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ATOMICA
making
the invisible visible
Group
Show
Esso Gallery and Lombard-Freid
Fine Arts
New
York City
June
7 - July 10 2005
curated by Ombretta Agro' Andruff
The program of
film and video screenings will feature rarely seen documentaries and
films by: Stefano Cagol,
Oleg Chorny and Gena Khmaruck, Andreas Samland, Motohashi Seiichi,
Stephen Sotor and Trace Gaynor, Mark Waller, Kathleen Sullivan, Robert
Richter, Stan Warnow, and Muratbek Jumaliev & Gulnara Kasmalieva.
Participating
artists include: Shiva Ahmadi, Jesse Bransford, Chris Burden, Davide
Cantoni, Sarah Ciraci', Julian Dashper, Heide Fasnacht, Tony Feher,
Carlos Garaicoa, Joy Garnett, Leon Golub, Ingo Gunther, Mark
Handelmann, Keith Haring, Alfredo Jaar, Marguerite Kahrl, Peter
Kennard, Komar + Melamid, Seitaro Kuroda + Hironobu Yamabe, Molly
Larkey, Cristobal Lehyt, Ellen K. Levy, Robert Longo, Dominic McGill,
Curtis Mitchell, Nobuho Nagasawa, Taras Polataiko, Robert Polidori,
Michael Rakowitz, Lisi Raskin, Wilhelm Sasnal, Francesco Simeti, Nancy
Spero, Hiroshi Sunairi and John Timberlake.
"They made a desert, and they called it peace."
Tacitus, 37 AD
“What the world would
best remember of 1945 was the deadly mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Here were the force, the threat, the promise of the future…In
such a world who dared to be optimistic?”
The Bomb and the Man,
Time, 21 Dec. 1945
Esso
Gallery and Lombard-Freid Fine Arts are pleased to present a
collaborative group show entitled ATOMICA: Making the Invisible
Visible, based on a project by curator Ombretta Agro' Andruff.
On July 25, 1945 the
President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman ordered the
atomic bomb dropped on Japan. On August 6th, 1945 the rest of the world
was awakened to the specter of the nuclear apocalypse: a new and
unimaginable force had been unleashed and the threat that all life
could come to a sudden and horrific end became a reality.
August 6th, 2005
marks the sixtieth anniversary of the bombings and in conjunction with
a series of commemorative events in New York City, Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, ATOMICA: Making the Invisible Visible pays homage to the
power of art and its continuing relevance to engage the public in a
dialogue about war and peace.
ATOMICA brings
together a group of international artists of different backgrounds and
generations in an interactive dialog on the subject of nuclear threat
which is as much of a presence today as it was sixty years ago. This
exhibition features artists for whom the nuclear narrative has provided
inspiration for their entire artistic production in addition to other
emerging and established artists who under the current political
climate have found a voice and mechanism to express their discontent.
From didactic to sublime, this exhibition is an awareness platform from
where the audience can, in response to a past catastrophic event,
understand and react to a present and future danger.
>>> see
also: Stefano
Cagol @ Video Forum Basel
Stefano
Cagol,
Mònito - Monition. Mort Nucleàire , 1995, video
VHS PAL - 15 min.
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