TRAVELOGUE – SANTIAGO, CHILE WITH CAMILA MARAMBIO
Whenever Wednesday, April 20 @ 6:30pm
Take several "staycations" and visit faraway art centers through the eyes of those who know them
best—all without leaving Philadelphia. Travelogue continues its year-long series of lectures
by curators, writers, and artists with a talk by
Camila Marambio. Marambio is Head of the Visual Arts Department of Matucana 100, a contemporary arts center,
and teaches at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago.
MIRANDA // THE ICA BLOG
For a peek at what happens at a Travelogue, read
Miranda on an earlier lecture by
Virginija Januskeviciute of Vilnius, Lithuania, where bagels have recently been re-introduced and parents
are surprisingly happy when their children decide to become artists.
Curators spend a lot of time traveling to where the art is...
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SPRING OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, April 21 @ 6-8pm
Join us for the opening of two new exhibitions,
One is the loneliest number and
"That's How We
Escaped": Reflections on Warhol, on view through August 7, 2011.
One is the loneliest number
presents emerging artist duos based in Philadelphia and elsewhere. It
features five collaboratives working in a variety of media, using a
spectrum of approaches to highlight a collective mode that is
increasingly present in contemporary practice.
Ken Okiishi (and Google) translate poet Arthur Rimbaud and
Nick Mauss illustrates directly onto the pages of the new manuscript.
Lucas Ajemian and
Julien Bismuth engage Lettrism, a French avant-garde movement from the 1940s, through a range of mediums.
Nicole Cherubini and
Taylor Davis push a playful obsession with materials through their collaboration as Davis, Cherubini. Working seamlessly,
Nadia Hironaka and
Matthew Suib create gallery-scale video projections. Philadelphia-based Megawords (
Anthony Smyrski and
Dan Murphy) occupy the ICA mezzanine with a series of collaboration-themed events that accompany the exhibition.
"It was incredible to think of it happening at an art opening. Even a Pop Art opening. But then, we weren't just at the art exhibit—we were the art exhibit, we were the art incarnate." —Andy Warhol
"That's How We Escaped": Reflections on Warhol illuminates
a night on Penn's campus that transformed an artist into a celebrity. A
collaborative effort between Penn students in the Spiegel Contemporary
Art Freshman Seminar and artist Alex Da Corte spotlights the night of
October 8, 1965, the opening of Andy Warhol's first solo museum show,
held at ICA (then located in the Fisher Fine Arts Library). Through a
marriage of conceptual and archival elements, the show presents an
interpretation of what was arguably the turning point of Warhol's
career. It features 24 works, including photographs from the night
itself, and an installation by Da Corte reconceptualizing the staircase
by which Warhol and his entourage escaped from the crowd, into the
night, and on to superstardom.
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