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Abstraction's Resilience

Abstraction's Resilience - Professor Briony Fer, University College London

4/24/2012
4 pm – 5 pm
13 Carpenter Hall
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Exhibitions, Lectures & Seminars
The lecture will look at the ways in which the work of several key contemporary artists is still haunted by the legacies of geometric abstraction, especially the work of Malevich and the Russian revolutionary avantgarde, but also the work of the Brazilian Neo-concretists of the 1950s and 60s such as Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica. The lecture will consider "resilience" as a critical rather than conciliatory concept that enables us to think about abstraction's survival.in spite of the unpropitious circumstances we find ourselves in.

Professor Fer has published extensively on 20th century and contemporary art. Key publications include her books On Abstract Art (2000) and The Infinite Line (2004), both published by Yale University Press. She has written on many contemporary artists, including Gabriel Orozco, Roni Horn, Vija Celmins, Ed Ruscha, Rachel Whiteread and David Batchelor. Much of her research has focused on the work of the American sculptor Eva Hesse, writing for the 2002 retrospective of the artist curated by Elisabeth Sussman at SFMOMA in 2002. She is now involved in writing a book and co-curating an exhibition of Hesse.s studiowork.
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