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Pablo Helguera

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Pablo Helguera is a New York-based artist who works with a wide variety of mediums including performance, sculpture, and photography that often engages social issues and also is the director of adult and academic programs at MoMA. Helguera is an exhibiting artist in the newly opened Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II which opened on Saturday. His classical cartoons are featured regularly on NPR’s Scherzo blog. He is also behind the newly launched series of artist-led participatory programs at MoMA called Artists Experiment.

This Friday musicians will perform Endingness here at the Henry Art Gallery in conjunction with Now Here is Also Nowhere: Part II.  Endingness is a composition for chamber orchestra designed to be performed together with the last movement of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Farewell symphony. This performance is but one component of Helguera’s three-part work, on view in the exhibition, and consists of three interrelated elements: a musical composition, a reconfigurable sculpture made of framed beeswax and an essay exploring themes of mortality, memory, art, and endings.

Friday, February 1st
7 pm
Get your tickets HERE.

Pollen From Hazelnut at the MoMA

The MoMA has just announced that it will be showing  Wolfgang Laib: Pollen From Hazelnut, from mid-January through the end of February 2013. The pollen installation will measure roughly 18 by 21 feet “collected over 12 years by the German artist Wolfgang Laib.”

“Pollen is the potential beginning of the life of the plant,” [Laib] said in a written statement. “It is as simple, as beautiful and as complex as this. And of course it has so many meanings. I think everybody who lives knows that pollen is important.”

The installation at the MoMA will be Laib’s largest installation to date. “Over the years he has made work from different kinds of pollen, including buttercup, dandelion, hazelnut and pine. As a material, it takes on a kind of glow.”

Read the rest of the New York Time’s Article HERE.

Pollen from Hazelnut (1995-96) by Wolfgang Laib is currently on display at the Henry. If you haven’t seen it yet come check it out!

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