Daniel Buren, Charles James,
Antonio Lopez, Agnes Martin,
Joseph Cornell, Robert Smithson,
The Cockettes, Jack Smith,
Joan Jonas, Peter Hujar,
Alvin Baltrop, Gordon Matta-Clark,
Yvonne Rainer, Stefan Brecht,
Guy Hocquenghem, Esther Phillips,
Andy Warhol, Philip Smith,
Louise Lawler, Jack Goldstein,
Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo,
Cindy Sherman, J.J. Grandville,
Marcel Broodthaers,
David Wojnarowicz, Moyra Davey,
Sadie Benning, Donald Moffett,
Gran Fury, Silence=Death Project,
Gregg Bordowitz, Fierce Pussy,
Zoe Leonard & others
Pictures, Before and After -
An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
organized together with Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch
& Marc Siegel
opening reception on Thursday,
28 August, 7-9 pm
Pictures, Before and After -
An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
Ausstellung mit Arbeiten & Beiträgen von
Daniel Buren, Charles James, Antonio Lopez, Agnes Martin, Joseph Cornell,
Robert Smithson, The Cockettes, Jack Smith, Joan Jonas, Peter Hujar, Alvin Baltrop,
Gordon Matta-Clark, Yvonne Rainer, Stefan Brecht, Guy Hocquenghem, Esther Phillips,
Andy Warhol, Philip Smith, Louise Lawler, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo,
Cindy Sherman, J.J. Grandville, Marcel Broodthaers, David Wojnarowicz, Moyra Davey,
Sadie Benning, Donald Moffett, Gran Fury, Silence=Death Project, Gregg Bordowitz,
Fierce Pussy, Zoe Leonard
Organisiert zusammen mit Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch & Marc Siegel
28. August - 31. Oktober 2014
Eröffnung am Donnerstag, dem 28. August von 19-21 Uhr
Die Ausstellung Pictures, Before and After ist Teil einer Veranstaltungsreihe, die das Werk des Kunsthistorikers, Theoretikers, Kurators und Aktivisten Douglas Crimp würdigt, der in diesem August 70 Jahre alt wird. Ausgehend von Crimps Memoiren, die unter dem Titel Before Pictures 2015 erscheinen werden, sollen künstlerische, philosophische, queere und subkulturelle Praktiken von den 1960er Jahren bis in die Gegenwart rekonstruiert werden, zu deren Geschichte, Darstellung und Interpretation Crimp als Produzent, Aktivist, Zeuge und Beteiligter entscheidende Beiträge geliefert hat. Die Veranstalter - Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch, Marc Siegel und Galerie Buchholz, Daniel Buchholz und Christopher Müller in Zusammenarbeit mit Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V., Tanz im August - sind alle Fans, Freund_innen, Kolleg_innen oder Schüler_innen, die an einem oder mehreren Orten Crimps Wege gekreuzt haben.
Der in den 60er Jahren nach New York gekommene Douglas Crimp ist heute unbestritten einer der bekanntesten und einflussreichsten US-amerikanischen Intellektuellen der Gegenwart. Neben Tätigkeiten als Kurator (u.a. am Guggenheim), Kritiker (Art News) und Redakteur (October), hat er einige der zentralen Texte zu museologischen Fragen und der Theorie der Postmoderne (z.B. Über die Ruinen des Museums, 1996) verfasst. Er war eine der kritischsten und beharrlichsten Stimmen während der AIDS-Krise und hat wesentlich zur Entwicklung eines auf sie antwortenden Aktivismus innerhalb der Bildenden Kunst (z.B. AIDS Demo Graphics, 1990; Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, 2004) beigetragen, dessen Modelle auch in anderen politischen Konstellationen wirkmächtig wurden. Er zählt zu den Gründungsfiguren der geisteswissenschaftlichen Disziplin der Queer Studies (AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism, 1988; How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video, 1991); in letzter Zeit ist er insbesondere durch Aufsehen erregende Essays zum Tanz einerseits und zur New Yorker Underground-Kunst der 1960er Jahre andererseits hervorgetreten - vor allem zu Jack Smith, Mario Montez und Andy Warhol (z.B. Our Kind of Movie: The Films of Andy Warhol, 2012).
