Damián Ortega at PS1 Contemporary Art Center | New York
Damián Ortega at PS1 Contemporary Art Center | New York
Damián Ortega at PS1 Contemporary Art Center | New York
06-22-08

That Was Then...This Is Now

PS1 Contemporary Art Center, MoMA, New York

group show
june 22 - september 29, 2008


P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents That Was Then… This Is Now, an exhibition featuring spectacular pieces including Leo Villareal’s new LED Flag installed in the P.S.1 elevator; Apolitico, an expansive outdoor flag installation by Wilfredo Prieto; Cannone Semovente, a monumental sculpture by the late Italian artist Pino Pascali; and Lawrence Weiner’s Milk and Honey, which evokes a sensuous and ephemeral dream. This group exhibition is inspired by the artistic and socio-political climate of the late 1960s, and features artists united by the desire to mobilize art as a means of change. Divided into three iconographic themes—Flags, Weapons, and Dreams—That Was Then…This Is Now places these representations as central to artists’ collective aspiration towards progress.


participate: Archigram, Fiona Banner, Jeremy Blake, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, Paul Chan, Jen DeNike, Emory Douglas, Tyler Drosdeck, Todd Eberle, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Mitch Epstein, John Fekner, Jason Fox, Andrea Fraser, Joy Garnett, Leon Golub, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Gregory Green, Hans Haacke, David Hammons, Marc Handelman, Peter Hendrick, Jonathan Horowitz, Alfredo Jaar, Jasper Johns, Scott King, Barbara Kruger, Michael Lazarus, An-My Lê, Robert Longo, Lovett/Codagnone, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edgar Martins, Adam McEwen, Josephine Meckseper, Jonas Mekas, Peter Moore, Carrie Moyer, Steve Mumford, My Barbarian, Richard Nonas, Marcel Odenbach, Dennis Oppenheim, Damián Ortega, Pino Pascali, Wilfredo Prieto, Primary Information, Yvonne Rainer, David Ratcliff, Ry Rocklen, Thomas Ruff, Dread Scott, Sister Corita Kent, Nancy Spero, Superstudio, Spencer Sweeney, VALIE EXPORT, Leo Villareal, Banks Violette, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Winterfilm Collective
Damián Ortega, Controller of the Universe, 2007


article published in New York Times by Ken Johnson, july 25

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