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"Brave New Worlds" at Walker Art Center Minneapolis US

Work by 24 Artists from 17 Countries on View October
4-February 17

Assessing the current state of international art and
its political consciousness, the Walker Art Center
exhibition Brave New Worlds, on view October 4,
2007?February 17, 2008, assembles work by 24 artists
from 17 countries who are exploring, with sharpened
awareness, the many ways we know, experience, and
dream about the world. The exhibition?s title,
borrowed from Aldous Huxley?s 1932 novel Brave New
World, evokes an attractive utopian proposition when
written in the plural sense in an attempt to frame the
art of today beyond glib expressions of globalism and
to stress its multiplicity of voices, artistic
practices, and visions. 

Organized by Walker curators Doryun Chong and Yasmil
Raymond, the exhibition features approximately 70
works by Armando Andrade Tudela, Yto Barrada, Yael
Bartana, Mark Bradford, Fernando Bryce, Mircea Cantor,
Cao Fei, Banu Cennetoglu, Gimhongsok, Runa Islam,
Gabriel Kuri, Jorge Macchi, Josephine Meckseper,
Zwelethu Mthethwa, Noguchi Rika, Dan Perjovschi, Lia
Perjovschi, Walid Raad, Tomas Saraceno, Sean Snyder,
Erik van Lieshout, Haegue Yang, Zheng Guogu, and Artur
Zmijewski. (Artist bios follow.) 

On view will be painting, drawing, sculpture,
photography, video, film, and installation dating from
1995 to the present. 

In an era characterized by the unraveling of a unified
world order, it?s an act of bravery to imagine a world
fundamentally different. In response, rather than
creating ?political art,? the artists represented in
Brave New Worlds collectively call for a return to the
?world? as subject matter, philosophical topic, and
object of personal concerns and affections with work
that is resonant and profound. 

Accompanying the exhibition is a 300-page illustrated
catalogue containing essays by Chong and Raymond. The
publication includes six ?correspondent? essays,
inspired by newspaper reports and penned by a group of
young art historians, critics, and curators from
around the world: Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna
(Spain), Cecilia Brunson (Chile), Hu Fang (China),
Tone Hansen (Norway), Mihnea Mircan (Romania), and
José Roca (Colombia). A selection of recent texts by
philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, Booker prize-winner
and activist Arundhati Roy, and award-winning war
correspondent Janine di Giovanni will provide
additional perspectives on global affairs of the past
decade.

 Also featured will be illustrated artist entries as
well as an insert created by Bucharest-based
participating artist Lia Perjovschi entitled
Subjective Art History from Modernism to Today. 



The catalogue is distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art
Publishers, Inc., 155 Sixth Avenue, Second Floor, New
York, NY 10013, 800.338.2665 (phone), 212.627.9484
(fax), and is available at the Walker Art Center Shop,
612.375.7638 (phone), 612.375.7565 (fax). ISBN
0-935640-89-4. $39.95 ($35.96 Walker members). 



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