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Talk: Alex Kitnick, Use Your Illusion: Barbara Kasten's "Architectural Sites"

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Oct 22

Talk: Alex Kitnick, Use Your Illusion: Barbara Kasten's "Architectural Sites"

By Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

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Thu, October 22, 2015, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

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International Museum of Surgical Science 1524 N Lake Shore Drive Chicago, IL 60610

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**Please note: The talk will take place at the International Museum of Surgical Science, 1524 N Lake Shore Drive. Doors open at 5:30pm and seating is limited, so please plan to arrive early. Following the talk, a reception will be held in the Graham Foundation galleries, where the exhibition Barbara Kasten: Stages is on view.**

Use Your Illusion: Barbara Kasten's Architectural Sites

ALEX KITNICK

In conjunction with our new exhibition, Barbara Kasten: Stages, art historian and critic Alex Kitnick will explore the critical stakes of Barbara Kasten's photographic series from the 1980s that artfully staged important works of American architecture, including Arata Isozaki’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Richard Meier’s High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Created at the height of postmodern theory, Kasten’s Architectural Sites submits iconic buildings to distorting angles and colored lights, thus transforming already vertiginous structures into truly illusory spaces. Kitnick argues that these photographs offer a unique form of criticism that seek to heighten—rather than deconstruct—the effects of an emerging Postmodernism, and that these effects are increasingly familiar today.

Alex Kitnick teaches at Bard College, where he was recently appointed the Brant Family Fellow in Contemporary Arts. In 2010 he received his PhD from the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. From 2011 to 2012 he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Kitnick's work frequently focuses on the intersection of art and architecture. He has edited numerous volumes including a collection of John McHale’s writings, The Expendable Reader: Articles on Art, Architecture, Design, and Media, 1951–1979, which was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation, and October 136 on New Brutalism. He is a frequent contributor to Artforum, October, and Texte zur Kunst, among other publications.


To learn more about the exhibition Barbara Kasten: Stages, click here.


Image: Barbara Kasten, "Architectural Site 17, August 29, 1988", 1988. Cibachrome. 60 X 50 inches. Location: High Musem of Art, Atlanta, GA. Architect: Richard Meier. Courtesy of the artist.

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