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Several Silences

April 26 – June 07, 2009

 
 
Lewis Baltz
Anechoic Chamber, French Telecom Laboratories 1989
Fuji Crystal archive print
42 x 57 inches
Courtesy of the artist, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
 
Manon de Boer
Two Times 4' 33" 2008
35 mm film transferred to HDV, colour, Dolby Surround sound.
12' 34"
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Jan Mot, Brussels
 
Troy Brauntuch
Untitled (Shirt #1) 2007
Conte on cotton
63" x 51"
Courtesy of Michael A. Young Collection, New York
 
Troy Brauntuch
Untitled (Shirt #3) 2007
Conte on cotton
63" x 51"
Courtesy of Dirk Skreber Collection, New York
 
Paul Dickinson
Tableau Vivant 1998
Audio recording, vinyl LP
Courtesy of the artist
 
Ryan Gander
A sheet of paper on which I was about to draw, as it slipped from my table and fell to the floor 2008
100 crystal balls
5 7/8 inches in diameter each, installation dimensions variable
Courtesy of Collection Carnegie Museum of Art
Purchase Gift of the Friends of the 2008 Carnegie International
In honor of Richard Armstrong, 2009
 
Geissler and Sann
"Personal Kill" #13 2007
C-print
41 x 51.5 inches
Courtesy of Beate Geissler/Oliver Sann and Fiedler Taubert Contemporary, Berlin
 
Gran Fury
Silence = Death 1987
Neon
48" x 79"
Courtesy of Collection of the New Museum, New York
Purchased with funds from the William Olander Memorial Fund
 
Harold Mendez
Nothing Prevents Anything 2007
Acrylic paint, staples, tape, paper, graphite, transparent enamel, black silicone carbide
48 x 48 inches
Courtesy of the artist
 
Harold Mendez
Better off then than when life was babble? 2007
Acrylic paint, staples, tape, paper, graphite, transparent enamel, black silicone carbide
48 x 48 inches
Courtesy of the artist
 
Harry Shearer
The Silent Echo Chamber 2009
7 screen video installation
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
 
Jonty Semper
The one minute of silence from the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
Recorded in Hyde Park, London, September 6, 1997
1997
Audio recording, vinyl 7"
Courtesy of the artist
 
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
4 feet 33 inches of silence 1996
Hand-etched vinyl recording
Courtesy of the artist
 
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
4 feet 33 inches of silence 1996
Hand-etched vinyl recording
Courtesy of the artist
 

   
   
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