Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art

Pavel Buechler, Studio Schwitters, 2010

“Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art” features the work of over fifty artists and writers exploring the artistic possibilities of language. Presenting works from the 1960s to the present, the exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, installation, video and works on paper that raise questions about how we read, look at, hear, and process language today.

 

A major current underlying the exhibition argues that the field of literature known as “conceptual writing” can be seen as engaging in a provocative dialogue with the field of contemporary art, producing new insights into the meaning of both literature and art. Co-curated by Nora Burnett Abrams and Andrea Andersson, “Postscript” is the first exhibition to examine the work of conceptual writing, investigating the roots of the movement in the art of the 1960s and 70s and presenting contemporary examples of text-based art practices.

(Source: MCA Denver)

 

Museum Of Contemporary Art Denver, October 2012 – February 2013

http://mcadenver.org/postscript.php

 

The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, June – September 2013

http://www.thepowerplant.org/Exhibitions/2013/Summer/Postscript.aspx

 

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, March – September 2104

http://broadmuseum.msu.edu/exhibitions/postscript-writing-after-conceptual-art

 

Image: Pavel Büchler, Studio Schwitters, 2010