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On Louise Nevelson

A Conversation Between Cecilia Alemani & Julia Bryan-Wilson

Wednesday, Sep 7
6:30 PM
540 West 25th Street
New York

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On Louise Nevelson:
A Conversation Between Cecilia Alemani & Julia Bryan-Wilson

Wednesday, Sep 7
6:30 PM
540 West 25th Street
New York

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To mark the final days of the exhibition Louise Nevelson: Persistence at the historic Procuratie Vecchie in Venice, Pace presents a conversation between exhibition curator Julia Bryan-Wilson and Cecilia Alemani, Curator of the 59th Biennale di Venezia.

An official Collateral Event of La Biennale, Persistence celebrates the 60th anniversary of Nevelson’s representation of the United States in the American Pavilion. It also coincides with the inclusion of the artist’s monumental 1968 sculpture, Homage to the Universe, in the Arsenale portion of Alemani’s main exhibition for La Biennale. In this talk, Alemani and Bryan-Wilson will discuss Nevelson’s inclusion in both exhibitions, and the broader significance of the artist’s work today. A pioneer of installation and environmental sculpture, Nevelson remains one of the key figures of twentieth-century American abstraction and has been represented by Pace Gallery since 1962. The program will be moderated by Oliver Shultz, Curatorial Director at Pace.

Cecilia Alemani

Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York. Currently, she is the Artistic Director of the 59th International Art Exhibition (2022) at the Venice Biennale. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York. In 2018, Alemani served as Artistic Director of the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires. In 2017, she curated the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Julia Bryan-Wilson

Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Contemporary Art and LBGTQ Art History at Columbia University and Adjunct Curator at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo. She curated Louise Nevelson: Persistence, an official collateral event of the 59th Venice Biennale and her book on Nevelson is forthcoming in 2023 from Yale University Press. Her most recent book Fray: Art and Textile Politics was published in 2017 and was awarded the ASAP Book Prize, the Frank Jewett Mather Award, and the Robert Motherwell Book Award.