Softbound
2007 · New York
by Whitman, Robert and Coosje Van Bruggen
New York: PaceWildenstein, 2007. Softbound. VG. Color illustrated dark wraps. 96 pp. with 70 color plates. Includes a DVD in a front folding pocket. Includes a short interview with the artist by Coosje Van Bruggen. Features 6 works or installations. Robert Whitman: Turning features three globes and two video projections from 2006 and 2007.
NEW YORK, August 24, 2007—PaceWildenstein is pleased to present a new series of works by Robert Whitman on view from September 7 through September 29, 2007 at 534 West 25th Street in New York City. Robert Whitman: Turning features three globes and two video projections from 2006 and 2007. The artist will be present at a public reception held on Thursday, September 6th from 6-8 p.m.
The accompanying full 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 Sculpture 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 light, movement, and space of planetary experience. He began by gathering video footage from NASA which he has digitally manipulated and montaged to create moving imagery projected internally onto the surface 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 know the moon close-up. On the one hand that's kind of wonderful and on the other it adds another area of stuff we can't imagine.... another diving board to jump off into the unknown," commented Whitman in the new interview. (Inventory #: 104670)
NEW YORK, August 24, 2007—PaceWildenstein is pleased to present a new series of works by Robert Whitman on view from September 7 through September 29, 2007 at 534 West 25th Street in New York City. Robert Whitman: Turning features three globes and two video projections from 2006 and 2007. The artist will be present at a public reception held on Thursday, September 6th from 6-8 p.m.
The accompanying full 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 Sculpture 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 light, movement, and space of planetary experience. He began by gathering video footage from NASA which he has digitally manipulated and montaged to create moving imagery projected internally onto the surface 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 know the moon close-up. On the one hand that's kind of wonderful and on the other it adds another area of stuff we can't imagine.... another diving board to jump off into the unknown," commented Whitman in the new interview. (Inventory #: 104670)