Lousiana Museum, Denmark, 1997); Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photograpghy (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997); Persona (Renaissance Society, Chicago, 1996); In a Different Light (University Art Museum at Berkeley, 1995); among others. In 1997 she was awarded the Citibank Private Bank Emerging Artist Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

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Artista

Allen Ruppersberg

New York, New York, USA

Allen Ruppersberg is an internationally-known conceptual artist whose humorous installations, sculptures and actions blend popular culture with art history and literary references.
Ruppersberg was born in 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio and received his B.F.A. from the Chouinard Institute in Los Angeles. Since the late 1960s, his work has been the subject of over sixty solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group shows. Career highlights include participation in the Whitney Biennials (1970, 1975, 1991), Documenta V (1972), Lyon Biennale (1997), and Sculpture Project Munster (1998). In 1985, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles organized a major exhibition of Ruppersberg’s work. Recent exhibitions include Frac Limousin, Limoges, France (1999); Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1998); and Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (1997). Ruppersberg lives and works in New York, NY.

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Curador

Jens Hoffmann

San Francisco, California, USA

Jens Hoffmann was appointed Director of the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco in 2006. Before assuming his position at the CCA Wattis Institute, Hoffmann was director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. At the ICA he organized several group exhibitions, including Alien Nation (2006); 100 Artists See God (2004-5); and Artists’ Favorite (2004). He has curated solo exhibitions for John Bock, Cerith Wyn Evans, Tino Sehgal, Jonathan Monk and Martha Rosler. Hoffmann has worked for institutions and exhibitions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY; Documenta X, Kassel, Germany; and Portikus Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, among others. Recent publications include Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture (Phaidon, 2007), co-authored with nine other curators; The Next Documenta Should be Curated by an Artist (Revolver, 2004); and Perform (Thames & Hudson, 2005), co-authored with Joan Jonas.
 

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