Gallery Talk with Rafael Vostell and Hannah Higgins

The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago is a site for rigorous inquiry and exchange that encourages the examination of complex issues through the lens of art objects and artistic practice. Through strong community and scholarly partnerships, the Museum incorporates diverse ideas, identities, and experiences into its exhibitions and collections, academic initiatives, and public programming. The Smart first opened in 1974. Admission is always free.

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In-gallery conversation with Rafael Vostell (Managing director of the Wolf Vostell Estate) and Hannah Higgins (Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago).
The discussion will address questions of materiality and ephemerality on display in the Smart Museum’s special exhibition <A HREF="http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/vostell-concrete-1969-1973/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Vostell Concrete</A> as well as the ways the Vostell and his Fluxus contemporaries shaped future practices.
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This event is part of <A HREF="http://arts.uchicago.edu/concrete-happenings/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Concrete Happenings</A> at the University of Chicago, a collaborative series of public exhibitions, screenings, symposia, and other programs that mark the return of Wolf Vostell’s colossal sculpture Concrete Traffic (1970) to public view following a major conservation effort.
 
Image: Wolf Vostell in Chicago in January 1970. Courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Library and Archives. Photo by David Katzive © MCA Chicago.

Gallery Talk with Rafael Vostell and Hannah Higgins

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