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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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