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NY | Walk-through of Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates with Emma Enderby

Name: NY | Walk-through of Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates with Emma Enderby
Start: 2019-11-20T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-11-20T18:00:00-05:00
Location: The Shed

November 20, 2019 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Image: Installation view: Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, The Shed, New York, October 9, 2019 – March 22, 2020. Photo: Dan Bradica.

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Join ArtTable NY for a curator led walk through of Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates at The Shed with Emma Enderby, senior curator at The Shed.

Agnes Denes rose to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a leading figure in conceptual, environmental, and ecological art. A pioneer of several art movements, she creates work in a broad range of mediums, utilizing various disciplines—science, philosophy, linguistics, ecology, psychology—to analyze, document, and ultimately aid humanity. Denes turns her analysis into beautiful, sensual visual forms, poetry, and a philosophy that she has developed over the course of her career.

This comprehensive survey exhibition, Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, brings together over 150 works spanning her 50-year career. The exhibition includes a comprehensive look at her important series the “Philosophical Drawings” (1969 – 80), “Map Projections” (1973 – 79), and “Pyramid Series” (1970 –); her realized monumental public works, including the iconic Wheatfield—A Confrontation (1982); as well as a presentation of unrealized works. The Shed has also commissioned a number of works that both expound and expand on the ideas that have been ever present throughout Denes’s career. Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

Emma Enderby is the senior curator at The Shed, NYC, where she has organized the retrospective exhibitions Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, as well as Collision/Coalition featuring Tony Cokes, Oscar Murillo, Vanessa Bergonzoli and Yanina Valdivieso), Open Call (52 emerging artists), and Trisha Donnelly. As adjunct curator at Public Art Fund, Enderby curated Tauba Auerbach: Flow Separation (2018); as associate curator solo presentations Katja Novitskova: EARTH POTENTIAL (2017), Spencer Finch: Lost Man Creek (2016–18), and David Shrigley: MEMORIAL (2016–17), along with group exhibitions Commercial Break (2017) and The Language of Things (2016). Previously, as exhibitions curator at the Serpentine Galleries, London, she organized exhibitions including Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen (2016), Rachel Rose: Palisades (2015), Leon Golub: Bite Your Tongue (2015), Trisha Donnelly (2014), and Haim Steinbach: once again the world is flat (2014) and assisted on Adrián Villa Rojas: Today We Reboot the Planet (2013). She was also co-project curator for the Serpentine’s Pavilion commissions of selgascano (2015) and Smiljan Radić (2014). Previously, she worked at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Agnes Denes The Ghost of Nautlus

This work, printed for ArtTable, re-imagines one of Denes’ most iconic forms, a snail shaped nautilus spiraling delicately through space, as an ode to The Nautilus, a destroyed amphitheater designed by Denes. Proceeds from the sale of this work support ArtTable and its mission to support inclusion in the art world. For more information, see here.

Thank you to Emma Enderby and Leslie Tonkonow.

Details

Date:: November 20, 2019
Time:: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Event Category:: New York
Event Tags:: NA

Organizer

: ArtTable New York
Phone: 212 343 1735 Ext. 13
Email: programs@arttable.org

Venue

: The Shed
: 545 West 30th Street
New York, NY 10001 United States + Google Map

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