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Text by Malik Gaines, Ernest Hardy, Philippe Vergne, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
Restless Empathy examines the complex process of projecting into the interior world of another--whether artist, viewer or object--and seeking to make a connection. For the exhibition, the Aspen Art Museum has invited eight artists--Allora & Calzadilla, Pawel Althamer, Marc Bijl, Lara Favaretto, Geof Oppenheimer, Lars Ramberg, Frances Stark and Mark Wallinger--to propose projects sited throughout the museum and town of Aspen. While diverse in practice, these artists create and explore empathy in unexpected ways. With recent works grouped under Relational Aesthetics, the viewer becomes instrumentalized within the work itself. Rather than use people as a medium, however, the artists in Restless Empathy make generous gestures toward the public, marked by a deep sincerity and moments of intimate surprise. Subverting expectations of permanence and monumentality in art that addresses the public, Restless Empathy broadly explores relationships between aesthetics, space, locality and modes of address.
Introduction by Paul Ha. Text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Laura Fried. Epilogue by Matthew Thompson.
Although drawing is often thought of as a preparatory medium for sculptors, oftentimes it is, in fact, a more primary mode of expression and investigation. Featuring works on paper by Matthew Barney, Anne Chu, Keith Edmier, Teresita Fernández, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Thomas Scheibitz, Katy Schimert and Ricky Swallow, this concise volume examines the different ways these sculptors use drawing--both as a compliment to and a divergence from their artistic practice. In addition to a handsome plate section, it features short texts by each of the artists on the function of drawing in his or her work, condensed biographies and an insightful introductory essay by the Aspen Art Museum's Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
In these pages you will meet the children and teachers of the Fifteenth Street School, who collaborated during the 1960's to create an environment for self-directed learning. The voices of these children attest today, as they did five decades ago, to the resources and capacities of young people everywhere, and inspire hope for the future.I am excited about this book. Without a doubt, it reflects the interesting and beautiful way that Wilbur and Rachel worked with all the children at the Fifteenth Street School. --Paul Fusco, photographer, Magnum Photos, school parentAt one level, this is an interesting story about an innovative school, located at a particular time and place. Even more than t...