Douglas Crimp hat immer wieder auch als Kurator seine Argumente erhärten können. Am einflussreichsten war gewiss die Ausstellung Pictures (mit u.a. Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Philip Smith), die er 1977 für Artists Space in New York konzipierte und die man ohne Übertreibung als den Beginn eines sowohl künstlerischen als auch kunsttheoretischen Paradigmenwechsels bezeichnen kann. Der von ihm gemeinsam mit Lynne Cooke entwickelte historische Überblick Mixed Use Manhattan (Reina Sofia, 2010) widmet sich dem New York der 1970er Jahre, als das damals von der Rezession gezeichnete Lower Manhattan zur Bühne für die Entwicklung neuer subkultureller und künstlerischer Praktiken wurde, die sich den urbanen Raum auf ihre Weise aneigneten. Crimps Memoiren werden nun zum Ausgangspunkt für eine von Christopher Müller im Gespräch mit Douglas Crimp entwickelte Ausstellung, die Crimps Perspektive auf ein halbes Jahrhundert der wechselseitigen Einflüsse zwischen Kunst und Subkultur entfaltet. Die Ausstellung, Pictures, Before and After, wird am 28.08. in der Galerie Buchholz eröffnen. Wenige Tage zuvor, am 24.08., wird Crimp bereits im Rahmen des Berliner Festivals Tanz im August zu Gast sein und dort in einem Gespräch auf die Tänzerin und Choreographin Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker treffen. An den Tagen nach der Ausstellungseröffnung (29. und 30.08.) wird im Berliner Arsenal zu Ehren von Crimp außerdem ein internationales Symposium stattfinden, auf dem neben Crimp selbst auch weitere intellektuelle Wegbegleiter_innen wie Rosalyn Deutsche (New York), Jonathan Flatley (Detroit), Rachel Haidu (New York), Dirck Linck (Berlin) und Juan A. Suárez (Murcia) sprechen werden. Nach der Keynote von Crimp (29.08., 19.30 Uhr) wird überdies der Film Lives of Performers (Yvonne Rainer, USA 1972) gezeigt werden.
Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch, Marc Siegel
Pictures, Before and After -
An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
with works & contributions by
Daniel Buren, Charles James, Antonio Lopez, Agnes Martin, Joseph Cornell,
Robert Smithson, The Cockettes, Jack Smith, Joan Jonas, Peter Hujar, Alvin Baltrop,
Gordon Matta-Clark, Yvonne Rainer, Stefan Brecht, Guy Hocquenghem, Esther Phillips,
Andy Warhol, Philip Smith, Louise Lawler, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo,
Cindy Sherman, J.J. Grandville, Marcel Broodthaers, David Wojnarowicz, Moyra Davey,
Sadie Benning, Donald Moffett, Gran Fury, Silence=Death Project, Gregg Bordowitz,
Fierce Pussy, Zoe Leonard
organized together with Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch & Marc Siegel
28 August - 31 October 2014
opening reception on Thursday, 28 August, 7-9 pm
Pictures, Before and After is one of a series of events honoring the work of art historian, theorist, curator and activist Douglas Crimp who turns 70 this month. Departing from Crimp’s Memoirs which will be published as Before Pictures in 2015, these events consider artistic, philosophical, queer and subcultural practices from the 1960s to the present. Whether as activist, editor, author, or participant, Crimp has played a key role in the construction, representation and interpretation of this history. The organizers, Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel, together with Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller of Galerie Buchholz, the Arsenal Institut for Film und Video Art, and Tanz im August are all fans, friends, colleagues or students who have crossed paths with Crimp numerous times over the years.
