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| Eleanor Antin. 100 Boots. Complete set of 51 cards. |
LOS ANGELES ART CONTEMPORARY
Alden Projects™ Booth D10
Outside the Box: Beyond the White Cube, 1957-1993
Alden Projects™ presents Outside the Box: Beyond the White Cube, 1957
– 1993 at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2015 (Booth #D10). This project focuses on artists who deviated
from the straight path of art designed for gallery display and whose
unconventional distribution strategies extended the space of art beyond the “neutral”
boundaries of gallery walls.
These artists disseminated
works through the mail, on the streets, on subway walls, as books, as
non-sites, on record covers etc.--all of which pushed the boundaries of the
(then) conventional limits of art. California artists loom large here: Ed
Ruscha’s books (1963-77) are undeniable, signal works. Other highlights include
a complete collection of Eleanor Antin’s 100
Boots (1971 – 73) series, consisting of staged photographs that were conceived
not as fine art photography, but instead as 51 post cards distributed through
the mail over a nearly two year period to hundreds of art world participants. Another
milestone is John Baldessari and George Nicolaidis’ Boundary (1969) consisting of 2000 stickers (containing a printed definition
of the word “ghetto”) and “installed” along an eleven-mile perimeter of a then
unmapped “ghetto”. A rarely seen remnant
is exhibited here. Like most of the work at Alden Projects™’ booth, this marker
addresses an audience and a space beyond the conventional perimeters of art. Marking
differences outside of gallery contexts, Boundary
“makes visible what is invisible” (Baldessari).
Artists include: Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Enrico Castellani, John Feckner, General Idea, Keith Haring, Jenny
Holzer, Sol Lewitt, Piero Manzoni, Gordon Matta-Clark, George Nicolaidis, Ed
Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol & The Velvet Underground and
Christopher Wool.
The Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Opening Preview:
Thursday, January 29
By Invitation
Fair Hours:
Friday, January 30: 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday, January 31: 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, February 1: 11 am - 6 pm
Tickets available for purchase here
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| John Baldessari and George Nicolaidis. Boundary. 1969. |
PRINTED MATTER'S LA ART BOOK FAIR
Alden Projects™ Booth M07
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Opening Preview:
Thursday, January 29: 6 pm - 9 pm
Tickets available for purchase here
Fair Hours:
Friday, January 30: 12 pm - 7 pm
Saturday, January 31: 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, February 1: 11 am - 6 pm
Free and open to the public