IMAGES OF AN INFINITE FILM, AND MARTIN and More Set for MoMA's Events and Exhibitions, Sept 2013

The Museum of Modern Art has announced its exhibitions and events for September 2013. Details below!

Images of an Infinite Film
September 7, 2013-March 2, 2014
Yoshiko and Akio Morita Gallery, second floor

Images of an Infinite Film takes as its point of departure experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton's notion of an "infinite film," which envisions a history of film as an "endless ribbon" of all recorded images ever made. Images of an Infinite Film situates this idea between works that emulate processes of human memory or thought through structural or material interventions; objects that function as scores for imagined films; and moving images that take form entirely in the mind of the viewer. Featuring works by Kerry Tribe (American, b. 1973), Hollis Frampton (American, 1936-1984), Paul Sharits (American, 1943-1993), David Lamelas (Argentinean, b. 1946), Nan Hoover (American, 1931-2008), and an unidentified scientific photographer, the exhibition suggests a link between the fragility of film, the precarity of memory, and the subjective experience of assigning meaning to things in the world.

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Rethinking Landscape with Le Corbusier
Friday, September 13, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

Organized in conjunction with the exhibition, Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, this full-day symposium considers Le Corbusier's exploration of landscape in the context of current architectural theory and practice. From domestic spaces to urban landscapes to infrastructure design, this program will investigate Le Corbusier's work historically, while considering the widespread influence of his ideas today. This program was organized by exhibition curators Barry Bergdoll and Jean-Louis Cohen. Participants include Dorothée Imbert, Caroline Constant, Tim Benton, Adriaan Geuze, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Anthony Vidler, and Mia Lehrer, among others.
Tickets $25; $20 members; $12 students and seniors.

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New Photography 2013: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Lisa Oppenheim, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan
September 14, 2013-January 6, 2014
The Robert and Joyce Menschel Photography Gallery, third floor
Press Preview: Thursday, September 12, 10:00-11:00 a.m.

New Photography 2013 presents recent works by eight International Artists who have expanded the field of photography as a medium of experimentation and intellectual inquiry. Their porous practices-grounded in photographic artist's books, sculpture, photomontage, performance, and science-creatively reassess the themes and processes of making pictures today.

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And Martin performance by Brendan Fowler
Monday, September 16, 4:30 p.m.
The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor

And Martin is a radical update of BARR, the performance/band for which the artist first became known in the early 2000s. Taking the prior project's deconstruction of the pop singer as a starting point, this new performance mines a wider field of both the stand-up show and the TED Talk. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition New Photography 2013. Free with Museum admission.

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Dorothea Rockburne: Drawing Which Makes Itself
September 21, 2013-January 20, 2014
The Paul J. Sachs Drawings Galleries, third floor

"How could drawing be of itself and not about something else?" Dorothea Rockburne's 1973 exhibition at the Bykert Gallery in New York, a touchstone in modern drawing practice, aimed to address the artist's query. Using the wall as her surface, Rockburne created a series of works using carbon paper, which she manipulated to create a carefully mapped network of ruled lines; marks were made by the carbon removal along the folds in the paper. The resulting structures engage the viewer visually and bodily, shaping their perception of the gallery space and challenging expectations of what a drawing can be. Rockburne has said, "Drawing is the bones of thought." The exhibition Dorothea Rockburne:Drawing Which Makes Itself pays homage to the artist's groundbreaking project of the same name, with a group of major carbon paper and wall works-including Nesting and Neighborhood, from MoMA's collection-exhibited together for the first time since 1973. Contextualizing the wall drawings is a selection of Rockburne's works on paper and paintings from that decade, all selected from MoMA's strong holdings of her work. The exhibition highlights the concerns that have occupied the artist since her early career, including the application of mathematical principles, and her continued engagement with, and challenge of, the methods and practice of drawing.

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Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938
September 28, 2013-January 12, 2014
The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor
Press Preview: Tuesday, September 17, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

This exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on the breakthrough Surrealist years of René Magritte, creator of some of the 20th century's most extraordinary images. Beginning in 1926, when Magritte first aimed to create paintings that would, in his words, "challenge the real world," and concluding in 1938-a historically and biographically significant moment just before the outbreak of World War II-the exhibition traces central strategies and themes from the most inventive and experimental period in the artist's prolific career. Displacement, transformation, metamorphosis, the "misnaming" of objects, and the representation of visions seen in half-waking states are among Magritte's innovative image-making tactics during these essential years. Bringing together some 80 paintings, collages, and objects, along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and early commercial work, this exhibition offers fresh insight into Magritte's identity as a modern painter and Surrealist artist.

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Dante Ferretti: Design and Construction for the Cinema
September 28, 2013-February 9, 2014
The Roy and Niuta Titus galleries and the film lobby

Since 1969 Dante Ferretti has served as the production designer on over 50 feature films, 24 opera productions, and over a dozen television, museum, fashion, festival, and publication projects, working with the likes of fashion icon Valentino and directors Liliana Cavani and David Cronenberg, among others. His career-defining work has been done in collaboration with filmmakers Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, and Martin Scorsese. He has received the Academy Award, the British BAFTA, and the Italian David Di Donatello. Dante Ferretti: Design and Construction for the Cinema examines design practice for film through the lens of Ferretti's work, which is distinguished by the structural role it plays in the collaborative process of cinema art. As digital technology transforms the way films are staged, replacing the real with the virtual, Ferretti's work comes at what may be the end of a 100-year-long tradition of full-scale, studio-built environments for films. This exhibition also serves to document this transitioning of cinema practice through its selection and organization of drawings, large-scale installations, and digital projection.

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A selection of 22 films whose overall look and feel are defined by Ferretti's production design will be screened in Titus Theater 1.

Modern Mondays: The One Minute Film Festival
Monday, September 30, 7:00 p.m.
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

From 2003 through 2012, in a "barn cinema" in bucolic upstate New York, the artist-curator duo Jason Simon and Moyra Davey hosted The One Minute Film Festival, inviting fellow artists, musicians, writers, and moviemakers of all stripes to contribute a short film of their own devising. The festival became a cherished ritual: friends would religiously mark their calendars for the first Saturday after the Fourth of July. The films presented in Modern Mondays-by artists as far ranging as Peggy Ahwesh, Mark Dion, Chris Marker, and Josiah McElheny-are a joyous sampling of the hundreds that were screened during the festival's decade-long run. Presented by Jason Simon, Moyra Davey, and other artists.
Tickets $12; $10 seniors; $8 students

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Artwork: René Magritte (Belgium, 1898-1967). La reproduction interdite (Not to be Reproduced). 1937. Oil on canvas. 31 7/8 x 25 9/16 in. (81 x 65 cm). Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam. © Charly Herscovici -- ADAGP - ARS, 2013. Photograph: Studio Tromp, Rotterdam.