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February 17-April 10, 2010
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ARTISTS
Thorsten Brinkmann, Moyra Davey, Elizabeth Gerdeman, Ellen Harvey, Matts Leiderstam, Ryan McGinley, Anna Molska, Susan Sontag, Eve Sussman/The Rufus Corporation, Darren Waterston
CURATOR
James Voorhies
As a companion exhibition to Descent to Revolution, Calling Beauty returns to the gallery as a site for primary engagement with art, continuing an investigation of an aesthetics of daily life. In the essay “An Argument About Beauty” Susan Sontag traces the evolving definition of beauty from concepts of rarity and exclusivity to less discriminatory notions of it. While beauty is historically associated with high culture, class and refinement elicited by old master and modernist art, for example, Sontag delves into alternative notions of what is beautiful, pondering beauty in that not always considered as such. Calling Beauty does not serve to illustrate Sontag’s essay. But amidst the countless texts from Plato, Kant and Damisch to Greenberg and Fried, her words are valuable points of entry for considering what has been traditionally viewed as beautiful, how that view has influenced contemporary art, and how it has shaped, paradoxically, an aesthetics of the everyday. Has beauty turned on itself?
With a consideration of this question, Calling Beauty is organized around four basic pillars of reflection: still life, landscape, nude and portraiture. It includes work by participants who draw peripherally and specifically on traditional subjects generally deemed beautiful within the realm of art. But, their practices bring to the surface a retreat from that tradition to a contemporary reconsideration of it, thus a renewed engagement with historic artistic conventions.
INSTITUTION
Columbus College of Art & Design
PRODUCERS
Diana Matuszak, Nicholas Hoffman, Greg Browe, Ian Horn, Brian Sharrock, Cassandra Troyan, Justin Luna, Palmer Pattison, Nate Padavick, John Ewing
ECONOMY
Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, CD101
Publication
Did you experience this exhibition? If so, please tell us what you think.
Susan Sontag, "An Argument About Beauty” from AT THE SAME TIME: ESSAYS & SPEECHES, edited by Paolo Dilonardo and Anne Jump. Copyright © 2007 by The Estate of Susan Sontag. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
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Thorsten Brinkmann, Villa Silverbaum, from the series Portraits of a Serialsammler, 2005–present
c-prints, pigment on decorative wallpaper, and found objects
dimensions variable
© Thorsten Brinkmann
courtesy of the artist and Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin
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Ellen Harvey, My Collection Inadequately Documented. Guest-Room, 2009
oil on wood panel, 20 x 20 x 1.5 inches
courtesy of the artist and Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
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Moyra Davey, Photographs from Paris, 2009
16 c-prints, postage, tape, ink
11 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches each
courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York
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Ryan McGinley, Fireworks Hysteric, 2007-2008
c-print, 40 x 30 inches
courtesy Mark Fletcher and Tobias Meyer
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Anna Molska, Tanagram, 2006-2007
video, DVD copy, 5:10 minutes
courtesy of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
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Eve Sussman and The Rufus Corporation, Dog Rolls, 2004
video still from 89 Seconds at Alcázar, 11 minutes
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Elizabeth Gerdeman, Grandeur: From Cole, Church, Bierstadt and Moran, 2010
latex paint, 27 x 11 feet
site-based mural situated in Canzani Center Gallery
Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
courtesy of the artist
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Matts Leiderstam, Paris, 15-03-1999, Returned. Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, made after Nicolas Poussin's Spring or The Earthly Paradise, Rome 1660-1664, 2000-2001
dimensions variable
courtesy of the artist and Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
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Darren Waterston, Beata, 2008
oil on wood panel, 47 x 36 inches
courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco
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Installation images courtesy of Justin Luna.
