City and Country School – Spring Benefit 2010
Auction Ends: May 7, 2010 07:00 PM EDT

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Guggenheim Museum: 2 Visits and Catalogue

Item Number
3011
Estimated Value
172 USD
Sold
39 USD to nikfisch
Number of Bids
4  -  Bid History

Item Description

2 Visits to the Guggenheim Museum Plus a Catalogue 

Two passes (good for two admissions each) and a hard-cover catalogue for Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on view until September 6, 2010.

Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrecuperable past. Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance examines myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession, both collective and individual, with accessing the past.

The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations. Drawn primarily from the Guggenheim Museum collection, Haunted will feature recent acquisitions, many of which will be exhibited by the museum for the first time. Included in the show will be work by such artists as Marina Abramovi, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Zoe Leonard, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol. A significant part of the exhibition will be dedicated to work created since 2001 by younger artists. This exhibition is curated by Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator.

www.guggenheim.org

Item Special Note

***C&C Community Members Only***

On view until September 6, 2010

Donated By:

The Solomon R. Guggenhim Museum