Douglas Crimp, who arrived in New York at the end of the 1960s and worked initially at the Guggenheim Museum and as an assistant to legendary fashion designer Charles James, is undoubtedly one of the influential American intellectuals of our day. Alongside his occassional but significant curatorial projects, and his work as critic (Art News, Art Forum) and editor (October), Crimp has written some of the central texts on museological questions and theories of postmodernism (e.g. On the Museum’s Ruins, 1993). He was one of the most critical and persistent voices during the AIDS crisis and arguably the one whose theoretical insights most shaped the development of activist and artistic practices, even beyond the confines of queer and AIDS politics (e.g. AIDS Demo Graphics, 1990; Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, 2004). Moreover, Crimp’s writing on AIDS cultural practices directly influenced the development of the scholarly field of queer studies (AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism, 1988; How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video, 1991). More recently, he has continued to attract international attention through his lectures and essays on contemporary dance and on the artistic practices that emerged in the New York Underground scene of the 1960s, mainly the work of Jack Smith, Ronald Tavel and Andy Warhol (e.g. ‘Our Kind of Movie’: The Films of Andy Warhol, 2012)
Throughout his career, Crimp continuously corroborated his critical and theoretical insights with curatorial work. The 1977 exhibition Pictures (with, among others, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Philip Smith), which he curated for Artist’s Space in New York City, is the most influential in this respect in that it instituted a paradigm shift in artistic production and theorization. The historical overview that Crimp developed with curator Lynne Cooke in their co-curated exhibition Mixed Use Manhattan (Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2010) dedicated itself to New York City in the 1970s, the space of Lower Manhattan that was transformed by a recession into a stage for the development of new artistic practices.
Crimps Memoirs serve as the departure point for an exhibition that Christopher Müller organized -in close collaboration with Crimp himself- and that unfolds Crimp’s perspective on a half century of mutual exchange and tension between artistic and subcultural practices. The exhibition, Pictures, Before and After, opens on August 28 at Galerie Buchholz in Berlin and will run through October 31, 2014. On August 24, a few days before the opening, Crimp will be a guest of the dance festival Tanz im August, where he will hold a public discussion with Belgian dancer and choreographer Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker. On the two days following the exhibition opening, August 29 & 30, there will be an international symposium in Crimp’s honor at the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art. Alongside Crimp, who will deliver as a keynote the final chapter of his upcoming Memoirs, there will be lectures by Rosalyn Deutsche (New York), Jonathan Flatley (Detroit), Rachel Haidu (New York), Dirck Linck (Berlin) and Juan A. Suárez (Murcia), as well as the three event organizers. Following Crimp’s keynote, there will be a screening of Lives of Performers (Yvonne Rainer, USA 1972).
Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch, Marc Siegel
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Photograph from the opening reception of the exhibition Mastercraftsmen of Ancient Peru, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1968
Charles James
Photographs of the interior of the DeMenil House in Houston Texas
Architect: Philip Johnson
Interior design: Charles James
The Genius of Charles James
Exh. cat. Brooklyn Museum, New York 1982
cardboard, 30,5 x 35 cm, 178 p. with illustrations in black and white
Daniel Buren
Contribution to exh. cat. The Guggenheim International Exhibition, 1971
fold-out, 27,7 x 64,3 cm
Installation views of Daniel Buren’s work for The Guggenheim International Exhibition (before the opening), Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1971
c-prints
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Daniel Buren
“TII-338”, 1966
white acrylic paint on black and white striped textile, alternating and vertical with a width of 8,7 cm
116 x 132,5 cm
