Artists Space

Four Shows thru May 12 2007 Opening Reception: Thursday March 30, 6-8pm

MAIN SPACE:
KIOSK (XIX) – Modes of Multiplication
Kiosk is a traveling archive of independent publication projects on contemporary art which is continually growing and changing and which currently comprises approximately 360 publishers, periodicals, zines, video and audio projects –– altogether around 5,300 publications.
Curated by Christoph Keller

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PROJECT SPACE: REALLIFE 1979-1990
Curated by Kate Fowle

REALLIFE Magazine: 1979-1990
When Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan started REALLIFE Magazine in 1979, they wanted to make a publication that would be "by and about artists." The magazine’s first issue was made possible by an NEA grant in art criticism, awarded to Lawson through Artists Space. During the 1980s, REALLIFE Magazine attentively addressed current art and its influences while continuously speculating about culture and questioning politics.
Curated by Kate Fowle, REALLIFE Magazine: 1979-1990 looks at the decade through the lens of this publication and its extraordinary roster of contributors—including Richard Baim, Eric Bogosian, Glen Branca, Critical Art Ensemble, Jamie Davidovich, Jessica Diamond, Mark Dion + Jason Simon, Jack Goldstein, Kim Gordon, Group Material, David Hammons, Michael Hurson, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Sol Lewitt, Robert Longo, Ken Lum, Allan McCollum, Paul McMahon, Matt Mullican, Adrian Piper, Richard Prince, David Robbins, John Roberts, Cindy Sherman, Michael Smith and James Welling.

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PROJECT SPACE: Hunter Reynolds Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress: 1993 to 2007
Curated by Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz and Christian Rattemeyer

Hunter Reynolds is a visual artist and AIDS activist. He was a an early member of ACT UP, and in 1989 co-founded Art Positive, an affinity group of ACT-UP to fight homophobia and censorship in the arts. For over twenty years, Reynolds has been using photography, performances, and installations to express his experience as an HIV-positive gay man living in the age of AIDS. Reynolds’ works address issues of gender identity, political, social, and sexual histories, mourning and loss, survival, hope and healing.
For his project space at Artists Space, Reynolds presents Patina du Prey’s Memorial Dress, a black ball gown onto which the names of thousands of AIDS victims are printed in gold. The dress stands on a stage rotating to music composed by Edmund Campion, while viewers are invited to write comments and the names of lost friends and loved ones into a memorial book.
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CAMPARI PROJECT SPACE:

Richard Massey Caution: Five hungry Soviet cows are in the garden
Curated by Christian Rattemeyer

For many years, Miami-based graphic designer Richard Massey has been researching the re-use of Modernism’s most iconic expressions for design applications. One notable example is his design for Cabinet Magazine’s logo, which is derived from the fragmented elements and ligatures of an early 20th century stencil often used in Le Corbusier’s architectural drawings and manifestoes.
In his new project at Artists Space—Caution: Five hungry Soviet cows are in the garden—Massey explores ideologies of neutrality in modernist type design.