Not exact matches
Made in L.A. 2012, the Hammer's first large -
scale biennial, officially closed September 2, but if you missed the
exhibition you are not entirely out of luck.
Of course, governments and local councils have been using the spectacular power of large -
scale or monolithic
exhibitions to boost the economic viability and cultural status of cities and countries since the 19th century — an impulse that still drives
biennial fever today.
AS MUCH OF A LONER AS Kertess can be, he knew that an
exhibition of this
scale could not be put together without substantial help and he found it mostly from within the Whitney: Minou Roufail, his assistant, who oversaw the logistics of the show with a temperament similar to Kertess's combination of gentle firmness and utter precision; Matthew Yokobosky, a young assistant curator of film and video who is also a set designer and whom Kertess, unwilling to yield control of the
biennial layout to an outside architect, tapped as the
exhibition designer, and John Hanhardt, the Whitney's curator of film and video who advised Kertess in those areas, in which he admits limited expertise.
This has been visible both in large -
scale exhibitions and
biennials and in the willingness of institutions to experiment with their own formats and models.
«As an experimental program of
exhibitions, residencies and public events, FRONT investigates what it means to stage a large -
scale international
biennial or triennial today, looking carefully at the feasibility, necessity and structures of large art events, proposing alternatives and reprioritizing typical
exhibition hierarchies,» says FRONT's Executive Director, Fred Bidwell.
She was co-curator of the 5th Berlin Biennial in 2008 with Adam Szymczyk, and has edited or co-edited a number of anthologies on global
exhibition histories, including «The Artist as Curator: An Anthology» (Mousse Publications, 2017), «The Biennial Reader: Anthology on Large -
Scale Perennial
Exhibitions of Contemporary Art» (Hatje Cantz, 2010), and «The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art
Exhibitions and
Biennials in Post-Wall Europe» (MIT Press, 2005).
CalArts alumni and faculty account for more than a third of the 60 artists featured in the large -
scale survey
exhibition Made in L.A. 2012, the inaugural edition of the new citywide
biennial that opened this past weekend at the Hammer Museum and the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Park.