Assemblance—curated
by Paula Bigboy, Paul Brewer, Nicole Caruth, Davida Ingram, Camilla
Pignatti
Morano, Ramona Piagentini,
and Erin Salazar—focuses on the artists' interest in the body.
(Left) Ana
Mendieta
Untitled (Facial Hair Transplants) Mar–Apr. 1972
1972
Color photograph
Marieluise Hessel Collection on permanent loan to the Center for Curatorial
Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
(Right) Robert
Mapplethorpe
Self-Portrait
1980
Gelatin silver print
Marieluise Hessel Collection on permanent loan to the Center for Curatorial
Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Copyright © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used with permission.
Featuring works by Vanessa Beecroft, Patty Chang, Cheryl Donegan,
Nikki S.
Lee, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ana Mendieta, Mariko Mori, Bruce Nauman,
Martha Rosler, Daniela Rossell, Cindy Sherman, and Coco Fusco (in
collaboration with Guillermo Gómez-Peña), the exhibition
investigates the borders between the social and the individual
within an image-based culture.
Assemblance will be on show at the Center for Curatorial
Studies, Bard College, February 1–15, alongside two other
exhibitions—-If
it's not love, it's the bomb... and s
u s p e n d e d s t
a t e. Curated by first-year
students in
the Center's graduate program, the exhibitions present works from
the Marieluise Hessel Collection, on permanent loan to the Center.
The exhibitions and the reception are open to the public without
charge.
An opening reception is planned for Sunday, February
1, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Programs at the Center, including the first-year
exhibitions, are supported by the Friends of the Center for Curatorial
Studies and
by the Center’s annual benefit for student scholarships and exhibitions.
Three groups of curatorial thesis exhibitions—curated by second-year
students in the graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary
art—will be on view March 7 through March 21, April 4 through April
18, and May 9 through
May 23.
