DENNIS OPPENHEIM LECTURE & BOOK LAUNCH - NEW YORK

Dennis Oppenheim: Public Projects
Lecture and Book Launch @ Storefront for Art and Architecture
Tuesday, September 22nd at 7 pm

Light Chamber, 2008-2010.

Project for the Denver Justice Center Public Projects, published by Charta, includes a conversation between Dennis Oppenheim, Vito Acconci, Liam Gillick and Aaron Betsky; texts by Aaron Levy, Director of the Slought Foundation, Director of the Marta Museum in Herford, Germany, Roland Nachtigaller and curator of the recent exhibition, Electric Kisses, Friederike Fast. Following the talk the artist will answer questions and encourage discussion.

Over a hundred and fifty projects and proposal photographs, drawings, models and renderings are included in Public Projects, which also documents the museum show. It is available through Distributed Arts Publishers, with complementary signed copies available at the launch.

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JOURNEY HOME - GRAND RAPIDS

A large group gathered outside the Rapid Transit system's Central Station in Grand Rapids, Michigan last Friday July 17th for the public dedication of Dennis Oppenheim's recently installed sculpture Journey Home. The artist spoke to the group briefly describing the work.

He said, Journey Home is a spiraling 24-foot high circular form of rolled steel tubing clad with perforated metal, colored acrylic and slotted sandblasted Lexan. The form originates as a point in space, which journeys in a spiral configuration to the shape of a house.

The work was commissioned by the Interurban Transit Partnership and constructed by La Paloma Fine Art, an art fabrication company based in Sun Valley, California.

Dennis Oppenheim is one of the leading artists in the field of sculpture with a career spanning over forty years. He has concentrated on public art since the 1980s. Other public projects to be completed in 2009 are Garden of Evidence for Scottsdale, Arizona; Arriving Home for Chicago; Still Dancing for Toronto; Pathways to Everywhere for Calgary; Radiant Fountain for Houston; and Paintbrush Gateway for Las Vegas.

A book on Oppenheim's recent projects titled: Public Projects was just published by Charta, Milan. Included are essays by artists Vito Acconci and Liam Gillick and scholars, Aaron Betsky and Aaron Levy. It is available from Distributed Art Publishers.

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PROPOSALS FOR LARGE-SCALE PROJECTS

Opening Reception of Dennis Oppenheim- Burning Contract, Splash Building Swarm, Spiral Metamorphosis : An Exhibition of Proposals for Large-Scale Public Projects

If you miss the opening the show will be on display until June 27.

Date :	4 juin 2009
Heure :	18:00 - 21:00
Lieu :	Janos Gat Gallery
Adresse :	195 Bowery
Ville :	New York, NY
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DENNIS OPPENHEIM - NEW YORK

Dennis Oppenheim

Burning Contract, Splash Building
Swarm, Spiral Metamorphosis

June 4 – June 27, 2009

at the Janos Gat Gallery

195 Bowery (at Spring Street)


An exhibition of proposals for large-scale public projects by Dennis Oppenheim, the pioneering Land and Body artist. In addition to recently secured commissions in the U.S., Canada, China, and Europe, the exhibition will include Burning Contract, a large model depicting a sixty story building the idea of which is based on a rolled swirl of paperset on fire.

One featured work, titled Splash Building, depicts a giant water drop crashing into liquid, and bursting upward into a splayed cylinder, which forms the exterior structure of a forty-story building. Oppenheim refers to this piece as an “event sculpture,” having developed its form from the results of a dynamic action. The same applies to Swarm, a vortex caused by the flight path of hundreds of birds, resulting in the perfect lineal form of a six foot diameter cup and saucer, which will hang in the gallery. In another hanging work, the aptly named Spiral Metamorphosis, various imagesboats, cars and airplanes morph into their opposites sunglasses, hats, etc. over a progression of states within a spiral concourse.

Some of the projects represented in this exhibition come from a concurrent museum exhibition of Oppenheim’s work at MARTa Museum, Hereford, Germany, mounted by Jan Hoet, Director of Documenta, 1992. The exhibition at the Janos Gat Gallery will present, for the first time in the United States, the new monograph on Oppenheim’s public art projects. The 300 page book, published by Charta, Milan, includes text by Friederike Fast (Jan Hoet's Assistant at the MARTa Museum), and a conversation between Vito Acconci, Liam Gillick, Aaron Betsky, and Dennis Oppenheim.

Opening reception: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 6 – 9 PM

For more information please contact the gallery at 212 677 35 25
or dennisoppenheim@earthlink.net