5811 S. Ellis Avenue Bergman Gallery, Cobb Hall 418 Chicago, Illinois 60637
The work of three Romanian artists--Stefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu and Ciprian Muresan--is exhibited in a two-story architectural structure designed by studio BASAR specifically for that purpose. The project was originally presented at the Romanian Pavilion of the 2009 Venice Biennale. This exhibition was supported by the Graham Foundation
BiAXiOiDS at Extension Gallery
Mar 30, 2010
Extension Gallery for Architecture, located at Archeworks, presents BiAXiOiDS - an installation by Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY.
The installation, BiAXiOiDS, opens on Thursday, April 1st from 7 to 10pm and runs through July 2nd.
At 6pm, prior to the opening, Marc Fornes will lecture about his work.
Extension Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 5 pm and on Saturday from 12 to 5pm and is admission free.
New Silk Roads Lecture By Kyong Park
Mar 02, 2010
New Silk Roads (NSR) is a multi-faceted urban research project that explores the nascent urban conditions emerging in rapidly expanding and transforming Asian cities and regions. Through a nomadic practice, Kyong Park has conducted a series of sequenced expeditions through transitional regions and cities between Istanbul and Tokyo, documenting his encounters of the people and landscape through photography, video, and audio/video interviews of local and international experts. The project is an examination of territorial conditions that constructs the interconnected system of the contemporary Asian landscape. Approaching urban cities as an ecology of built systems, structures and institutions, NSR presents alternate understandings of urban research and theory through artistic practice. NSR was first presented at Kyong Park: The New Silk Roads, at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León in Spain (2009-10), and was undertaken with the support of the Graham Foundation, the Visual Arts Department, the Division of Humanities and Arts, Academic Senate Research Funds at University of California San Diego, and University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA).
Iannis Xenakis
"Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary" at the Drawing Center
Feb 07, 2010
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary will explore the fundamental role of drawing in the work of Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001). A leading figure in twentieth century music, Xenakis was trained as a civil engineer, then became an architect and developed revolutionary designs while working with Le Corbusier. Comprised of nearly 100 documents created between 1953 and 1984, this will be the first North American exhibition dedicated to Xenakis’s original works on paper. Included will be rarely-seen hand-rendered scores, architectural drawings, conceptual renderings, pre-compositional sketches, and graphic scores. Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary is co-curated by Xenakis scholar Sharon Kanach and critic Carey Lovelace and will travel to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (June 17 – October 17, 2010) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (November 7, 2010 – February 13, 2011).
Performance and Panel Discussion funded by the Graham
Jan 20, 2010
January 26, 2010
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Miller Theatre, Columbia University
Dance Performance + Panel Discussion at Miller Theatre No Fixed Points in Space: Transferring Form, Time, and Narrative between Architecture and Performance.
Performances by Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Repertory Understudy Group and Conversations with Trevor Carlson, Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation; Michelle Fornabai, Ambo Infra Design; Paul Kaiser, Open Ended Group; Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), artist; composer; writer; Tere O'Connor, Tere O'Connor Dance; and Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi Architects. Curated and moderated by Annie K. Kwon, Architect, Kwon Studio
For more information please email arts@columbia.edu Presented by Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation and Barnard College Dance Department. GSAPP and School of the Arts, Columbia University
"Minka," funded by the Graham, is Vimeo "Staff Pick"
Grantee Theaster Gates Selected to Present work in 2010 Whitney Biennial
Dec 16, 2009
Curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari announce the artist list for 2010, the Whitney Biennial. Grantee Theaster Gates; whose project, Temple, was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation earlier this year; was among the artists named.
Myto Chairs, 2008. Produced by Plank.
Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design Opens at the Art Institute this Week
Nov 17, 2009
Made possible through a grant from the Graham Foundation, Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design opens at the Art Institute of Chicago this Friday, Novemeber 20 and will be on view through January 24, 2010.
This significant exhibition is the first in America to explore the work produced by German designer Konstantin Grcic, one of the most important industrial designers working today. Grcic is known for his logical designs, driven by an honesty of materials and an appropriateness of production methods, yet injected with an inventiveness and originality that set his work apart. Although his production continues to be characterized by simple and distinctive design solutions, Grcic has more recently harnessed an interest in new technologies and materials research—a shift in practice that has afforded him a progressively ambitious portfolio of furniture and product designs that are transforming the landscape of contemporary design.
Pike Loop at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Oct 27, 2009
Installation Inauguration: October 27, 7pm
Location: Pike Street between Division Street and East Broadway (map) Digital Materiality exhibition at Storefront: On show until November 14
In September 2009, Storefront for Art and Architecture will inaugurate an exhibition of the work of Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler, Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich and, in conjunction with NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program, Storefront will present the first architecture project to be digitally fabricated on site, at 1:1 scale, in the US.
Developed through their research at ETH Zürich Faculty of Architecture, Gramazio & Kohler's work explores highly complex architectural artifacts, built by industrial robots typically used to assemble automobiles and perform other high-precision tasks. The accuracy, strength and speed of these robots allow them to fabricate architectural forms of unprecedented complexity and intricacy.
Gramazio & Kohler's work represents the cutting edge of innovation in the field of digital fabrication in architecture. For many years architects have relied on digital manufacturing processes such as CNC milling or 3D printing as a tool for formal research at model-scale. For the first time, Gramazio & Kohler’s work explores the potential of mobile digital fabrication techniques that can fabricate at 1:1 scale on site.
Grantee Jorge Otero-Pailos discusses his project, "The Ethics of Dust," at the Venice Biennale.
Oct 23, 2009
Peripheral Vision: A local reader inside and outside Chicago
Release of Graham Funded Publication, AREA #9 Peripheral Vision: A Local Reader Inside and Outside Chicago!
Oct 22, 2009
AREA Chicago, a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting and networking local social, political and cultural movements, will release AREA #9 Peripheral Vision: A Local Reader Inside and Outside Chicago.
The Graham Foundation is a proud supporter of this issue of AREA Chicago as well as their project Notes for a People's Atlas.
The release party will be held November 1, 2009 from 2pm - 5pm and will coincide with the closing party for The Demise of the South Side Community Art Center at the South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan Ave. (CTA: Indiana stop on the Green Line)
