Deutsches Haus at NYU presents:nAn In-Depth Look at ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60sna panel discussion to coincide with ZERO: Count...
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents:nAn In-Depth Look at ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60sna panel discussion to coincide with ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s - 60s at the Guggenheim Museum with the exhibition’s curator Valerie Hillings, the ZERO Foundation research assistant, Tiziana Caianiello, and Julia Robinson, Assistant Professor of Art History at NYU.nNovember 17th, 2014nnZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s, is the first large-scale historical survey in the United States dedicated to the German artists' group Zero (1957–66) founded by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene and joined in 1961 by Günther Uecker, and ZERO, an international network of like-minded artists from Europe, Japan, and North and South America—including Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Piero Manzoni, Almir Mavignier, Jan Schoonhoven, and Jesús Rafael Soto—who shared the group’s aspiration to transform and redefine art in the aftermath of World War II. Featuring more than 40 artists from 10 countries, the exhibition explores the experimental practices developed by this extensive ZERO network of artists, whose work anticipated aspects of Land art, Minimalism, and Conceptual art.nnThe panel discussion will focus on this important chapter in art history that began with the foundation of ZERO in Düsseldorf in 1957, and examine the group’s broadening international reach through the 1960’s and finally its vast global network, which lies at the heart of the Guggenheim exhibition.nnValerie Hillings: Since joining the curatorial staff in 2004, has organized and co-organized exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Deutsche Guggenheim, and the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, including Russia!; Hanne Darboven's Hommage à Picasso; Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection; Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s, and ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She has also curated major presentations of works from the Guggenheim collection for venues in Abu Dhabi, Australia, and Germany. Hillings leads the curatorial team responsible for building a permanent collection and developing exhibitions for the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.nIn addition to her Guggenheim projects, Hillings has published and publicly lectured on curatorial practice and on various topics in post–World War II art in Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. She served on the jury for the Kandinsky Prize for Russian contemporary art in 2007, 2008, and 2009. She currently serves on the ZERO Foundation Scientific Board.nnTiziana Caianiello, PhD, is research associate at the ZERO foundation in Düsseldorf. She obtained her Master of Arts at the University of Naples in 1995. During the ensuing years, she specialized in theoretical problems of conservation of contemporary art (in particular kinetic art) at the Universities of Naples and Düsseldorf. She earned her PhD in art history from the University of Cologne in 2003. Her dissertation (published in 2005) analyzes the Lichtraum (Hommage à Fontana) (1964) by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker as well as the former disco Creamcheese under the aspect of their conservation and presentation in a museum context. She wrote various essays about different aspects of the ZERO movement. Together with a Research Group put together by the ZERO foundation, she prepares the publication The Artist as Curator: Collaborative Initiatives in the ZERO Movement; 1957-1967 forthcoming in 2015.nnJulia Robinson is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Department of Art History at New York University. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Grey Room, October, Artforum, Mousse, Performance Research, and Art Journal. She is the editor of the John Cage October Files (October/MIT Press, 2011). Her curatorial activities include: ±I96I: Founding the Expanded Arts (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2013), New Realisms (1957-63): Object Strategies Between Readymade & Spectacle (Reina Sofia, 2010), John Cage & Experimental Art: The Anarchy of Silence (Museu d'Art Contemporani [MACBA] Barcelona, 2009-10), and George Brecht Events: Eine Heterospektive (Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2005-6). She is currently at work on a book-length study on George Brecht, an the American artist associated with the Fluxus group.nnAn In-Depth Look at ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s is a DAAD-sponsored event.nnVideo recorded and edited by Laia Cabrera & Co. nhttp://laiacabrera.com/company Less
