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VISIT THE EXHIBIT AUGUST 2010 AT THE HIRSHHORN
Independence Avenue at Seventh StreetWashington DC 202-633-1000
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Open Daily10 am to 5:30 pmAdmission is free
www.hirshhorn.si.edu
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Join us at the Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum as we explore
ordinary things and everyday objects rom their invention
and ideation through the creation o contemporary art. The
exhibit wil l highl ight the his tory o ordinary things, rom
paper cl ips to neckties, and wil l showcase contemporary
art using these objects.
Work by prominent ar tis ts rom around the country wil l be
eatured in the lower level gal lery during the entire month
o August 2010.
explorethe evolution
of ordinary things
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the historyof everydayobjects
MOST EVERYTHING that
surroundsus is artifcial, other
than the sky and the trees, lakes
and rivers. Our perception o
lie is fltered through the design
process and the touch o human
hands. We live with thousands
o inanimate everyday objects
that oten arent given a secondthought. Pencils, paperclips, saety
pins, zippers, chairs, rugs, roads
and light bulbs. All these things
have a unique history; a story
behind how they were created
and where they began.
THE OBJECTS and histories on
display throughout the Evolution o
Ordinary Things exhibit are just ahandul o all the items that make
up our everyday lives. It would be
impossible to include everything,
as more things are popping up
everyday. This part o the exhibit
serves as a background and an
introduction to the examination o
everyday objects as a medium or
contemporary art.
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concept +modern art
FROM THE BEGINNING,humans have taken whatavailable resources they haveand created art. The urge tocreate has embedded itsel inthe human experience. Fromthe early cave drawings, to theimpressionist painters expandedpalette, the mediums that are
available or the creation o artare ever growing. Fast orwardto modern times. We are allsuering a sensory overloadour world is ull o objects andartiactswe oten have a hardtime ocusing and unctioning.But to the artist, the world is anunlimited resource or dierentmedia and creations.
THERE IS a required amounto artistic input, or interpretationwithin this orm o art, whichsets itsel apart rom the stilllie, portraits and landscapepaintings that had orever beenthe backbone o the art world.As the world gets more complex,and we as a society are exposed
to much more than we have everbeen beore, the way in whichwe create our art evolving at anexponential rate.
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theexhibit
THE EVOLUTION o Ordinary
Things begins with the history o the
objects and artiacts we interact with
on a daily basis and continues to
ocus on the contemporary art that is
being created using these objects.
THE EXHIBIT ocuses on the North
American olk artists that are activelycreating art today. All o the artists
that are highlighted in the exhibit
are actively contributing and are
continuing to grow as artists in todays
busy society. They bring with them a
unique perspective, which is displayed
through their compositions and visions.
THE GALLERY showcases many
dierent genres o art, rom sculptureto mixed media collage. Whether
its painting, installation or graphic
design, there is a little something here
or everyone to enjoy.
The exhibit will run the month
of August 2010 in the lower
level gallery at the Hirshhorn
Museum of Contemporary Art.
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contributingartists
EUGENE BRUENCHENHEIN
Freelance artist, poet, sculptor,innovator, arrow maker, plant man,
bone artiact constructor, photogra-
pher, architect and philosopher, Von
Bruenchenhein is one o the most
complex and multiaceted American
sel-taught artists. Born in Marinette,
Wisconsin, he sel identiied at an
early age as an artist. Von Bru-
enchenhein produces expansive bod-
ies o work in poetry, photography,
ceramics, painting, and drawing.
NEK CHANDChand is a visionary sel-taught artist
whose thousands o cement animal and
human sculptures occupy a 25-acre
site-specifc art installation, the Rock
Garden, in Washington, D.C. Chand
uses large pieces o broken concrete
and bricks to build her sculptures, paint-
ing and arranging them until they seemto take on a lie o their own.
MALCAH ZELDISBorn in the Bronx in 1931, Malcah
Zeldis engagingly taps into and
captures the pulse o the urban
landscape. Her scenes o everyday
lie and biblical and historical
subjects are oten laced with
autobiographical elements. Audacious
in her color palette, Zeldiss hues
vibrate with rhythmic intensity.
THE GACThe Great Artist Collective, ounded
in New Orleans in the 1970s, looks
to urther the olk arts in the community
by working with local artists to
produce outstanding collections and
collaborations. The group is active inthe community and provides classes and
resources or those wish to get involved
and learn more about what it means to
be a olk artist in America today.
HENRIK OLESENIn his conceptually rigorous and
oten witty work, Olesen investigates
structures o power and systems o
knowledge to reveal inherent logics
and rules o social and political
normalization. Olesens projects, based
on in-depth research, have addressed a
range o subjects including legal codes,
the natural sciences, distribution o
capital, and art history, and have taken
the orm o posters, liers, text, collages,
sculptures, and spatial interventions.
ANNETTE MESSAGER
One o the most important contemporaryartists working in the United States, Mes-
sager ragments images and language
to explore the concept o fction, the dia-
logue between individual and collective
identity, and the social issues o normalcy,
morality, and the role o women. In her
work she orceully illustrates the idea
that all things, a childs beloved toy, a
photograph, a piece o embroidery, a
word with unambiguous meaning, can be
transormed into antas tic expressions.
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programs+ events
HENRY PETROSKI: 8.5Join us as speaker Henry Petroski
talks about his new book The
Evolution of Useful Things. 8 pm.
PAPER CLIPS PROJECT: 8.7Full screening of the Paper Clips
Project in the lower galler y. 6pm.
KIDS WORKSHOP: 8.8Local artists put on a workshop for
kids ages 5 to 12. 2pm.
SCULPTURE DEMO: 8.19Annette Messager demonstrates her
work from concept to creation. 4pm.
Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden.
PARTY IN THE PARK: 8.30
Celebrate the end of the exhibit witha special event in the Hirshhorn
Sculpture Garden. 8pm.
All programs and events are free
and open to the public. For more
information visit www.hirshhorn.si.edu.
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The Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is a leading
voice or contemporary art and culture and provides a national platorm
or the art and artists o our time.
We seek to share the transormative power o modern and contemporary
art with audiences at all levels o awareness and understanding by
creating meaningul, personal experiences in which art, artists, audiences
and ideas converge.
We enhance public understanding and appreciation o contemporary
art through acquisition, exhibitions, education and public programs,
conservation, and research.
artists + art + audience
wheneverydayobjectsbecome
your medium,there areno limits.life becomesart and artbecomeslife.
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