Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky
The University Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky on view through October 30, 2005. The exhibition will present works created in the urban environment of New York City where the artists have been living since 1988. The works featured in the exhibition are The Day Before Tomorrow (1999), a two-screen slide projection; Incidents (1996-2002), a two-screen video projection; and Fog (1999-2000), a single-screen projection. These works were previously exhibited at three international biennials, in a number of museum exhibitions, and are included in several important museum collections. In addition, the Kopystianskys have produced an entirely new work: 526 (2005), a six-screen slide projection specifically for their exhibition at the University Gallery.
The Kopystianskys have jointly participated in many international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale Aperto (1988), Sydney Biennial (1992), San Paolo Biennial (1994), Istanbul Biennale (1995), Sculpture Project Munster (1997), Johannesburg Biennale (1997), Lyon Biennale (1997), First British Biennale in Liverpool (1999), and Documenta 11 (2002). Solo exhibitions of Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky have taken place at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, (DAAD) Berlin (1991); Kunsthalle Dusseldorf (1994); The Art Institute of Chicago (1996); The Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf (2000); the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2003); and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (2005). Their work is represented by Lisson Gallery in London and was recently exhibited at Christine Burgin Gallery in New York.
The exhibition is guest curated by Gregory Salzman, an independent curator who previously included Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky's video, Fog (1999-2000) in an exhibition concerning landscape. The present exhibition will travel to the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany, where it will be on view from December 20, 2005 to February 26, 2006. A fully illustrated catalogue, featuring essays by Gregory Salzman and director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Adam D. Weinberg, will accompany the exhibition.
Related Events:
In Conversation
Saturday, September 17, 5:00 pm
Fine Arts Center Lobby
Artists Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky discuss their work with curator Gregory Salzman.
Opening Reception
Saturday, September 17, 6:00 pm
The artists will be present.
Russian, French and German 1920s Avant-garde Cinema
Tuesday, September 20, 7:00 pm
Flavin Auditorium, School of Management, UMass
A selection of newly released, digitally restored avant-garde short films from the 1920s will be screened, featuring such artists as Eggeling, Eisenstein, Epstein, L?ger, Richter, and Ruttmann. These screenings are in collaboration with Professor Barton Byg, Germanic Languages & Literatures, DEFA Film Library and by special arrangement with The Raymond Rohauer Collection/The Douris Corporation.
Related Exhibition:
Constructivism and Collage: Selections from the Thomas A. Whitney Collection
Mead Art Museum, Arms Gallery, Amherst College
September 22 to December 18, 2005
Events are free and all are welcome to attend. This program of the Fine Arts Center is supported in part by the University of Massachusetts Arts Council.
