The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary
Loaded with double and even triple entendres, the title literally says it all. A Slight Gestuary seeks to function as a kind of reliquary of slight gestures, which is also in and of itself, inevitably slight (mindful of the mathematical impossibility of any kind of exhaustive or encyclopedic presentation of the “slight gesture,” the exhibition can but adumbrate the vast multitudes to which the title alludes). In other words, the theme of the exhibition is: small gestures, big impact. These gestures could be either quite humble, in so far as the physical art work they produce is characterized by a marked material economy, or they could be slight in so far as the gesture, also slight and local, accrues a historical significance which ultimately wields a much larger, and even international impact.Perhaps no historical artist better embodies, or better yet, defines these parameters than the Czech artist, Jiří Kovanda. His actions from the ’70s are a case in point. Enacted for the camera or a very small audience in the streets of Prague, Kovanda carried out a series of works, which ranged from hiding from passersby, to turning around on an escalator and staring at people, to executing a series of choreographed gestures which were indistinguishable from everyday gestures. Since being popularized in the west, these minor works of poetic protest have accumulated a broad international appreciation, while also retrospectively nuancing the oppressive context from which they issue. For all their initial simplicity, they are incredibly complex pieces whose depth and complexity have only deepened, matured, ramifying outward, over time.
A Slight Gestuary pairs living, established and emerging artists with historical artists and instances. Given the size of Lulu (9 square meters) and the ambition of the exhibition to be comprehensive, rather than exhaustive, it will necessarily take place in three successive installations. Each iteration in the space will be accompanied by the online publication of a historical archive, featuring work which consists of documentation (of the original gesture), as opposed to the work itself.
Thus, contrary to the expansionism that currently dominates almost every aspect of contemporary art, A Slight Gestuary proposes a radical modesty, examining its many implications and celebrating its overall economy.
The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary
February 7 – May 17, 2015
Curated by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp
Dates:
Part 1: February 7 – March 8
Zarouhie Abdalian, Fernanda Gomes, Jiří Kovanda, Jenine Marsh, Gabriel Orozco, Chantal Peñalosa, Tania Pérez Córdova, Goran Trbuljak, Karin Sander
Part 2: March 14 – April 14
Paola de Anda, Francis Alÿs, Darren Bader, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Jiří Kovanda, Kirsten Pieroth, Wilfredo Prieto, Martín Soto Climent, B. Wurtz
Draft Score For An Exhibition (2010) by Pierre Bal-Blanc will be presented throughout the day of the opening at 2, 3, 4 and 5 pm.
Part 3: April 18 – May 17
Robert Barry, Isaac Contreras, Simon Gabriel Greenberg, Matt Hinkley, Roman Ondak, Yoko Ono, Goran Petercol, Ana Roldán, Ana Santos, Lin Yilin
Archive:
Billy Apple, Graciela Carnevale, Ulises Carrión, Lygia Clark, Eduardo Costa, Christopher D’Arcangelo, Marcel Duchamp, Koji Enokura, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Greco, Hi Red Center, Tehching Hsieh, Stephen Kaltenbach, Yves Klein, Jiří Kovanda, Lee Lozano, Cildo Meireles, Lotty Rosenfeld, Seth Siegelaub (Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Lawrence Weiner) Mladen Stilinovic, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, La Monte Young.
The archive may be consulted during the period of the exhibition at http://aslightgestuary.tumblr.com
The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary is curated by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp.
A performance program, curated by Sophie Goltz, will run throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Artists: Mariechen Danz, Christian Falsnaes, Adam Linder, Johannes Paul Raether, Susanne M. Winterling.
Additionally, a catalog, featuring textual contributions by Sophie Goltz, Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp, will be published and internationally distributed by Mousse publishing.
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Lulu is an independent, Mexico City-based project space founded and run by the artist Martin Soto Climent and the independent curator Chris
Sharp.
February 7 – May 17, 2015 Curated by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp
Part 3, April 18 - May 14:
Robert
Barry, Isaac Contreras, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Simon Gabriel Greenberg,
Matt Hinkley, Roman Ondak, Yoko Ono, Goran Petercol, Ana Roldán, Ana
Santos, Lin Yilin
Lulu
Bajio 231, the red door (corner of Manzanillo).
Colonia Roma
06760 DFMexico
Bajio 231, the red door (corner of Manzanillo).
