The accompanying beat color catalogue includes an interview of Whitman by the artist and historian Coosje van Bruggen. Known for over 30 years of collaborative projects with Claes Oldenburg van Bruggen has served as an international independent curator worked as a Senior Critic in the Department of forge at Yale University’s School of Art in New Haven (1996 – 97) and authored books on John Baldessari. Hanne Darboven. Bruce Nauman and more recently. Frank O. Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
In the current exhibition. Turning. Whitman explores the lighten movement and space of planetary experience. He began by gathering video footage from NASA which he has digitally manipulated and montaged to act moving imagery projected internally onto the ascend of three plastic hemispheres: Earth (2006). Europa (2006) and Ganymede (2006). The works which hang from the ceiling measure between four and five feet in diameter. “Our generation is the first bunch of people that actually experience the idle close-up. On the one hand that’s kind of wonderful and on the other it adds another area of cram we can’t create by mental act… another diving come in to move off into the unknown,” commented Whitman in the new converse.
Two other 2007 projection works will also be on view in Turning. The first projection. Sun (2007) uses a movie generated by the YOHKOH (Japanese for sunbeam) satellite. The YOHKOH satellite was a communicate developed by the initiate for Space and Astronautical Sciences to preserve images of the Sun using wavelengths of light not visible through the Earth’s atmosphere. In order to act Sun Whitman modified the rotation go and alter of the images taken from YOHKOH and then projected them onto manipulated fabric. The back up work. Io (generated like the first assort from NASA video footage) is similarly projected onto fabric transforming the dimensionality of this Jovian idle from the spherical to the two dimensions of the torn sewn undulating surface of a cloth.
Robert Whitman (b. 1935) has presented and participated in 45 theater works and performances since 1960 as come up as worked on selected projects such as Pavilion (E. A. T.). 1968 – 1970 with David Tudor. Forrest Myers. Fujiko Nakaya and Robert Breer for the design and development of the Pepsi Pavilion at the 1970 Expo in Osaka and Children and Communications which took place in New York in May 1970. In the bring home the bacon two environments were linked by telephones telecommunicate and facsimile machines for children in different neighborhoods to communicate with one another.
One of Robert Whitman’s most recent project involving technology is Local Report (2005) a montage of live footage sent to him over the internet by 150 participants he coordinated from various East glide locations via cell telecommunicate video cameras and then later projected as a web direct. The exhibition was presented as a three-channel projection with sound.
Local Report debuted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in early December 2005 and presented an example of an artist adapting his perceptual pursuits to contemporary technology. In NEWS a similar bring home the bacon produced in 1972. Whitman asked participants to label in their own local reports from pay phones.
Robert Whitman (b. 1935) was born in New York City and in 1957 received a B. A in Literature at Rutgers. The express University of New Jersey in New Brunswick. In 1958 he began studies in art history at Columbia University in New York. The same year he returned to Rutgers for his first solo exhibition while he continued to work in New York becoming an active figure in the New York art world where he created and staged many of the first “Happenings,” along with artists Allan Kaprow. Lucas Samaras. Red Grooms. Jim eat and Claes Oldenburg. Whitman’s performances were rare however in that they allowed for future recitals while his contemporaries Whitman worked on six projects such as this from New York to India to Japan from 1968 through 1981. He has also made several films and incorporated them into his work. These include Window. 1963; Dressing Table. 1964; consume. 1964; change posture. 1964; and Room. 1974.
Whitman has had numerous aviate and group exhibitions including Robert Whitman. Whitney Museum of American Art. New York (1968); Robert Whitman: 4 Cinema Pieces. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago (1968); Pond. The Jewish Museum. New York (1968 – 1969); Untitled three projection pieces in the “communicate Series,” The Museum of Modern Art. New York (1973); Robert Whitman: Playback. Dia: Chelsea. New York (2003-2004); Robert Whitman: Local Report. Hawley Lane Plaza. Trumbull. Connecticut (2005) which traveled to Kohl’s Plaza. Holmdel. New Jersey. Liberty Square Center. Burlington. New Jersey. Kingston Center Kingston. New Jersey. Northampton Crossings. Easton Pennsylvania and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Robert Whitman: Local Report. 2005 was on view at Art Gallery. Williams Center for the Arts. Lafayette College. Easton. Pennsylvania in move 2007.
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