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Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery
Panel 2: Nothing Better Than a Touch of Ecology and Catastrophe to Unite the Social Classes
The exhibition will be open to the public 9/15 - 11/6 at the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall (Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 12pm-6pm)
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Drawing from architecture, design and popular culture, Panel 2: "Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes..." continues Martin Beck's interest in exhibitions as a medium and addresses questions of historicity, referentiality and authorship. The show features works in different media, each pointing to distinct yet interwoven historical narratives that coalesce around the terms "ecology" and "panel" as display or discussion.
The show's subtitle quotes from a statement written by Jean Baudrillard for the French Group at the 1970 International Design Conference in Aspen. Since its inception in the 1950s, the conference has brought together designers, architects, and business leaders to discuss the relations between design and industrial production. Baudrillard's statement questioned the conference's embrace of ecological issues. The publication on the conference history, The Aspen Papers, was designed by Ivan Chermayeff of the seminal design firm Chermayeff & Geismar. The illustrations included the leaf of the Aspen tree that became an important signifier in Panel 2.
Martin Beck is a New York based artist whose conceptually driven exhibitions and projects engage questions of authorship and historicity and often draw from the fields of architecture, design and popular culture. Solo exhibitions include About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe, Casco, Utrecht (2007), The details are not the details, Orchard Gallery, New York (2007), an Exhibit viewed played populated, Grazer Kunstverein (2003) and, in collaboration with Julie Ault, Installation, Secession, Vienna (2006). Beck is the author of half modern, half something else (2003) and, with Julie Ault, of Critical Condition: Ausgewhlte Texte im Dialog (2003). He is also a contributor to the Vienna-based Springerin magazine. Currently Beck holds a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
