I ♥ John Giorno is an unprecedented collaboration between leading non-profit and alternative spaces across New York, which are joining forces for the first time to mount a multilayered
exhibition on a single subject.
Not exact matches
While, intentionally, the core
exhibition doesn't present a
single theme, Macel sorted the works
on view into nine chapters, which she calls Trans - Pavilions, each featuring a trans - national selection of different artists based
on similarities and consonances in approach, personality, influences, and creative vision, thus focusing more
on art and artists than
on a theoretical, superimposed curatorial
subject.
On view through December 31, 2012, the
exhibition features some 150 works by 20 photographers who transcend the limits of the
single image by photographing the same
subjects - «primarily friends, family, and themselves» - over the course of days, months, years, and even decades.
When working with biographical material, the artist found the overall
subjects pressing and realised that some things are simply too important to only have a
single mind's view
on it — hence resulting in a group
exhibition.