DAVID CLAERBOUT
MARY LUCIER
David Claerbout
February 8-April 6, 2008
David Claerbout, Shadow Piece 2005This is the first museum survey exhibition of works by Belgian artist David Claerbout. Since 1996, Claerbout has explored the boundaries and overlaps between video and still photography, blurring the line between the still and the moving image. He digitizes found photographs and then introduces moving elements, and with them, time. He also uses digital video to create mini-narratives set in buildings or urban spaces that play on the changing light and passage of time to interrogate "the substance of time." Influenced by phenomenology, David Claerbout has developed a body of work that challenges our habitual perceptions, testing the limit of all forms of visual reproduction in his endeavor to transport reality. "I belong to a generation of artists that has problems with the aura of the art object, and that's why I work in a medium, digital video, historically associated with mass culture," says the artist.
David Claerbout is designed and organized by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France where it was on view from October 2, 2007-January 7, 2008. Centre Pompidou Curator of New Media Christine Van Assche is the curator of the exhibition. The exhibition will travel to the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (May-June 2008); and to the De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands; and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan in 2009.
(Excerpts from MIT press release)
Mary Lucier
January 14-March 7, 2008
Mary Lucier’s single-channel video work, Arabesque, is part of her larger five-channel installation, The Plains of Sweet Regret (2004), which was originally commissioned by the North Dakota Museum of Art.
Mary Lucier was born in Bucyrus, Ohio in 1944. She received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 1965, and moved to New York City in 1974, around the time that she began working in video. She has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Skowhegan Medal for Video, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Grant. She has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. Lucier’s solo exhibitions include those at North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks; the Lab at Belmar, Lakewood, Colorado; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Capp Street Project, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; and Madison Art Center, Wisconsin. Her work has also been exhibited in group shows at festivals and institutions including the American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Artspace, Sydney; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
(Excerpts from MIT press release)
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