Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative

The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative is a five-year program, supported by Swiss bank UBS in which the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation identifies and works with artists, curators and educators from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa to expand its reach in the international art world. For each of the three phases of the project, the museum invites one curator from the chosen region to the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York City for a two-year curatorial residency, where he or she works with a team of Guggenheim staff to identify new artworks that reflect the range of talents in their parts of the world. The resident curators organize international touring exhibitions that highlight these artworks and help organize educational activities.[1][2] The Foundation acquires these artworks for its permanent collection and includes them as the focus of exhibitions that open at the museum in New York and subsequently travel to two other cultural institutions or other venues around the world. The Foundation supplements the exhibitions with a series of public and online programs, and supports cross-cultural exchange and collaboration between staff members of the institutions hosting the exhibitions.[3][4][5] UBS is reportedly contributing more than $40 million to the project to pay for its activities and the art acquisitions.[6] Foundation director Richard Armstrong commented: "We are hoping to challenge our Western-centric view of art history."[1]

Phase 1: South and Southeast Asia

The first exhibition, No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia is curated by June Yap.[7] Yap has worked for six years in the curatorial departments of modern and contemporary art museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum.[8] She gathered art from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Bangladesh and India for No Country. The exhibition was shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2013,[9] the Asia Society Hong Kong Centre from October 2013 to February 2014,[10] and Singapore's Centre for Contemporary Art from May to July 2014.[11]

In this show, the artists featured are as follows:[12]

  • Bani Abidi
  • Reza Afisina
  • Khadim Ali
  • Poklong Anading
  • Aung Myint
  • Simryn Gill
  • Sheela Gowda
  • Shilpa Gupta
  • Ho Tzu Nyen

Phase 2: Latin America

The second exhibition of the project, Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, focuses on art from Latin America[13] and is curated by Pablo León de la Barra.[14] On display are works by 40 artists representing 15 countries in Latin America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.[15] The artworks are organized around five themes: Conceptualism and its Legacies, Tropicologies, Political Activism, Modernism and its Failures, and Participation/Emancipation.[16] The show opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on June 13, 2014 and is scheduled to run through October 1, 2014. The exhibition is then expected to travel to the Museo Jumex in Mexico City.[17]

In this show, the artists featured are as follows:[18]

In conjunction with Under the Same Sun, Alfredo Jaar's A Logo for America (1987), an animation for an electronic billboard in Times Square, was shown again in Times Square in August 2014 as part of Times Square Alliance's "Midnight Moments" series.[19]

Phase 3: Middle East and Northern Africa

The third phase of the project is expected to focus on the Middle East and North Africa.[1] In January 2015, Sara Raza was announced as the third and final curator for the project.[20]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Vogel, Carol. "Guggenheim Project Challenges 'Western-Centric View'", The New York Times, April 11, 2012
  2. ↑ "Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative: Richard Armstrong Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation", Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, April 12, 2012, accessed May 8, 2012
  3. ↑ Zhang, Kathy. "Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative", ArtAsiaPacific magazine, April 24, 2012
  4. ↑ Official project webpage, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, accessed August 16, 2012
  5. ↑ Yang, Christina. "An Educator's Reflections on Global Museum Work". blogs.guggenheim.org. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  6. ↑ Russeth, Andrew. "Guggenheim, UBS Unite for Global Art Initiative Focused on 'Emerging Markets'", GalleristNY.com, New York Observer, April 2012
  7. ↑ Cotter, Holland (21 February 2013). "Acquired Tastes of Asian Art ‘No Country,’ New Asian Art at the Guggenheim". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  8. ↑ Chayka, Kyle. "MAP Quest: Singaporean Curator June Yap on the Guggenheim's Intrepid New UBS-Backed Non-Western Art Initiative", BLOUINARTINFO.com, April 12, 2012
  9. ↑ "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia". guggenheim.org. Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  10. ↑ "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia". asiasociety.org. Asia Society. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  11. ↑ Shetty, Deepika (13 March 2014). "Artist Tang Da Wu is the only Singaporean with works in Guggenheim show". The Straits Times. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  12. ↑ South/Southeast Asia: Artists, Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, accessed April 4, 2014
  13. ↑ Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, Latin America
  14. ↑ Russeth, Andrew (1 August 2013). "Guggenheim’s UBS Map Global Art Initiative Taps Pablo León de la Barra as Curator for Latin America". Gallerist. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  15. ↑ Pollack, Maika (18 June 2014). "‘Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today’ at the Guggenheim". Gallerist. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  16. ↑ "‘Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today’ opens at the Guggenheim". Art Daily. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  17. ↑ Pollack, Maika (13 June 2014). "‘Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today’ at the Guggenheim". Gallerist. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  18. ↑ Latin America: Artists, Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, accessed July 16, 2014
  19. ↑ Martinez, Alana. "Here’s All the Public Art Happening This Summer in Times Square", Blouin Artfino, May 29, 2014
  20. ↑ Seaman, Anna (1 February 2015). "Sara Raza’s Guggenheim post turns the focus on regional art". The National. Retrieved 10 April 2015.

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