Tag Archives: Solomon R Guggenheim Museum

TALA MADANI IN CONVERSATION

I am not using humor in the same way as I did in previous paintings and to some extent, laughter served as a side effect to a way of working. Humor and laughter, however, did allow for freedom in the painting process, as I experience euphoria when I paint. My most recent works are indeed darker both in their subject matter and physicality. These canvases are predominantly black with darker backgrounds surrounding figures, but light still breaks through them. The reason I paint in a comic style is to lessen the intensity of the subject matter so that it becomes rawer and more palatable both on the canvas and to the viewer. It is also a subversive way of rendering difficult subject matters in painting. — Tala Madani

Madani will join curator Jessica Cerasi in conversation this week for a discussion about artistic practice and Madani’s recent series Shit Moms.

TALA MADANI—ONLINE ARTIST TALK

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Thursday, December 17.

9 am on the West Coast; noon East Coast; 5 pm London; 6 pm Paris.

Tala Madani, from top: Through modernism, 2017, oil on linen; Black Sun, 2017, silkscreen medium and oil on linen; Morris Men, 2012, oil on canvas; Untitled, 2015, oil on linen; The Womb, 2019, video still, animation, color, silent; Dirty Protest, 2015, oil on linen; Bedside Scratch, 2016, oil on linen. Images © Tala Madini, courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery.

PIA CAMIL OPENING

To celebrate the installation of HERE COMES THE SUN—her new work for the Guggenheim rotunda—join Pia Camil in conversation with Pablo León de la Barra for a discussion of her practice, with a reception to follow.

HERE COMES THE SUN, a crowdsourced fabric sculpture, “extends the artist’s engagement with collaboration, the impact of consumer culture, contemporary trade routes, and the legacies of modernism.”*

PIA CAMIL and PABLO LEÓN DE LA BARRA IN CONVERSATION*

Friday, November 8, at 6:30.

PIA CAMIL—HERE COMES THE SUN RECEPTION

Friday, November 8, at 7:30 pm.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), New York City.

From top: Pia Camil; Camil, Telón de boca, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, 2018, installation view; Camil, Bara bara bara, Tramway, Glasgow, 2019, installation view. Images courtesy and © the artist, the photographers, the exhibiting institutions, and Blum & Poe.

LYLE ASHTON HARRIS AND PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA

Lyle Ashton Harris and Paul Mpagi Sepuya will talk about their practice and participation in IMPLICIT TENSIONS—MAPPLETHORPE NOW, part two of the Guggenheim’s exhibition of the late photographer’s work.

The conversation will be moderated by Robert Reid-Pharr, a scholar in the field of race and sexuality studies and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.

LYLE ASHTON HARRIS and PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA

THE IMAGES WE WANT TO SEEIMPLICIT TENSIONS ARTIST PANEL

Tuesday, October 1, at 6:30 pm.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), New York City.

From Top: Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Darkroom Mirror, 2017, inkjet print, © Paul Mpagi Sepuya; Lyle Ashton Harris, Americas, 1987–88, printed 2007, gelatin silver prints, © Lyle Ashton Harris; Robert Mapplethorpe, Ajitto, 1981, © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Images courtesy of the artists and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

MACHINE DAZZLE’S TREASURE

Coincident with New York Fashion Week, Machine Dazzle—artist, maximalist, and Taylor Mac’s costumier—presents TREASURE.

“Undressing layers of his past to make sense of the present, Machine will introduce twelve new looks alongside stories stitched together through song.”*

This musical performance piece will be accompanied by musical director Viva DeConcini and her band.

MACHINE DAZZLE—TREASURE*

Thursday through Saturday, September 5, 6, and 7.

All shows at 7:30 pm.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), New York City.

From top: Machine Dazzle; Machine Dazzle, Treasure (3); young Machine Dazzle of the Dazzle Dancers, photograph by Mr. Means. Images courtesy and © the artist.

JENNY HOLZER IN CONVERSATION

For “Good Artists,” her section of the exhibition ARTISTIC LICENSE—SIX TAKES ON THE GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION, Jenny Holzer chose works by, among others, Adrian Piper, Louise Nevelson, Cindy Sherman, Lee Bontecou, and Chryssa.

This week, join Holzer for a public conversation about the show.

REFLECTIONS ON ARTISTIC LICENSE—JENNY HOLZER

Tuesday, July 30, at 6:30 pm.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

1071 Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), New York City.

From top: Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1966, welded steel, canvas, epoxy, leather, wire, and light, © Lee Bontecou; Adrian Piper, The Mythic Being: Smoke, 1974, gelatin silver print, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © Adrian Piper; Louise Nevelson, Luminous Zag: Night, 1971, painted wood, 105 boxes, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, © 2018 Estate of Louise Nevelson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Images courtesy and © the artists and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.