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The Evolution of Ordinary Things exhibit opens AT THE HIRSHHORN museum in August 2010. The exhibit will highlight the histor y of ordinar y things, from paper clips to neckties. Work by prominent artists from around the country will be featured in the lower level gallery.
The Evolution of Ordinary Things exhibit opens AT THE HIRSHHORN museum in August 2010. The exhibit will highlight the histor y of ordinar y things, from paper clips to neckties. Work by prominent artists from around the country will be featured in the lower level gallery.
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The Evolution of Ordinary Things exhibit opens AT THE HIRSHHORN museum in August 2010. The exhibit will highlight the histor y of ordinar y things, from paper clips to neckties. Work by prominent artists from around the country will be featured in the lower level gallery.
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Washington DC 202-633-1000 VISIT THE EXHIBIT AUGUST 2010 AT THE HIRSHHORN Open Daily 10 am to 5:30 pm Admission is free
www.hirshhorn.si.edu explore the evolution of ordinary things
Join us at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum as we explore
ordinar y things and ever yday objects from their invention and ideation through the creation of contemporar y art. The exhibit will highlight the histor y of ordinar y things, from paper clips to neckties, and will showcase contemporar y art using these objects.
Work by prominent artists from around the countr y will be
featured in the lower level galler y during the entire month of August 2010. the history of everyday objects
MOST EVERYTHING that
surrounds us is artificial, other than the sky and the trees, lakes and rivers. Our perception of life is filtered through the design process and the touch of human hands. We live with thousands of inanimate everyday objects that often aren’t given a second thought. Pencils, paperclips, safety pins, zippers, chairs, rugs, roads and light bulbs. All these things have a unique history; a story behind how they were created and where they began.
THE OBJECTS and histories on
display throughout the Evolution of Ordinary Things exhibit are just a handful of all the items that make up our everyday lives. It would be impossible to include everything, as more things are popping up everyday. This part of the exhibit serves as a background and an introduction to the examination of everyday objects as a medium for contemporary art. concept + modern art
FROM THE BEGINNING,
humans have taken what available resources they have and created art. The urge to create has embedded itself in the human experience. From the early cave drawings, to the impressionist painter’s expanded palette, the mediums that are available for the creation of art are ever growing. Fast forward to modern times. We are all suffering a sensory overload— our world is full of objects and artifacts—we often have a hard time focusing and functioning. But to the artist, the world is an unlimited resource for different media and creations.
THERE IS a required amount
of artistic input, or interpretation within this form of art, which sets itself apart from the still life, portraits and landscape paintings that had forever been the backbone of the art world. As the world gets more complex, and we as a society are exposed to much more than we have ever been before, the way in which we create our art evolving at an exponential rate. the exhibit
THE EVOLUTION of Ordinary
Things begins with the history of the objects and artifacts we interact with on a daily basis and continues to focus on the contemporary art that is being created using these objects.
THE EXHIBIT focuses on the North
American folk artists that are actively creating art today. All of the artists that are highlighted in the exhibit are actively contributing and are continuing to grow as artists in today’s busy society. They bring with them a unique perspective, which is displayed through their compositions and visions.
THE GALLERY showcases many
different genres of art, from sculpture to mixed media collage. Whether it’s painting, installation or graphic design, there is a little something here for everyone to enjoy.
The exhibit will run the month
of August 2010 in the lower level galler y at the Hirshhorn Museum of Contemporar y Art. contributing THE GAC The Great Artist Collective, founded
artists in New Orleans in the 1970’s, looks
to further the folk arts in the community by working with local artist’s to EUGENE BRUENCHENHEIN produce outstanding collections and Freelance artist, poet, sculptor, collaborations. The group is active in innovator, arrow maker, plant man, the community and provides classes and bone artifact constructor, photogra- resources for those wish to get involved pher, architect and philosopher, Von and learn more about what it means to Bruenchenhein is one of the most be a folk artist in America today. complex and multifaceted American self-taught artists. Born in Marinette, HENRIK OLESEN Wisconsin, he self identified at an In his conceptually rigorous and early age as an artist. Von Bru- often witty work, Olesen investigates enchenhein produces expansive bod- structures of power and systems of ies of work in poetry, photography, knowledge to reveal inherent logics ceramics, painting, and drawing. and rules of social and political normalization. Olesen’s projects, based NEK CHAND on in-depth research, have addressed a Chand is a visionary self-taught artist range of subjects including legal codes, whose thousands of cement animal and the natural sciences, distribution of human sculptures occupy a 25-acre capital, and art history, and have taken site-specific art installation, the Rock the form of posters, fliers, text, collages, Garden, in Washington, D.C. Chand sculptures, and spatial interventions. uses large pieces of broken concrete and bricks to build her sculptures, paint- ANNETTE MESSAGER ing and arranging them until they seem One of the most important contemporary to take on a life of their own. artists working in the United States, Mes- sager fragments images and language MALCAH ZELDIS to explore the concept of fiction, the dia- Born in the Bronx in 1931, Malcah logue between individual and collective Zeldis engagingly taps into and identity, and the social issues of normalcy, captures the pulse of the urban morality, and the role of women. In her landscape. Her scenes of everyday work she forcefully illustrates the idea life and biblical and historical that all things, a child’s beloved toy, a subjects are often laced with photograph, a piece of embroidery, a autobiographical elements. Audacious word with unambiguous meaning, can be in her color palette, Zeldis’s hues transformed into fantastic expressions. vibrate with rhythmic intensity. programs + events
HENRY PETROSKI: 8.5
Join us as speaker Henry Petroski talks about his new book– The Evolution of Useful Things. 8 pm.
PAPER CLIPS PROJECT: 8.7
Full screening of the Paper Clips Project in the lower gallery. 6pm.
KIDS WORKSHOP: 8.8
Local artists put on a workshop for kids ages 5 to 12. 2pm.
SCULPTURE DEMO: 8.19
Annette Messager demonstrates her work from concept to creation. 4pm. Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden.
PARTY IN THE PARK: 8.30
Celebrate the end of the exhibit with a special event in the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden. 8pm.
All programs and events are free
and open to the public. For more information visit www.hirshhorn.si.edu. artists + art + audience The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is a leading voice for contemporary art and culture and provides a national platform for the art and artists of our time.
We seek to share the transformative power of modern and contemporary
art with audiences at all levels of awareness and understanding by creating meaningful, personal experiences in which art, artists, audiences and ideas converge.
We enhance public understanding and appreciation of contemporary
art through acquisition, exhibitions, education and public programs, conservation, and research. when everyday objects become your medium, there are no limits. life becomes art and art becomes life.