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Agnes Martin
Data, no. 10, 1973
Douglas Crimp
“Agnes Martin: numero, misura, rapport” (pp. 83-85)
exh. cat. New York, Dia Art Foundation; Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly and Barbara Schröder (ed.),
New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2011
2 texts:
Douglas Crimp: “Back to the Turmoil” (pp. 58-77)
Zoe Leonard: “A Wild Patience” (pp. 78-101)
Agnes Martin
10 color lithographs
29,8 x 29,8 cm each
from:
“Paintings and Drawings. Schilderijen en Tekeningen. Gemälde und Zeichnungen. Peintures et Dessins”
exh. cat. Amsterdam, Wiesbaden, Münster, Paris 1991
Hans Namuth
Photograph of Coenties Slip artists on rooftop (Agnes Martin, Delphine Seyrig, Jack Youngerman, Duncan Youngerman, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana), New York 1957
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Joseph Cornell
Artforum International, June
New York 1973
Anette Michelson:
“Rose Hobart and Monsieur Phot: Early Films from Utopia Parkway” (pp. 47-57)
Project for a Moroccan cookbook by Douglas Crimp and Christian Belaygue
Original folder with manuscript,
cover letter from literary agent dated 5 June 1973, table of contents
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Ellsworth Kelly
Derrière le Miroir
Ellsworth Kelly par Dale McConathy
Editeur Maeght, Paris 1964
5 original lithographs, cloth bound, 38,5 x 29 cm, unpaginated, signed by Kelly
Peter Hujar
“Nassau Street, 1976”
vintage gelatin silver print
titled and dated verso in pencil
37,5 x 37,5 cm
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Alvin Baltrop
“Pier 52 (Gordon Matta-Clark’s ‘Day’s End’ building cuts with nude man)”, 1975-1986
silver gelatin print
16 x 10 cm
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Jack Goldstein
Set of Ten Films
1. The Portrait of Pere Tanguy 1974, 16mm, color, 4’
2. White Dove 1975, 16mm, color, 20’’
3. The Knife 1975, 16mm, color, silent, 4’
4. Shane 1975, 16mm, color, sound, 3’
5. A Ballet Shoe 1975, 16mm, color, silent, 19’’
6. The Chair 1975, 16mm, color, silent, 5’
7. Some Butterflies 1975, 16mm, color, silent, 30’’
8. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1975, 16mm, color, sound, 2’
9. Bone China 1976, 16mm, color, sound, 2’ 30’’
10. The Jump 1978, 16mm, color, silent, 26’’
DVD
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Eliott Erwitt
Arnold Schwarzenegger during the performance series Articulate Muscle: The Male Body in Art at the Whitney Museum, New York City, 25 February 1976
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Sadie Benning
“Transitional Effect, Flat Black and Pink (for Douglas)”, 2012
rust-oleum flat black and rust-oleum painters touch flat sweet pea, medite 2, spray paint, dowls and plaster
30,5 x 30,5 cm
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Louise Lawler
set of original photographs and captions
for:
Douglas Crimp
On the Museum’s Ruins, 1993
MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1993
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Gran Fury
“You’ve got Blood on your Hands, Stephen Joseph. - The Cut in AIDS Numbers is a Lethal Lie.”, 1988
poster
36 x 21,5 cm
Gregg Bordowitz
“Drive. The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning. Drugs Into Bodies”, 2002
two-sided poster for an art exhibition
60,4 x 45,6 cm
Gregg Bordowitz
“Drive. The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning. Drugs Into Bodies”, 2002
two-sided poster for an art exhibition
60,4 x 45,6 cm
verso
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Louise Lawler
“Invites you to attend Swan Lake performed by The New York City Ballet at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center - Thursday January 22nd, 1981, 8pm”
letterpress on cardstock
8,5 x 13,8 cm
Craig Owens
Beyond Recognition. Representation, Power, and Culture
University of California Press, Berkeley 1992
Soft cover, 23 x 15 cm, 386 p.
Edited by Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock, Image Cover by Barbara Kruger
October Nr. 5, Photography, A Special Issue
MIT Press, Summer 1978
Douglas Crimp:
“Positive/Negative: A Note on Dega´s Photographs” ( pp. 89)
127 pp., soft cover, 23 x 18 cm
George Balanchine
“Agon”, 1960
New York City Ballet in Montreal
Telecast of March 10, 1960
16mm film, 23 min., b/w, sound
DVD
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014
Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2014