USFCAM Presents 鈥淟ife During Wartime: Art in the Age of the Coronavirus鈥� Online Exhibition
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
On Saturday, June 6, the USF Contemporary Art Museum, part of the USF Institute for
Research in Art in the College of The Arts, will launch its first major virtual exhibition, Life
During Wartime: Art in the Age of the Coronavirus.
It humbly engages a select company of international artists to respond to the overwhelming
realities of the crisis that has gripped the planet since March 5, the date the World
Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.
The exhibition takes full advantage of one of the few outlets artists still have鈥攖he
Internet. It aims to mobilize sentiment, thought and activity around art and its enduring
possibilities: its role as a conceptual catalyst, its ability to trigger ideas, stories,
conversations, emotions, feelings and mental states. Separately and together, each
artist contribution provides a picture of a planet in crisis, but also images of hope
and optimism in the face of a global emergency.
The exhibition will continue to evolve with the addition of new artists and materials. Life
During Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus is supported in part by The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Online Opening Celebration | Saturday, June 6, 2020 1-3pm EDT
Join online from the exhibition website at lifeduringwartimeexhibition.org
(Exhibition website opens 10am EDT; Zoom link will be live at 12:45pm EDT)
The opening celebration will be held virtually via Zoom on June 6 from 1-3pm EDT and
will feature an artist/curator talk, a virtual walk-through of the exhibition and
a public Q+A. Additional artist talks and events will be announced along the run of
the exhibition, as artist contributions are unveiled.
Participating artists include:
Marcos Agudelo, Diana Al-Hadid, Atelier Van Lieshout, Alberto Borea, Sebastiaan Bremer,
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Seth Cameron, Samantha Casolari, Rebecca Chamberlain, Jake
& Dinos Chapman, Patricia Cronin, Godfried Donkor, Dysturb, Zhao Gang, Rico Gatson,
Mark Thomas Gibson, Patrick Hamilton, Ellen Harvey, Yishai Jusidman, Deborah Kass,
Basil Kincaid, Glenda Le贸n, Matvey Levenstein, Cristina Lucas, Narsiso Martinez, Eva
and Franco Mattes, Richard Mosse, Angel Otero, Luis Manuel Otero Alc谩ntara, Edison
Pe帽afiel, Dagoberto Rodr铆guez, Anastasia Samoylova, Fernando S谩nchez Castillo, Guy
Richards Smit, Kiki Smith, Bosco Sodi, Tavares Strachan, Superflex, Sarah Sze, Jorge
Tacla, Newsha Tavakolian, Janaina Tsch盲pe, Spencer Tunick, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Kennedy
Yanko, Lisa Yuskavage.
In consideration of the fact that artistic expression has been significantly recontextualized
by the current pandemic, Life During Wartime will present artworks made before as
well as contributions made during the current period of quarantine. The exhibition
will feature artist contributions that are not limited exclusively to finished artworks,
but also include interviews, personal reflections, observations, texts, social media
posts and even playlists.
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About the Curator
Christian Viveros-Faun茅 (Santiago, 1965) has worked as a gallerist, art fair director, art critic and curator since 1994. He was awarded a USF Kennedy Family Visiting Fellowship in 2018, a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Grant for short-form arts writing in 2009, was named Art Critic in Residence at the Bronx Museum in 2011, and has lectured at Yale University, Pratt Institute, and Amsterdam鈥檚 Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Viveros-Faun茅 is Chief Critic for Artland and writes regularly for ArtReview and Sotheby鈥檚/Art Agency Partners鈥檚 in other words. He serves as Curator-at-Large at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum. He has curated numerous museum exhibitions around the world and is also the author of several books. His most recent, Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art, was published by David Zwirner Books in 2018.
哔咔漫画 Contemporary Art Museum
The 哔咔漫画 Contemporary Art Museum (USFCAM) organizes and presents
significant and investigative exhibitions of contemporary art from Florida, the United
States, and around the world, including Africa, Europe, and Latin America. Exhibitions
and educational programs are designed to introduce students, faculty, and the community
to current cultural trends. USFCAM also publishes relevant catalogues, schedules critically
important traveling exhibitions, and underwrites new projects by artists emerging
on national and international fronts. USFCAM maintains the university鈥檚 art collection,
comprising more than 5,000 art works.
The USF Contemporary Art Museum is recognized by the State of Florida as a major cultural
institution and receives funding through the State of Florida, Department of State,
Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National
Endowment for the Arts. The USF Contemporary Art Museum is accredited by the American
Alliance of Museums.
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