Luis Camnitzer

September 30 – December 4, 2011

For exhibition details, visit www.belkin.ubc.ca

Until recently, Luis Camnitzer has been an insider’s tip in the field of conceptual art. This solo exhibition features some seventy works created since 1966, offering visitors a close look at the Uruguayan artist who may be considered one of the art world’s key figures in the second half of the 20th century. Included in the exhibition is a billboard project placed on the outside wall of the gallery. This retrospective displays a pyrotechnical intellect, an unusually coherent and principled corpus that is at the same time imbued with a rakish charm and poetic maturity.

Born in 1937 in Germany, Camnitzer was two years old when he emigrated with his Jewish parents to Montevideo, Uruguay. He moved to New York at 27, where he remains, creating works of unprejudiced synthesis of various cultures. He has made his mark internationally as an artist, critic, educator, and art theorist. Formally allied with the American Conceptualists and Minimalists of the 1960s and 1970s, over the past 50 years Camnitzer has developed an essentially autonomous oeuvre, recognizable by its acutely observed detail, its acerbic wit, as well as by its socio-political commitment.

Luis Camnitzer is organized by Daros Latinamerica, Z?rich, curated by Hans-Michael Herzog and Katrin Steffen.

Symposium:
The Future of the Contemporary

September 29, 2:00 – 5:30 pm
September 30, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm

Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
UBC. 1961 East Mall

To register, visit www.belkin.ubc.ca/events
This symposium will participate in a reassessment of the contemporary museum. Featuring lectures by a distinguished international panel of critics, artists, and curators, the symposium will ask what the obligations of the contemporary museum are when confronted by the publics that populate the diverse and often fraught space of the “global village.”

Speakers

• Nicolas Bourriaud (Independent Curator, Head of Inspection of Artistic Creation, French Ministry of Culture, Paris)
• Luis Camnitzer (SUNY College at Old Westbury, New York)
• Cl?mentine Deliss (Director, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt)
• Maureen Murphy (Independent Curator)
• Jaleh Mansoor (Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
• Saloni Mathur (Department of Art History, University of California Los Angeles)
• Nicolaus Schafhausen (Artistic and Managing Director, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam)
• Eugenio Valdes Figueroa (Director of Art Education and Research, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro)

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts and our Belkin Curator’s Forum members.

The Future of the Contemporary is co-organized and supported by the French Consulate of France in Vancouver and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. It is made possible with assistance from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ottawa, and the UBC Curatorial Lecture Series, supported by the Faculty of Arts and the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory.

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For more information contact:
Naomi Sawada, tel: 604-822-3640, naomi.sawada@ubc.ca

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