We are pleased to announce the extension of “Bruce Nauman: Prints 1971-1981” and “Charlemagne Palestine: CcornUuoOrphanosS: New Publications”. The exhibition will remain on view through March 2nd, 2019.
This exhibition of early prints by Bruce Nauman takes it’s cue from “Disappearing Acts”, Nauman’s third major career survey to date which opened at MoMA, MoMA PS1 in Queens and also at the Schaulager museum near Basel, Switzerland in October. Including prints produced by the gallery and printshop in close collaboration with the artist, the works selected for the exhibition represent the breadth of Cirrus’ creative relationship with Nauman and aims to provide a time-capsule of his early-on investment in language, wordplay, and in printmaking.
Also on view are four new publications by American composer, performer, visual, video, and installation artist Charlemagne Palestine. The publications depict composite and single installation images taken from Palestine’s exhibition titled: “CCORNUUOORPHANOSSCCOPIAEE AANORPHANSSHHORNOFFPLENTYYY”, mounted at 356 S. Mission Road last year. Funded in part by the Mike Kelley Foundation, the exhibition comprised at least 18,000 individual stuffed animals, a Bösendorfer piano, countless disco balls, and was Palestine’s largest and most ambitious installation to date, filling 356 S. Mission for its final exhibition before the space closed permanently in 2018. Originally trained to be a cantor, Charlemagne Palestine is perhaps best known for his intensely performed piano works that he plays surrounded by emblematic objects – famously masses of teddy bears which he regards as shamanic representations of the soul.
