Glenda León La Lluvia The Rain 2015 Monotipo, crayón y foto-grabado sobre papel Bunkoshi 60 g Monothype, crayon and photo gravure on Bunkoshi paper 60 g
Every sound is a shape of time: selections from PAMM’s Collection is organized by PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans with PAMM Curatorial Assistant Fabiana A. Sotillo. Participating artists include Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alfredo Jaar, Ellsworth Kelly, Glenda León, Helen Frankenthaler, Jennie C. Jones, Jules Olitski, Julie Mehretu, Lawrence Weiner, Luis Camnitzer, Lydia Okumura, Mark Bradford, Morris Louis, Nicole Cherubini, Richard Serra, Richard Dupont, and Robert Morris.
Adler Guerrier, Untitled (…whispered intelligence lurking in the leaves; Painted Bunting), 2020-2024. Photo collage, 71 1/2 x 46 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Marisa Newman Projects.
Folding Suns connects artists from the Western New York Region with those from Puerto Rico and the American South; it poses sun and water as real and metaphorical binding agents across geography, time, and identity.
Curated by: Pablo Guardiola
Pablo Guardiola is a visual artist. His work points to different modes of narration and how these are perceived and understood. Recently he curated with Yina Jiménez Suriel, one month after being known in that island (ways of working in the Caribbean). He is co-director of Beta-Local, an arts non-profit dedicated to support and promote contemporary art practices and aesthetic thought in Puerto Rico.
Featured Artists:
Genesis Baez Chango4 Claudia Caremi Adler Guerrier Gregory Halpern Ahndraya Parlato Silas Rubeck Paul B. Thulin
The Guggenheim Bilbao was hardly the first iconic building, but it was the first to be credited with a measurable economic spin-off. And while that temporarily elevated the status of architects to near deities, it proved detrimental in the long run. After the Guggenheim, architecture was never quite the same. A single building had defied all expectation, only for expectations to defy all of architecture ever since. Economic success became the measure of architecture’s quality, to which architecture, in turn, had no choice but to apply itself. Architecture found itself in debt to promises it didn’t make and ultimately can’t fulfill. After Bilbao, ambitious museum projects could only fail. And they did.
The specificity of place and terms that do the work of aggregation like ‘landscape’ and ‘garden’ and ‘yard’ give way to radical individualization. Here, we spy flowers as if awakened protagonists, independent of their role in a ‘scenic’ and ‘idyllic’ place. In the dark, they are only themselves.
