Donna Dennis and Rosemary Mayer while working as artist models for Raphael Soyer, ca 1972 © The Rosemary Mayer Estate, NY
Dear friends,
Donna Dennis was a close friend and companion of Rosemary Mayer. Today she will speak about their life and work in New York of the 1970s. The lecture Rosemary Mayer and Donna Dennis: Beginnings on the Cusp of the 1970s New York City starts at [removed]
1st of May is Sparda-Day at the Ludwig Forum. With free admission and an extensive programme, we will celebrate the beginning of May!
SAVE THE DATE: on May,7th and 8th, a symposium-like event will take place at the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the Ludwig Forum Aachen (Sun May 8th) as part of reboot: responsiveness. The programme will follow asap!
See you at the Ludwig Forum!
Donna Dennis. Photo: private
Lecture with Donna Dennis
The American artists Rosemary Mayer and Donna Dennis became best friends when chance – and their individual connections to the New York poetry world – brought them to live/work spaces a block from one another in New York’s Little Italy around 1970. It was the most formative time in their young lives as artists: Inviting each other over for dinner and a look, when a new work was finished, was like a celebration and the best kind of [removed];In her lecture “Rosemary Mayer and Donna Dennis: Beginnings on the Cusp of the 1970s New York City”, Donna Dennis attempts to create a sense of what it was like to be young women artists just starting out in downtown New York in the heady, challenging early days of the 1970s. As a basis for this lecture serve excerpts from the journals, which Rosemary Mayer and Donna Dennis both used as a primary source for shaping their works, along with images of their work and their friends, especially those in their feminist consciousness-raising [removed];
Thu [removed], [removed] pm
Museum admission only
Donna Dennis is known for her installations inspired by vernacular architecture, urban and rural: “Ship and Dock/Nights and Days or The Gazer”, at Lesley Heller Gallery, New York (2018), “Coney Night Maze”, Neuberger Museum (2013), “BLUE BRIDGE/red shift”, SculptureCenter (1993) “Deep Station”, Brooklyn Museum (1987) “Tourist Cabins on Park Avenue” (2007). Dennis has collaborated with poets Anne Waldman, Kenward Elmslie, Ted Berrigan and Daniel Wolff. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Art Museum, the Walker Art Center, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Martin Z. Margulies Collection. Recipient of many grants and awards, she has permanent public art commissions in New York and Boston. After decades in New York City, she currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley.
Sparda-Day at Ludwig Forum Aachen
In order to give as many people as possible access to contemporary art, the Sparda-Bank West Foundation regularly organises action days in museums. On Sparda-Day, admission is free for all visitors. An extensive accompanying programme offers guided tours and workshops for children, young people and adults.
Sun [removed], 10 [removed] to 5 [removed]
Free admission!
The programme:
10am to 4pm One Day in May
Open workshop for families and friends
In the work of US-artist Rosemary Mayer, not everything had to last for eternity. She celebrated the moment and liked to create connections between people. Therefore, she invited others to actively participate in her art.
With big balloons, pens and paint, ribbons and lots of ingenuity, this day in May will be a colourful one.
11am / 1pm / 4pm Guided Family tours
12am Guided tour Geometry and Flowers with curator Holger Otten
4pm Guided tour Rosemary Mayer. Ways of Attaching with Director Eva Birkenstock
Café with snacks, coffee and cake
graphic desin: Sean Yendrys
Asynchronicity – a symposium-like-gathering
A two-day symposium-like gathering
at the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the Ludwig Forum in Aachen
hosted by artist Cally Spooner
Sat May 7, at the Kölnischer Kunstverein
Sun May 8, at the Ludwig Forum Aachen
8:59am to 6pm daily
Admission free!
Asynchronicity is part of reboot: responsiveness.
Kölnischer Kunstverein and Ludwig Forum Aachen jointly present reboot: – a collaborative, cyclical, anti-racist and queer-feminist dialogue between performative and research-based practices.
reboot: Conceived by Eva Birkenstock, Nikola Dietrich and Viktor Neumann.
Core Collective: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Gürsoy Doğtaş, Klara Lidén, Ewa Majewska, Rory Pilgrim, Cally Spooner, and Mariana [removed] design by Sean Yendrys
More information will follow soon.
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