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About the Exhibition
Opening reception: Wednesday,
September 4, 6 - 9 pm
Gallery talk: Wednesday, September 4, 4:30 pm
The Institute of Contemporary Art opens its new season with the first
East Coast showing of the popular exhibition Pictures, Patents, Monkeys,
and More...On Collecting, organized and circulated by Independent
Curators International (ICI).
The opening reception, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled
for Wednesday, September 4, 2002 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. An exhibition walkthrough
will take place on September 4, 2002 at 4:30 pm with ICA Senior Curator
Ingrid Schaffner; Penn student (C '04), writer and collector Arthur Bochner;
and Dr. David P. Silverman, the Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr. Professor of
Egyptology and Curator-in-Charge of the Egyptian Section of the University
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The motives for collecting are widely compelling: constructing memory,
building knowledge, keeping stuff. This exhibition features four different
collections to pose questions about collecting in general. Specifically,
it looks at collecting as both imagery and process in contemporary art.
On view are selections from: the contemporary art collection of the Robert
J. Shiffler Foundation, 19th century patent models from the Smithsonian
Institution, a private collection of vintage sock monkeys, and exclusively
at ICA, Egyptian antiquities from the University of Pennsylvania Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology.
This is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent
Curators International (ICI), NY, a non-profit traveling exhibition service
specializing in contemporary art. Guest curator for the exhibition is
ICA's Senior Curator, Ingrid Schaffner, with assistance at the current
venue (ICA) from Dr. David P. Silverman, the Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr.
Professor of Egyptology and Curator-in-Charge of the Egyptian Section
of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 72-page illustrated catalogue with
essays by Schaffner, psychoanalyst Werner Muensterberger, and artist Fred
Wilson.
ICA acknowledges the generous support of Stephen
R. Weber (CHE '60). Additional support has been provided by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, I. J. Feldman Foundation, Inc., Seymour
Finkelstein (W46), The Dietrich Foundation Inc., the Overseers Board for
the Institute of Contemporary Art, friends and members of ICA, and the
University of Pennsylvania. (Information complete as of 7/31/02.)
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