exhibition on view in the micro-gallery
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Intuition Box
curated by Tim Rollins
May
7 - June 18, 2005
Joseph Beuys
Dara Birnbaum
Alighiero Boetti
Brookes Britcher
Hanne Darboven
Fernanda Gomez
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Louise Lawler
Sherrie Levine
Blinky Palermo
Sigmar Polke
Paul Ramirez Jonas
Nelson Savinon
Jeff Sonhouse
Thomas Struth
Devin Therriault
Rosemarie Trockel
Richard Tuttle
Carrie Mae Weems
Fischli & Weiss
James Welling
Petra Wunderlich
Curator’s
Office is pleased to announce an exhibition curated by artist Tim Rollins
of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Entitled Intuition Box, after the title of a multiple
on view by Joseph Beuys, this project brings together works by major twentieth
and emerging twenty-first century artists. Tim Rollins is internationally
known for his work with the art collective, K.O.S. (Kids of Survival).
He is also an avid curator, writer, and collector. Rollins says, “As
an artist and collector, I'm most excited and moved by works of art that,
at face value, have absolutely no reason to exist. Yet these things do
come into being despite it all - again, again and again. This exhibition
affirms the substance of things not seen. I take these works as acts of
faith and intuition made material.”
Curator’s Office micro-gallery has been described as a tiny jewel
box setting for important and innovative international contemporary art.
The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, sculpture
and video. It is installed salon style to release each work’s idiosyncrasies
and make connections to others. Critic Mark Godfrey writes in the May 2005
Artforum how frequently an artist’s curatorial approach “never
reduces the choices to bullet points in a curatorial argument. Institutionally
affiliated curators might be inspired by but also envious of this tack,
for though they may like to curate in this way, they have to answer to
directors and education departments, marketing managers who seek big ideas,
buzzwords, and selling points. All this means that institutions rarely
sanction shows with such juxtapositions - which seem as utterly necessary,
motivated by something in each of the works, as they are subjective. It
also explains why more and more curators are inviting artists to put together
exhibitions. Artists have the license they crave: Intuition, after all,
is in their job description.”
Select digital images available upon request.