WHENEVER WEDNESDAY
TRAVELOGUE—PARIS
PIERRE LEGUILLON

Wednesday, February 23 @ 6:30pm

Take a "staycation" and visit the museums, galleries, and artists' studios of Paris with guest artist, critic, and curator Pierre Leguillon. Mr. Leguillon lives and works in Paris. He published the journal Sommaire (1991- 1996), and created projects for such magazines as the Journal des Arts, Art press, and Purple. Simultaneously, as part of his art practice he photographed exhibitions, and in 1993 began using these images in art works that take the form of slideshows. Since October 2008, he has operated at the CAPC Bordeaux a franchise of "La promesse de l'écran" ("The Promise of the Screen"), a screening space and bar initiated in Paris in 2007. His "ready-to-hang" exhibition, Pierre Leguillon features Diane Arbus, a Printed Retrospective, 1960–1971 belongs to the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, and was recently shown at Moderna Museet in Malmö. A solo show of his work opened in Mamco, Geneva this past fall.

ICA thanks The Knight Foundation Donor-Advised Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation for sponsoring this program. Co-presented with the Curator's Perspective series at Independent Curators International, New York.


PENNDESIGN FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES @ ICA
WITH JOSIAH MCELHENY

Thursday, February 24 @ 6pm

Hear renowned artists speak about their work as this popular series of public lectures continues with Josiah McElheny. Mr. McElheny received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and apprenticed with master glassblowers Ronald Wilkins, Jan-Erik Ritzman, Sven-Ake Caarlson, and Lino Tagliapietra. He creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. He currently lives and works in New York.

McElheny's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Orchard, and Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Donald Young Gallery in Chicago, Institut im Glaspavillon in Berlin, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, White Cube in London, and the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has written for Artforum and Cabinet among other publications and is a contributing editor to BOMB. Recently published monographs and artist books include Josiah McElheny: A Prism (Rizzoli, 2010), The Light Club (University of Chicago Press, 2010), A Space for an Island Universe (Turner Publications, 2009), and Island Universe (White Cube, 2008).