Paper Will Blow Through the
Streets—the subject
of Alden Projects™’ booth at NADA New York 2014—focuses on signal works from the
1960s-90s for which ephemerality is both subject and object. Artists include:
Eleanor Antin, Linda Benglas, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Marcel
Duchamp, Öyvind Fahlström, General Idea, Robert Indiana, Keith
Haring, Jenny Holzer, Sam Hsieh, Yves Klein, Barbara Kruger, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed
Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool and more.
Paper Will Blow Through the
Streets borrows
its title from an early, furtive performance by James Lee Byars who printed the
words “A WHITE PAPER WILL BLOW THROUGH THE STREETS” onto a large disc of Japanese
paper, one example of which is also said to have been released onto the ancient
streets of Kyoto in 1967. What remains of this ephemeral work are printed
sheets of white paper commemorating the artist’s celebration of art in the
floating world. Not conceived for display or sale in a gallery, these
performance relics were distributed freely instead, neatly conflating the
ephemeral subject and object in a nearly perfect articulation of art as an
eternally ephemeral subject.
Most of
the artists included in Paper Will Blow Through the Streets respond to the fugitive legacy of Marcel Duchamp who is
represented. Highlights include the only print attributed to Warhol that is
known to have been silkscreened by Warhol himself (1963); a complete, signed collection
of the photographic books by Ed Ruscha (1963-78) accompanied by rarely seen
ephemera; post-card works by Eleanor Antin (1971-73); a subway drawing and
other works by Keith Haring; important street posters by Jenny Holzer (1979-82) and Barbara
Kruger (ca. 1983), including an unpublished, variant by the latter.
Alden Projects™ Booth 204
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NADA NEW YORK 2014
Alden Projects™ Booth 204
Friday, May 9 - Sunday, May 11
Opening Preview:
Friday May 9: 10am - 2pm
Open to the Public:
Friday, May 9: 2pm - 7pm
Saturday, May 10: 11am - 7pm
Sunday, May 11: 11am - 5pm
NADA NEW YORK 2014
Alden Projects™ Booth 204
Friday, May 9 - Sunday, May 11
Opening Preview:
Friday May 9: 10am - 2pm
Open to the Public:
Friday, May 9: 2pm - 7pm
Saturday, May 10: 11am - 7pm
Sunday, May 11: 11am - 5pm
Pier 36 at Basketball CIty
299 South Street on the East River
New York, NY 10002