Colonia Roma
06760 DFMexico
The performance Some Cleaning, by Adam Linder, will take place at 2, 3, 4, and 5pm, the day of the opening.
Ana Santos
Yoko Ono
Roman Ondak
Isaac Contreras
Simon Gabriel Greenberg
Matt Hinkley
Matt Hinkley
left Ana Roldan
Ana Roldan detail
Goran Petercol
Goran Petercol
Lin Yilin
Lin Yilin
Robert Barry
Lulu is proud to present The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary.
Loaded with double and even triple entendres, the title literally says it all. A Slight Gestuary seeks to function as a kind of reliquary of slight gestures, which is also in and of itself, inevitably slight (mindful of the mathematical impossibility of any kind of exhaustive or encyclopedic presentation of the “slight gesture,” the exhibition can but adumbrate the vast multitudes to which the title alludes). In other words, the theme of the exhibition is: small gestures, big impact. These gestures could be either quite humble, in so far as the physical art work they produce is characterized by a marked material economy, or they could be slight in so far as the gesture, also slight and local, accrues a historical significance which ultimately wields a much larger, and even international impact.Perhaps no historical artist better embodies, or better yet, defines these parameters than the Czech artist, Jiří Kovanda. His actions from the ’70s are a case in point. Enacted for the camera or a very small audience in the streets of Prague, Kovanda carried out a series of works, which ranged from hiding from passersby, to turning around on an escalator and staring at people, to executing a series of choreographed gestures which were indistinguishable from everyday gestures. Since being popularized in the west, these minor works of poetic protest have accumulated a broad international appreciation, while also retrospectively nuancing the oppressive context from which they issue. For all their initial simplicity, they are incredibly complex pieces whose depth and complexity have only deepened, matured, ramifying outward, over time.
A Slight Gestuary pairs living, established and emerging artists with historical artists and instances. Given the size of Lulu (9 square meters) and the ambition of the exhibition to be comprehensive, rather than exhaustive, it will necessarily take place in three successive installations. Each iteration in the space will be accompanied by the online publication of a historical archive, featuring work which consists of documentation (of the original gesture), as opposed to the work itself.
Thus, contrary to the expansionism that currently dominates almost every aspect of contemporary art, A Slight Gestuary proposes a radical modesty, examining its many implications and celebrating its overall economy.
The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary
February 7 – May 17, 2015
Curated by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp
Dates:
Part 1: February 7 – March 8
Zarouhie Abdalian, Fernanda Gomes, Jiří Kovanda, Jenine Marsh, Gabriel Orozco, Chantal Peñalosa, Tania Pérez Córdova, Goran Trbuljak, Karin Sander
Part 2: March 14 – April 14
Paola de Anda, Francis Alÿs, Darren Bader, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Jiří Kovanda, Kirsten Pieroth, Wilfredo Prieto, Martín Soto Climent, B. Wurtz
Draft Score For An Exhibition (2010) by Pierre Bal-Blanc will be presented throughout the day of the opening at 2, 3, 4 and 5 pm.
Part 3: April 18 – May 17
Robert Barry, Isaac Contreras, Simon Gabriel Greenberg, Matt Hinkley, Roman Ondak, Yoko Ono, Goran Petercol, Ana Roldán, Ana Santos, Lin Yilin
Archive:
Billy Apple, Graciela Carnevale, Ulises Carrión, Lygia Clark, Eduardo Costa, Christopher D’Arcangelo, Marcel Duchamp, Koji Enokura, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Greco, Hi Red Center, Tehching Hsieh, Stephen Kaltenbach, Yves Klein, Jiří Kovanda, Lee Lozano, Cildo Meireles, Lotty Rosenfeld, Seth Siegelaub (Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Lawrence Weiner) Mladen Stilinovic, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, La Monte Young.
The archive may be consulted during the period of the exhibition at http://aslightgestuary.tumblr.com
The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary is curated by Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp.
A performance program, curated by Sophie Goltz, will run throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Artists: Mariechen Danz, Christian Falsnaes, Adam Linder, Johannes Paul Raether, Susanne M. Winterling.
Additionally, a catalog, featuring textual contributions by Sophie Goltz, Fabiola Iza and Chris Sharp, will be published and internationally distributed by Mousse publishing.
***
Lulu is an independent, Mexico City-based project space founded and run by the artist Martin Soto Climent and the independent curator Chris
Sharp.