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In conjunction with her exhibition Classical Frieze at Erna Hecey Gallery, artist, writer, and filmmaker Eleanor Antin will read from her memoir, Conversations with Stalin, a text that switches between "absurdist comic confession and ironical pathos." As yet another incarnation of Antin's complex life and thought, Conversations with Stalin plays with heterogeneous narrative registers and biographies - specifically, in this case, upon the artist's own experience of growing up in 1950s America in a Jewish, Communist, Eastern European immigrant household.
Antin's 2002 photographic exhibition at the Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, "The Last Days of Pompeii," received the AICA (International Association of Art Critics) First Place award for Best Show by a Mid-Career Artist. Those works traveled to Vienna, Milan, Los Angeles, San Diego, and elsewhere. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and a major retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1999 which traveled to the Washington University Museum in Saint Louis before touring the UK. In 2009, Antin returned to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with a solo exhibition titled "Classical Frieze". Other recent solo presentations include "Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes" at the San Diego Art Museum and "Helen's Odyssey" at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, both in 2008. Antin has participated in innumerable group exhibitions including documenta 12 in Kassel, WACK: Art and the Feminist Revolution in Los Angeles, MOCA, New York, PS1 and Vancouver, and elles@centrepompidou in Paris. Antin is represented in major public collections including those of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum, Museion Bolzano, FNAC - Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
“Classical Frieze“ is Eleanor Antin’s third exhibition at Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels.
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