We’re pleased to announce news of an upcoming exhibition at UBC’s Belkin Gallery, September 30 – December 4, 2011.
This is a travelling show, currently at El Museo del Barrio in New York. Here is a short description:
Luis Camnitzer has been until very recently an insider’s tip in the field of conceptual art. He may be considered one of the art world’s key figures in the second half of the 20th century. This solo exhibition, with some 70 pieces created by the Uruguayan artist between 1966 and the present day, offers visitors a close look at his work.
Camnitzer was born in Germany in 1937, grew up in Montevideo, and has lived and worked in New York since 1964. He has made his mark internationally not only as an artist but as a critic, educator, and art theorist as well. Formally allied with the American Conceptualists of the 1960s and 1970s, over the past 50 years Camnitzer has developed an essentially autonomous Ĺ“uvre, unmistakably distinguished from that of his colleagues in the US by its acutely observed detail, its acerbic wit, its ludic-lyrical qualities and its ironically metaphorical polyvalence, as well as by its solid socio-political commitment.
The Daros Latinamerica Collection enjoys the world’s largest institutional collection of Camnitzer’s work, and it is from that store that this comprehensive exhibition has been assembled (curated by Hans-Michael Herzog).
There is also a symposium, “The Future of the Contemporary”, organized in connection with this exhibition. Speakers include Antonio Eligio (Tonel), as well as Camnitzer himself.