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Planet of Sound: A selective History of Art and Rock and Roll Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 September 29, 2007 - January 6, 2008
Sympathy for
the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967
examines the dynamic historical relationship between rock music and
contemporary visual art, a relationship that stretches across
continental, generational, and cultural boundaries. Artists from the
1960s to the present have maintained a strong connection to rock music,
roughly beginning with the Andy Warhol-produced album The
Velvet Underground and Nico
in 1967. Since then, artists such as Rita Ackermann, Tony Oursler, and
Raymond Pettibon have created visual materials for rock bands, while
many noted rock musicians and bands have emerged from art schools.
Sympathy
for the Devil will
be the most serious and comprehensive look at the intimate and inspired
relationship between the visual arts and rock and roll culture to date,
charting their intersection through the presentation of works of art.
The exhibition will primarily be organized according to different
urban/geographic locations in recognition of the significant role that
particular places have had for the development of this crossover at
particular times (for example, the downtown New York and
Dusseldorf/Cologne cultural scenes of the late 1970s and early 1980s,
or the larger global presence of art and rock music in recent years.) A
comprehensive, 288-page catalogue with texts by Diedrich Diedrichsen,
Anthony Elms, Dan Graham, Richard Hell, Mike Kelley, Robert Nickas,
Simon Reynolds, and Jan Tumlir will be published and several
performances will be held in conjunction with the exhibition.
Artists
currently under consideration include: Rita Ackermann, Cory Arcangel,
Art & Language and The Red Krayola, assume vivid astro focus,
Phyllis Baldino, Pedro Bell, Slater Bradley, Captain Beefheart and the
Magic Band, Steven Claydon, Bjorn Copeland, Jeremy Deller, Destroy All
Monsters Collective (Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, and Jim Shaw), Jim Drain,
Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Daniel Guzman, Richard
Hamilton, Jay Heikes, Richard Kern, Scott King, Jutta Koether, Jim
Lambie, Mark Leckey, Linder, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, Dave
Muller, Ronald Nameth, Yoshitomo Nara, Colin Newman, Tony Oursler,
Steven Parrino, Ed Paschke, Adam Pendleton, Raymond Pettibon, Jack
Pierson, Richard Prince, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Aida Ruilova,
Savage Pencil, Peter Saville, Melanie Schiff, Jim Shaw, Thaddeus
Strode, Mika Tajima/New Humans, Tony Tasset, Mungo Thomson, Throbbing
Gristle, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, Marnie Weber, Karl Wirsum,
Workshop, and Thomas Zipp. The exhibition will also feature
opportunities for the presentation of a broad range of music informed
by this relationship within the context of the exhibition.
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 is organized
by Dominic Molon, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. It will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art, North
Miami, in April 2008.
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