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Warhol and the Velvet Underground: Intermedia Collaborations 1966-67

(ANDY WARHOL) (THE VELVET UNDERGROND). “Poor Richard’s presents Andy Warhol and his Exploding Plastic Inevitable (Show) Featuring The New Sounds of the Velvet Underground with Nico – Pop Girl of ’66, June 21 thru June 26, Poor Richards 1363 No. Sedgwick (Old Town) (Chicago)”. 1966. Letterpress on cardboard. 22 x 14”. This example previously on long term loan to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA.

ART KANE. Andy Warhol. 1962. Vintage dye transfer print. Signed. Inscribed. Vintage print. Framed dimensions: 36 ½ x 29 ½”.

Alden Projects™ presents Warhol and the Velvet Underground: Intermedia Collaborations 1966-67 at NADA Miami 2014 (Booth 2.28). Along side his early work as painter and filmmaker, Andy Warhol managed--and collaborated profoundly with--the rock band, the Velvet Underground. Apart from simply contributing the interactive, peel-able “banana” artwork for the Velvet Underground’s first record (released March, 1967), collaborations consisted of groundbreaking interdisciplinary events and performances of so-called “intermedia,” combining film, music, dance, and lighting into a then-novel mixture. Turning his back on the autonomy of painting, Warhol’s hydra-headed, time-based, collaborative enterprise repudiated the purity of artistic media and individual authorship in favor of creating staged, happening-like events in diverse media. Shows were attended by mostly small numbers at art contexts, including the ICA in Boston and Rhode Island School of Design in 1966 where films and lights were projected onto musical performances of the Velvet Underground, including the choreographed dancing (sometimes with whips) by Warhol’s painting assistant, Gerard Malanga and others. Although the Velvet Underground went on to become just about the most influential band in the history of recent music, their particular place in the collaborative context of Warhol’s fine art deserves more focus.

(ANDY WARHOL) (THE VELVET UNDERGROUND) (EDIE SEDGEWICK). “’Andy Warhol, Up-Tight’ Feb 8 – Feb. 13^th (1966), Film-Maker’s Cinematheque, 41^st St. Theater.” Offset. 8 ½ x 11”. Flyer. Marked "1965" (sic) by Sterling Morrison.

Alden Projects™ brings together rare exhibition posters, event flyers, and unused tickets which, due to the essentially ephemeral character of these time-based events constitute, in some cases, just about the only tangible residue of what remains of these historic collaborations.

Alden Projects™ also announces the release of three new hand-carved, woodblock prints in small editions by Brooklyn-based artist, Nils Karsten, bringing a contemporary vantage onto this historical gambit. Also notable: Art Kane’s (1925 – 1995) early, large-scale, photographic portrait of a “golden” Warhol; the two art-directors-turned artists collaborated together on a 1962 magazine advertisement for Champion Papers that same year by creating portraits of each other.

NILS KARSTEN. Banana. 2014. Hand-carved woodblock print with ink on paper. 38 ½ x 38 ½” (work dimensions). Published by Alden Projects™ in a signed and numbered edition of 12 unique prints, some with different colors; four artist’s proofs.

Finally, Alden Projects™ also exhibits editions, prints, drawings, photographs and ephemera by John Baldessari, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Piero Heliczer, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Lee Lozano, Ed Ruscha and Christopher Wool and others.

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NADA MIAMI BEACH 2014
Alden Projects™ Booth 2.28

The Deauville Beach Resort
6701 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 3314

Opening:
Thursday, December 4, 10am - 2 pm
By Invitation

Public Hours:
Thursday, December 4: 2 pm - 8 pm
Friday, December 5: 11 am - 8 pm
Saturday, December 6: 11 am - 8 pm
Sunday, December 7: 11 am - 5 pm

Free and open to the public

Paper Will Blow Through The Streets

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

Pier 36 at Basketball CIty

299 South Street on the East River

New York, NY 10002

Pop and Publicity: 60s vs. 80s

Mixing unique and reproductive media, Alden Projects™ booth explores the strategic co-mingling of publicity in the art of the 1960s and the 1980s in Pop and Publicity: 60s vs. 80s. In addition to presenting signal works by first generation Pop artists, this booth explores the dialogue with the 1980s generation who self-consciously mined Pop strategies, reflecting--and reflecting upon--the publicity apparatuses of art and popular culture. Particular works include: a large scale subway drawing in chalk by Keith Haring (1982); rare wallpaper by Roy Lichtenstein (1968); rare and consequential prints and posters by Robert Rauschenberg, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Christopher Wool; last but not least, this booth also includes Robert Indiana's Love (1965) exhibited here in its very first incarnation, commissioned by MoMA to be made for, and to function as a silkscreened Christmas card (1965); this Pop treasure is of legendary rarity (known but otherwise unseen even by most Robert Indiana scholars). Indiana's Love is juxtaposed with General Idea's edition, Aids Stamps (1988) which transformed the 1960s-era icon into an urgent message from the 1980s. Also presented as a dialectical coda are two recent sculptures by young French artist, Nicolas Giraud depicting Brillo Boxes fashioned after Warhol's, but here silkscreened only in black, white, and gray; conjuring up ghosts of archaic reproductive media, Giraud's Brillo Boxes recall the fading memories that Warhol's Pop was originally widely publicized in the black and white re-printings.

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METRO SHOW 2014
Alden Projects™ Booth #119

The Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), New York City

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6 - 7 pm, by VIP invitation only 7 - 9 pm, Public Preview with ticketed admission Thursday, January 23 - Sunday, January 26, 2014 Thursday, 11 am - 7 pm Friday, 11 am - 7 pm Saturday, 11 am - 7 pm Sunday, 12 noon - 5:30 pm