[spectre] Chelsea Art Museum: We Are The World

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We Are The World
Chelsea Art Museum

June 25 – July 31, 2004

Opening Reception
Friday, June 25, 6 – 8 pm

Curated by Elga Wimmer (Austria/USA)

Artists:

Mladen Bizumic (Yugoslavia/New Zealand), Daniel Blaufuks 
(Portugal/Germany), Jonathan Calm (USA), Timur Celikdag 
(Turkey/Germany), Oksun Kim (Korea), Olga Kisseleva (Russia/France), 
Fiorenza Menini (France/Italy), Lee Mingwei (Taiwan/USA), Ingrid Mwangi 
(Kenya/Germany), Jun Nguyen - Hatsushiba (Japan/Vietnam), Patricia 
Piccinini (Australia), Mika Rottenberg (Israel/USA), Alessandra 
Sanguinetti (Argentina/USA), Jemima Stehli (Australia/Great Britain), 
Jun Yang (China/Austria), Kimiko Yoshida (Japan/France).

“A Picture Tells a Thousand Stories” is an old cliché, albeit timeless 
and certainly applicable to this group of young artists from all over 
the world.

Whether exploring and documenting neighborhoods and histories as an 
ongoing project by inviting local tour guides  (“So far, so close...” 
(2003), projection and architectural installation by Olga Kisseleva, 
Russia), probing and investigating masculinity and personal style of 
men of the artist’s native country (“Istanbul” (2002), photographic 
series by Timur Celikday, Turkey), young protagonist defining their 
place in forgotten suburbs and lost coastal towns (“Sandman”, (2002), 
photographic series and film by Patricia Piccinini, Australia), 
pointing to political disruptions in past and present (“Happy New Year 
Memorial Project Vietnam II” (2003), film by Jun Nguyen – Hatsushiba, 
Japan/Vietnam), interpreting ancestral customs and breaking them by 
becoming a modern – day nomad, vagabond, fugitive (“Marry Me” (2003), 
photographic series by Kimiko Yoshida, Japan), “writing” a diary by 
means of rescuing this memory of an emotional and poetic significance 
from daily life (“Thirty - One Stories”(2003), photographic series and 
video by Daniel Blaufuks, Portugal).

The fascinating link between all these young artists is that neither 
one of them lives anymore (or only in a small part) in their native 
countries, they all have multi-national backgrounds –and each of them 
tries to deal with past and present by telling stories (realistic and 
fictional) that reveal their auxieties, hopes, cultural heritage, 
coming to terms with social and political tensions, and last but not 
least their dealing with being the first true generation of “global 
kids”.

More information — call Chelsea Art Museum: 212-255-0719 ext. 119

Closed Saturdays in July