Ubu Gallery
Grief and Art: An Uncomfortable Conversation Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 6:30PM Deutsches Haus at New York University |
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| Ubu Gallery is pleased to announce a dialogue between Marc Pachter and Heide Hatry titled Grief and Art: An Uncomfortable Conversation at Deutsches Haus at NYU. This event will take place on January 11th at 6:30PM and is presented in the context of Heide Hatry’s current exhibition Icons in Ash: Cremation Portraits at Ubu Gallery. Oriented around the general theme of death, this conversation will address a wide range of questions: personal, philosophical, aesthetic, and cultural that death and art inspire, including what for the artist Heide Hatry has been the most tortured, and at times even crippling, issue throughout the many years she has been moving toward this deeply personal body of work. Namely, how can a German artist (presume to) make art from the actual ashes of human beings? The conversation will be followed by a question-and-answer session and copies of Heide Hatry’s new book Icons in Ash will be available for signing. | ||||
| Paul Schmid, 2009, Mixed media (loose ash particles, birch coal dust, white marble dust, beeswax), 14″ x 11″ (35.6 x 27.9 cm) | ||||
| Marc Pachter is a cultural historian who takes a particular interest in American/European cultural relations. He is Director Emeritus of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and launched his interest in biography as a literary form as editor of Telling Lives: The Biographer’s Art (New Republic Press). He was called the Smithsonian’s “master interviewer” when awarded the Institution’s Gold Medal (Ted Talk about The Art of the Interview here). Pachter lives in New York, Bangkok and Berlin.
Heide Hatry is a New York based German artist, often described as neo-conceptualist, whose work transforms, transcends or transgresses the customary relationship of artist to both audience and art. Among her fundamental preoccupations are identity, gender roles, the nature of aesthetic experience and the meaning of beauty, the effects of knowledge upon perception, and the human exploitation of the natural world. She studied and taught art at various schools in Germany while simultaneously conducting an international business as an antiquarian bookseller. She has curated numerous exhibitions, has shown her own work at museums and galleries around the world, has created nearly two hundred artists’ books, and edited more than two dozen printed books and art catalogs. Skin (2005), Heads and Tales (2009) and Not a Rose (2012) all document her own art and amount to collaborative conceptual artists’ books involving some of the most interesting thinkers and authors of our time. Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. |
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