CARTIN COLLECTION

again serial practices in contemporary art curated by Ash Anderson & Steven Holmes Saturday September 22 to Sunday December 30, 2007 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 600 Main Street, Hartford CT 860.278.2670 The Cartin Collection joins with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in presenting *again: serial practices in contemporary art. again* features work by fifteen artists drawn from a 2004 gift of 125 photographs to the Wadsworth Atheneum from Mickey Cartin, together with works from the Cartin Collection. It investigates artists’ use of duplication and repetition to explore single subjects or ideas. International and intergenerational in scope, the artists included in this exhibition come from diverse backgrounds as practitioners. Most of these artists would identify themselves as photographers, but the exhibition also includes painting, single-channel video, installation and books. Works by On Kawara, Ed Ruscha, Hans-Peter Feldmann and Jonathan Monk anchor the central premise of again by looking at serial processes as they are articulated across media, culture, and the last 35 years of contemporary art. Works by Arnold Odermatt, Lucinda Devlin, Joe Ovelman, Frank Breuer and Malik Sidibe evoke the ‘documentary’ tradition in photography, the classic use of the camera to record and order subjects as varied as execution chambers, industrial parks, car crashes or passersby. This work draws its power from repetition rather than selection, in that the more examples of a subject that one can record, the less important any individual image becomes within the whole. Meaning is accumulated, accrued, aggregated. Works by artists such as Spencer Finch or Charles Sandison address time itself, allowing one to perceive what otherwise would remain real, but difficult to perceive. In each work within the exhibition, the word *again* resonates- sometimes quietly as in the case of the small paintings by Cecilia Edefalk, sometimes with wit, as in the case of Jonathan Monk, and sometimes, in the case of On Kawara, with exquisite faithfulness.
		Roger Ballen, Dresie and Casie, twins, Western Transvaal, 1993, selenium toned gelatin silver print, 28 in. x 28 in. (71.12 cm x 71.12 cm). Gift of Janice and Mickey Cartin to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2004.

		artist list Roger Ballen, Frank Breuer, Lucinda Devlin, Cecilia Edefalk, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Spencer Finch, On Kawara, Jonathan Monk, Arnold Odermatt, Joe Ovelman, Ed Ruscha, Charles Sandison, Malick Sidibé, Miroslav Tichy, and Eugene Von Bruenchenhein.

		public programming Thursday September 27, 7:00pm Opening Reception and A Conversation with Mickey Cartin and Betsy Mankin Kornhauser In the Avery Theater at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Free to the public. Cash bar. Friday September 28, noon The Dana Engstrom DeLoach Gallery Talk at the Wadsworth Atheneum with *again* curators Ash Anderson and Steven Holmes. Free with museum admission. Thursday November 1, 6pm Art after Hours at the Wadsworth Atheneum Gallery Talk with again curators Ash Anderson and Steven Holmes Free with admission to museum (5$ for Art After Hours Events).