Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography, 1950s-Present     

curated by Maria Antonella Pelizzari

on view at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College

February 2 - April 28, 2012

 Opening reception: Thursday , February 2, 6 - 8pm 

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 1 - 6pm

http://peripheral-visions.net/

Marina Ballo Charmet / Olivo Barbieri/ Gabriele Basilico / Gianni Berengo Gardin / Mario Carrieri / Vincenzo Castella / Cesare Colombo / Mario Cresci / Paola Di Bello / Luigi Ghirri / Guidi Guidi / Alessandro Imbriaco / Francesco Jodice / Mimmo Jodice / Armin Linke / Maurizio Montagna / Paolo Monti / Ugo Mulas / Walter Niedermayr / Franco Vaccari /  Massimo Vitali

The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s-Present. This landmark exhibition, on view from February 3-April 28, 2012, showcases, for the first time in the United States, the works of major Italian photographers who have explored an alternative image of the country: a landscape bound to urban edges, focused on the discarded and the marginal, and deeply connected to a new identity which has developed side by side to the industrial and global transformation of Italian cities. The Hunter College Art Galleries are proud to share these innovative works with the Hunter Community and the City of New York. This group exhibition retraces the history back to the fifties, when photographers like Paolo Monti and Mario Carrieri focused on the blight and the beauty of a city like Milan, where an increasing urban sprawl was creating new social peripheries. The conceptual practices of Franco Vaccari and Ugo Mulas reveal the dynamic dialogue between photography and the overall artistic culture, leading up to Luigi Ghirri’s photography of a new Italian landscape that he treated with a particular color palette. Ghirri’s emphasis on the evocative power of the everyday recurs throughout the show and informs more recent and contemporary visions by artists such as Vincenzo Castella, Massimo Vitali, Francesco Jodice, and Paola Di Bello, among others. The installation also includes film-clips from well-known Italian movies, books and magazines where these photographs have been circulated, and a digital project built to illustrate pages from architectural magazines like Casabella, Domus and other archival sources. 

The Hunter College Art Galleries, under the auspices of the Department of Art and Art History, has been a vital aspect of the New York cultural landscape since its inception over a quarter-century ago. This exhibition, curated by Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Professor of Art History at Hunter College, is the result of an educational process developed with graduate students, who have been engaged in the curatorial process at every level. This project underscores the galleries’ unique ability to share the highest levels of academic scholarship and curatorial connoisseurship with the student community and the general public, thus facilitating a dynamic cultural exchange.

Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s-Present, is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari with writing by graduate students, and published by Charta Editions, Milan. An inter-disciplinary panel is being organized in conjunction with the exhibition on April 20 to discuss issues surrounding this topic. Please contact the gallery for further details. 

This exhibition is made possible with the support of GAD – Gusto, Arte, Design – Italian Excellence by Renato Niselli, ASLC – Associazione Culturale la Citta’, progetti per l’Arte, Isabella del Frate Rayburn and Maurice Kanbar, the Hunter College Art Galleries Fund in collaboration with YoungArts, the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and the Foundation To-Life. 

 Photograph by: Barbieri, Olivio. site Specific_Catania 09. 2009. Archival Pigment Print. 43 11/16 x 57 ½” (111 x 146.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist and the Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. Photo Courtesy of Olivo Barbieri

Please click here to see Installation shots from this show.

For further information please contact: Karli Wurzelbacher, Assistant Curator, HCAG at: kwurzelb@hunter.cuny.edu

Hunter College / Times Square Gallery 
450 West 41st Street, New York, NY, 10036, 212.772.4991 www.hunter.cuny.edu/art 

Notations: The Cage Effect Today

on view at the Hunter College Hunter College Time Square Gallery

curated by Joachim Pissarro,  with Bibi Calderaro, Julio Grinblatt and Michelle Yun

February 17-April 21, 2012 

Opening Reception: February 16, 6-8pm

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 1 - 6pm

http://www.notationsthecageeffecttoday.org/

William Anastasi / Soladad Arias / Céleste Boursier-Mougenot / John Cage / Waltercio Caldas / José Damasceno / Hanne Darboven / Matthew Deleget / Liz Deschenes / Felipe Dulzaides / León Ferrari / Robert Filliou / Yukio Fujimoto / Nicolás Guagnini / Lynne Harlow / Douglas Huebler / Gareth James / David Lamelas / Reiner Leist / Jorge Macchi / Christian Marclay / Rivane Neuenschwander / Kaz Oshiro / Edgardo Rudnitzky / Fred Sandback / Frank Scheffer / Ushio Shinohara / Linda Stillman / Daniel Wurtzel

The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Notations: The Cage Effect Today, on view from February 17-April 21, 2012. As 2012 marks the centennial of John Cage’s birth, this exhibition commemorates the widespread effect of the artist’s six decades of assiduous, and relentless inventive creation on subsequent generations of artists. Cage has been described as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, influencing many artists from Jasper Johns to Gerhard Richter, Robert Rauschenberg to Ellsworth Kelly, Nam June Paik to Yoko Ono, and from Joseph Beuys to Hélio Oiticica—each of whom played a significant role in the configuration of today’s art world. Cage has never been more vital than today—as seen through the legions of artists around the globe who tenaciously explore many of the tropes that Cage left behind. Notations: The Cage Effect Today examines the reverberation of his diverse influence throughout North America, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Some 28 artists selected for inclusion in the exhibition include Waltercio Caldas, Hanne Darboven, Liz Deschenes, David Lamelas, Christian Marclay, Kaz Oshiro, and Fred Sandback among many others.  These artists and their contemporaries have been inspired by John Cage’s multifarious approach to making art. Only through a close examination of what succeeding generations of artists have to say is it possible to measure the far-reaching extent of Cage’s unique legacy.  

The Hunter College Art Galleries, under the auspices of the Department of Art and Art History, has been a vital aspect of the New York cultural landscape since its inception over a quarter-century ago. This exhibition, curated by Joachim Pissarro, Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, together with Bibi Calderaro, Julio Grinblatt (MFA ’10) and Michelle Yun, is the result of an educational process developed with graduate students, who have been engaged in the curatorial process at every level. This project underscores the Galleries’ unique ability to share the highest levels of academic scholarship and curatorial connoisseurship with the student community and the general public, thus facilitating a dynamic cultural exchange.

Notations: The Cage Effect Today, is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Dr. Pissarro, Bibi Calderaro and Julio Grinblatt and includes plate entries by graduate students. The book will be distributed by Charta Editions, Milan. A plethora of public programming including inter-disciplinary concerts, film screenings and a mushroom hunting event are being organized to complement the exhibition. Please contact the Gallery for further details.  

Hunter College is deeply grateful to the following donors, whose generous support has made this exhibition possible: Peter M. Brant, The Brant Foundation, Inc.; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; The Foundation To-Life; Agnes Gund; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and The Ruth Stanton Foundation.

For a full list of Notations: The Cafe Effect Today Public Programs: please click here. 

Photograph: Linda Stillman, Daily Paintings, detail: 2007, 2007. Acrylic and gouache on paper mounted on panels. 365 panels: 77 x 47 x3/8" overall. Photograph courtesy of the artist.  

Please click here for Installation shots from this show.

For further information please contact: Karli Wurzelbacher, Assistant Curator, HCAG at: kwurzelb@hunter.cuny.edu

Hunter College / Times Square Gallery 
450 West 41st Street, New York, NY, 10036, 212.772.4991 www.hunter.cuny.edu/art