ARTICULATIONS | ANTON GINZBURG | BOOK LAUNCH | VIRTUAL
Friday, February 26, 2021
4 PM-6 PM MST | 6 PM-8 PM EST
FREE
with Anton Ginzburg, Anastasiya Osipova, Ksenia Nouril, & Junni Chen
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The SAAG is pleased to host an online launch of Anton Ginzburg’s new publication, Blue Flame: Constructions and Initiatives (2020), published by Hatje Cantz and SAAG in 2020. Join us on Zoom for a conversation with the artist and book contributors Anastasiya Osipova and Ksenia Nouril, moderated by Junni Chen.
Blue Flame: Constructions and Initiatives concludes the trilogy of monographs exploring the process of survival and endurance of historical forms. The cycle opened with At the Back of the North Wind (Hatje Cantz, 2012), Ginzburg’s research into the myth of Hyperborea. Walking the Sea (Hatje Cantz, 2014), the second book, details Ginzburg’s exploration of the Aral Sea. Now, in this final installment, Ginzburg turns to the endangered legacy of another promised utopian territory––Russian Constructivism. Ginzburg is investigating ways to reanimate the interrupted Soviet avant-garde experiments and evaluate the validity of their formal-structural method in the present cultural context.
Blue Flame: Constructions and Initiatives is a critical documentation of Ginzburg’s body of paintings and films. This event will present insights by two of the catalogues’ authors, Ksenia Nouril, and Anastasia Osipova, as well as the artist himself.
Anton Ginzburg is a New York-based artist, known for his films, sculptures, paintings, and text-based printed work that investigates historical narratives and poetic studies of place, representation, and post-Soviet identity. He earned a BFA from The New School's Parsons School of Design and MFA degree from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
His work has been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Canada, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, White Columns in New York, Lille 3000 in Euralille, France, and the first and second Moscow Biennales. His films have been screened at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR), Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Soluna), Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Les Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and New York Film Festival/Projections among others.
Learn more | www.antonginzburg.com
Anastasiya Osipova is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she teaches and writes on Soviet and post-Soviet culture. She is also a co-founder and editor of Cicada Press, an imprint that pursues contemporary Eastern European politically engaged poetic texts.
Ksenia Nouril is an art historian, curator, and writer specializing in global modern and contemporary art. She is the Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center in Philadelphia. Previously, she worked at the Bruce Museum, Zimmerli Art Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art, where she co-edited and contributed to Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology (2018) and Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov: Stories About Ourselves (editor and contributor, Rutgers University Press, 2019). She holds a BA in Art History and Slavic Studies from New York University and an MA and PhD in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her writing appears frequently in exhibition catalogues and other publications, including ARTMargins Online, The Calvert Journal, and OSMOS.
Junni Chen is a New York-based curator and writer. She has organized two of Ginzburg's recent solo exhibitions, including Anton Ginzburg: Translucent Concrete (2020), and Anton Ginzburg: VIEWs (2019), which were both presented at Helwaser Gallery, New York. Chen is also a co-editor of the third monograph on Ginzburg's practice, entitled Blue Flame: Constructions and Initiatives, which is jointly published by Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG) and Hatje Cantz. She is currently an M.A. Candidate at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Previously, she also served as a Curatorial Assistant in the National Gallery Singapore, as part of the curatorial team of Artist and Empire: (En)countering Colonial Legacies (2016).
The book launch for Blue Flame: Constructions and Initiatives is presented in conjunction with Anton Ginzburg’s SAAG exhibition Blue Flame: Constructions and Initiatives and current exhibition Anton Ginzburg: Translucent Concrete at Helwaser Gallery, New York.
Learn more | www.helwasergallery.com
Guests will receive a 20% discount on the book (regular price $60USD/$75CAD).
Please email info@saag.ca to inquire about purchasing the publication in Canada, or info@helwasergallery.com in the US.
