life on
mars
55th Carnegie International
5.3.08-1.11.09
Featured Artists
- Doug Aitken
- Kai Althoff
- Mark Bradford
- Vija Celmins
- Phil Collins
- Bruce Conner
- Cao Fei
- Peter Fischli & David Weiss
- Ryan Gander
- Daniel Guzmán
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Richard Hughes
- Mike Kelley
- Friedrich Kunath
- Maria Lassnig
- Sharon Lockhart
- Mark Manders
- Barry McGee
- Mario Merz
- Marisa Merz
- Matthew Monahan
- Rivane Neuenschwander
- Manfred Pernice
- Susan Philipsz
- Noguchi Rika
- Wilhelm Sasnal
- Thomas Schütte
- Ranjani Shettar
- David Shrigley
- Paul Sietsema
- Rudolf Stingel
- Katja Strunz
- Paul Thek
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Andro Wekua
- Richard Wright
- Haegue Yang
Audio/Video Library
Artist's Lecture: Haegue Yang
Posted 10|13|08
Artist's Lecture: Ryan Gander
Posted 09|29|08
Remainder, a new process/performance by Attack Theatre: Phase one
Posted 09|23|08
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Attack Theatre: Remainder, Phase Two
Thurs., Jan. 8
Attack Theatre dancers return to Carnegie Museum of Art for Phase Two of Remainder, a 10-month process/performance inspired by Life on Mars.
Daily film screenings of Sharon Lockhart's Pine Flat in Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
2:00 p.m. daily
Additional screening Thursdays at 5:00 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Running time: 138 min.
schedule is subject to change
Artists
Daniel Guzmán
Born: 1964, Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and Works: Mexico City
Daniel Guzmán's work seems anguished and intimate, yet it is also bitterly ironic. As if regurgitating an adolescent impulse toward the grotesque, the macabre, and the obscene, the artist's drawings and phrases convey disillusionment, unspeakable urges, and dark frustrations. Skulls, commercial logos, Aztec symbols, cartoon creatures, swastikas, centerfolds, and fireballs populate his work, and he has frequently reflected on Mexican culture's condition of colonization and its customization of American icons. Guzmán's series La básqueda del ombligo (The search of the navel) (2005-2007) references a 1945 set of drawings titled La verdad (The truth) by the celebrated Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco. The large-scale black-and-white diptychs that make up Guzmán's series fuse mythical and historical sources with contemporary provocations, extending further his delirious and vertiginous graphic universe. Here, pre-Hispanic symbols, such as the moon, the pyramid, and the rabbit, join with caricatures of politicians, cosmic imagery, and rock music icons in a vomiting-up of hope and greed, good and evil, pleasure and violence.
Links: Daniel Guzmán at Biennale de Montréal 2002; Review of Daniel Guzmán exhibition at Kurimanzutto