| Description | Opening Reception: Monday, November 24, 5:00-8:00pm
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Laziness is the absence of movement and thought, dumb time - total amnesia. It is also indifference, staring at nothing, non-activity, impotence. It is sheer stupidity, a time of pain, futile concentration. Those virtues of laziness are important factors in art. Knowing about laziness is not enough, it must be practiced and perfected.
– Mladin Stilinovich, “Praise of Laziness,” 1993
The aperture on the camera Man Ray used for “Dust Breeding” (1920) is said to have been left open the precise amount of time it took him and Marcel Duchamp to have a leisurely lunch. The resulting photograph—capturing a section of Duchamp’s “Large Glass” (1915-1923) lying in an unfinished state and gathering dust—is the index for Idleness, a new exhibition opening at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery on November 24, 2014. Idleness is the second Showroom program as part of Factory—a series of displays, labor demonstrations, motivational speeches, quality controls, and new product launches exploring the question, “Is a school a factory?” The dialectical counterpoint to Industry—the first exhibition in the series, which celebrated traditional, industrious studio practices, and notions of labor from Auguste Rodin to El Anatsui—Idleness presents artists who locate the virtues of their practice in moments of pause, idleness, daydreaming, non-studio-time, convalescence, or spending time with friends.With Art and Calls for Indolence by:
Gretchen Bennett, Matt Browning, Tacita Dean, Claire Fontaine, Marcel Duchamp, Ripple Fang, Anne Fenton, Tom Marioni, Man Ray, Bertrand Russell, Edwin Shoemaker, Nicholas Bower Simpson, Mladen Stilinović, Michael Van Horn, Andy Warhol, and others. Additional information about this exhibition may be found in this press release. Funding for Idleness is provided by The Friends of Jacob Lawrence Gallery and the Nebula Project. Image credit: Artist at Work by Mladen Stilinović, 1978. Photograph from a series. Courtesy of the artist. |
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