AFTER NATURE, a major exhibition at the New Museum, NY, Jul 17 - Sept 21

Posted on July 18, 2008 at 10:53 AM.

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Exhibition Title: "AFTER NATURE"

Artist Name: Allora and Calzadilla, Paweł Althamer, Micol Assaël, Fikret Atay, Roger Ballen, Huma Bhabha, Maurizio Cattelan, William Christenberry, Roberto Cuoghi, Bill Daniel,Berlinde De Bruyckere, Nathalie Djurberg, ReverendHoward Finster, Nancy Graves, Werner He
Dates: July 17th - Sptember 21st, 2008
Website: http://www.newmuseum.org

Exhibition Description:

This summer the New Museum will pesent a major exhibition spanning three floors. The theme, "AFTER NATURE", explores visions of the end and a future landscape of wilderness and ruins.

Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions brings together an international and multigenerational group of contemporary artists, filmmakers, writers, and outsiders, whose artworks possess a strange, prophetic intensity, to depict this story of abandonment, regression, and rapture.

An epic of humanity coming apart under the pressure of obscure forces and not-so-distant environmental disasters.

Description:

Image: Courtesy Werner Herzog, K.Gray ad the New Museum.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog, has departed from his fictional documentaries for the exhibition and created an anthology of visions and epiphanies--a hallucinated panorama of a world on the verge of disappearance.

The exhibition is an engaging and elegiac show including the light of the stars captured on paper, plants bathing in artificial light, idols sculpted from skins and straw, mutant bodies encased in glass sarcophagi, dances and obsessive litanies scribbled in the midst of a frenzy .

"After Nature" unfolds as a visual novel and a feverish examination of humankind's relationship to nature, suspended between a remote past and a not-so-distant future.

Full Contact Details:

Thursday
July 17, 2008
9:30-11:30 a.m.

10 a.m. Introduction by Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions

New Museum
235 Bowery
New York City