Ending: Hard Light September 3, 2004

Hard Light
June 27, 2004 to September 4, 2004

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Hard Light, a group exhibition featuring works by internationally renowned artists Doug Aitken, Fischli/Weiss, Carsten Höller, Chris Marker, Bruce Nauman, Ugo Rondinone, Ed Ruscha, and Lawrence Weiner.

The co-curatorial effort of P.S.1 Chief Curator Klaus Biesenbach and artist Doug Aitken, Hard Light brings together works by nine artists who engage in a range of processes of narrative construction. Among other similarities, the works in this exhibition all explore particular qualities of light, or ?hard light? (a film/photography term used to describe a lighting situation that casts a sharp, clearly defined shadow), that contribute to the development of fragmented, or broken, ?ambient? narratives.

The exhibition will include Doug Aitken?s recent monumental video installation Interiors (2002), large-scale photographs from Fischli/Weiss? Airport series (1988-1998); Atomium Phi (2004), a light-based sculpture by Carsten Höller, preparatory materials (storyboards, photographs, notes and drawings) for Chris Marker?s legendary 1962 film La Jetée, Bruce Nauman?s celebrated Green Light Corridor (1970), a large photography and sound installation, Sleep (1999), by Ugo Rondinone, as well as preparatory materials for Ed Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner?s 1978 book, Hard Light.

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