Your smarter than me. i don't care.
Navel-gazing, a self-mocking focus on an artist's own life and practice, embracing identity politics, and a skeptical obsession with technology is the stuff of Your smarter than me. i don't care. The exhibition opens at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) October 2 and will be on view through January 3. Your smarter than me draws from WCMA's collection and highlights 18 of the 67 works of contemporary art from a recent gift by philanthropist Peter Norton. The title of the exhibition is taken from a 1994 Cary Leibowitz text-painting featured in the show.
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Cary Leibowitz was 31 years old when he made his diminutive painting, Your smarter than me. i don't care. He was in the early stages of crafting his artistic persona, Candy Ass, making humor-laden, self-deprecating, text-based works that poked fun at his own identity, fear of mediocrity, and the elitist art world. The painting invites you to enter into the uncomfortable place that artists often find themselves in when they create works of art that stem from their own life experiences and put them out into the world to be scrutinized.
CERAMIX
Art and Ceramics from Rodin to Schütte
October 16, 2015–January 31, 2016
Opening: October 15, 6–8pm
Bonnefantenmuseum
Avenue Ceramique 250
6221 BS Maastricht
The Netherlands
THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT With any deconstruction comes creation. Several months ago a moving truck arrived at Atelier Ted Noten and transported everything in the workspace of the Dutch artist based in Amsterdam to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. From the contents of his atelier, ranging from furniture to machines, sketches and prototypes, a tower was constructed. Noten sets himself free from strongly-held beliefs and behaviours by emptying his studio space. Lost for words he now spends time in his ‘Non Zone’ developing a new alphabet.On a daily base an update from his atelier is send and printed for display in the exhibition space of the museum.
COLOUR EXPLOSIONWe are living in a world full of boundaries, Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse is trying to take these boundaries away with her art. Colour is the main feature in her work and an element to push boundaries and the imagination. She explores the impact of colour on regular materials, surfaces and architecture. Grosse: “colour has the potential to make us think.”
Easily recognizable, Grosse’s trademark are bright, fresh colours sprayed onto physical surfaces including wood, walls, plants and piles of dirt, creating an imaginary world within an actual human space. Turning these everyday objects into bright coloured installations, Grosse is creating a new reality. (trendunion)
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