Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania… Carnegie Museum of Art has published a fully illustrated catalogue to accompany Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International which opens May 3, 2008 at the museum.
Life on Mars, the 55th installation of the Carnegie International, explores the continually perplexing, increasingly relevant question of what it means to be human in the world today. Each of the exhibition’s 40 artists brings a unique perspective to the question of humanity’s response to a world in which global events challenge our everyday existence. The catalogue, which shares the title of the exhibition, features an essay on the exhibition’s theme by Douglas Fogle, Carnegie Museum of Art’s curator of contemporary art and organizer of the 2008 Carnegie International. Also included are essays by International advisory committee members Daniel Birnbaum, director of Städelschule Art Academy and Portikus Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Richard Flood, chief curator of the New Museum, New York; New Museum Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs Eungie Joo; and Chus Martinez, director of Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The catalogue combines entries by Carnegie Museum of Art Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art Heather Pesanti and independent curator and writer Max Andrews about each of the Carnegie International artists, with images of their artwork. In addition, the catalogue is the first in the history of the Carnegie International exhibition to incorporate writings by artists in the exhibition, and it includes writings by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Ryan Gander, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mark Manders, Mario Merz, Matthew Monahan, Rivane Neuenschwander, Thomas Schütte, Paul Sietsema, Paul Thek, Andro Wekua, and Haegue Yang.

The 440-page book includes 168 full-color illustrations. Life on Mars is available in hardcover at the Carnegie Museum of Art store and online for $39.95.  For more information, call 412.622.3216 or visit www.cmoa.org.

Carnegie International
The Carnegie International was first organized at the behest of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1896. Carnegie established the International to educate and inspire the public as well as to promote international understanding and peace. He intended the International to provide a periodic sample of contemporary art from which Carnegie Museum of Art could enrich its permanent collection.  The work of thousands of artists has been exhibited in the Carnegie International, including that of Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, Rene Magritte, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, and William Kentridge.
  
Support
Major support for the 2008 Carnegie International has been provided by the A.W. Mellon Charitable and Educational Fund, Friends of the Carnegie International, The Henry L. Hillman Fund, The Fine Foundation, and the Jill and Peter Kraus Endowment for Contemporary Art. Major gifts have also been provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bayer Corporation, the Henry L. Hillman Foundation, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Kraus Family Foundation, the Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece, The Fellows of Carnegie Museum of Art, The Pittsburgh Foundation, and the Woodmere Foundation. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by Heika Burnison, The Broad Art Foundation, the William Talbott Hillman Endowment for Photography, the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, William I. and Patricia S. Snyder, the Alexander C. & Tillie S. Speyer Foundation, the Buncher Family Foundation, Sibyl Fine King, Wendy Mackenzie and Alexander Cortesi, the National Endowment for the Arts, Kathy and Richard Fuld, Jr., the Morby Family Charitable Foundation, Erica and Eric Schwartz, The Associates of Carnegie Museum of Art, the Beal Publication Fund, the Dedalus Foundation, the Dobkin Family Foundation, The Grable Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the LLWW Foundation, the James H. and Idamae B. Rich Exhibition Fund, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Carnegie Museum of Art
Located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh and founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museum of Art, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the sixteenth century to the present.  The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural drawings and models.  For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412.622.3131 or visit our web site at www.cmoa.org.