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Santa Fe, NM - SITE Santa Fe is
pleased to announce the appointment of Robert Storr as curator for its Fifth
International Biennial, scheduled to run July 17, 2004 through January 9,
2005.
"We are very proud to be able to add Robert Storr to our outstanding roster
of biennial curators, which to date has included Bruce W. Ferguson, Francesco
Bonami, Rosa Martínez, and Dave Hickey," says SITE Santa Fe director
Louis Grachos. "Rob is one of our country's most accomplished and preeminent
curators, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with him on
our Fifth International Biennial."
Robert Storr was recently appointed the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern
Art at The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Prior to this appointment,
Storr was Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum
of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, a position he held for 12 years. During his
tenure there, Storr was instrumental in acquiring many important works that
greatly enhanced the museum's collection.
This biennial exhibition will look at the idea of the grotesque, defined as
the counter-term to artistic idealism, in contemporary art. The exhibition
will examine a cross-section of recent "grotesqueries" in an effort to highlight
the range and ambition of its practitioners and in the hope of rescuing the
term from its common pejorative connotations.
Exhibitions organized by Robert Storr for MoMA include Gerhard Richter:
Forty Years of Painting (2002), Cross Currents: New Art from the Collection
of MoMA (1999, Hara Museum, Tokyo), Tony Smith: Architect, Painter,
Sculptor (1998), Chuck Close (1998), and On the Edge: Contemporary
Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection (1997-98). Storr
was the coordinating curator of Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings,
The 1980s (1997) and Bruce Nauman (1995). He has also organized
exhibitions of Susan Rothenberg's work for the Rooseum Center for Contemporary
Art in Malmö, Sweden (1989), and Bruce Nauman's work for the São
Paulo Bienal (1998) in Brazil.
Storr is the author of the accompanying catalogues for many of these exhibitions,
and has also written catalogue essays and articles on artists such as Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Lucian Freud, Eva Hesse, Anselm Kiefer, and Martin Puryear. He has
been a contributing editor for Art in America and Grand Street,
and his criticism has appeared in Art Press, Art Forum, The Art Journal,
The Village Voice, and The New York Times, among other publications.
Storr lectures frequently on contemporary art and has taught painting, drawing,
art criticism, and art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University;
the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia; the Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore; the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York.
SITE Santa Fe's Fourth International Biennial, Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed
Cosmopolitanism, was presented in 2001 to critical acclaim and popular
success. The Fifth International Biennial will open in 2004, a one-year delay
that will accommodate SITE Santa Fe's plans for renovation of its exhibition
spaces, scheduled to take place during 2003. This renovation will set the
stage for what is expected to be SITE Santa Fe's largest and most ambitious
biennial exhibition to date.
Contact: Press Office
Tel: 505.989.1199
Fax:505.989.1188
email: press@sitesantafe.org
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