{"id":487,"date":"2008-01-25T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/01\/25\/blown-awaykrannert-art-museumchicagoopens-to-nite\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T17:24:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T22:24:28","slug":"blown-awaykrannert-art-museumchicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/01\/25\/blown-awaykrannert-art-museumchicago\/","title":{"rendered":"~BLOWN AWAY\/KRANNERT ART MUSEUM\/CHICAGO"},"content":{"rendered":"

BLOWN AWAY – CURATED BY GINGER GREGG DUGGAN & JUDITH HOOS FOX
\nopening reception was: THURS JAN 24, 2008 6-8
\nthe show runs: JANUARY 25 – MARCH 30, 2008
\nKRANNERT ART MUSEUM and KINHEAD PAVILION
\nCOLLEGE OF FINE and APPLIED ARTS
\nUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
\n500 EAST PEABODY DRIVE – CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS
\nwww.kam.uiuc.edu<\/a>
\nHOURS: TUES-SAT 9-5 \/ THURS 9-9 \/ SUN 2-5 \/ CLOSED MON<\/p>\n

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\nthe front graphic on the show’s invite – a 3 part fold-over card<\/p>\n

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\nthe 21 artists in the show<\/p>\n

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\nthe only illustrations of art included in the show – 2 images by MICHAEL BELL-SMITH, from his ‘Action Hack’, single channel video loops. 2007 – are of a purely visual\/plastic ‘explosive’ nature.<\/p>\n

“This exhibit features work in a variety of media by artists who address the character, meaning, and implications of explosions – from the intensity of an impending event to the sensation of the release and the reverberations of the ensuing shock waves.” – PRESS RELEASE<\/em><\/p>\n

are they kidding – are they being just ‘super’ casual – as in, museum ‘hyper academic flat’ speak – do they mean solely plastic “artistic explosions” – is there any political content. I mean explosions can kill – it isn’t exactly that pretty a topic as they make out – and, there’s nothing as yet – to give any indication on the website.
\nThe only illustrations on the card are of ‘plastic’ \/ purely visual “explosions” by MICHAEL BELL-SMITH. That is definitely worth seeing, don’t get me wrong – its just the wording of that brief press release & the casualness of the title: ‘BLOWN AWAY’ that has me shaking my head. is that a clue to the nature of the show ?
\ndo they just mean BLOWN AWAY as in WOWED !! – I mean, BLOWN AWAY – esp in an explosion – can mean having your body blown to parts. and yet the card and show is presented in such an up-beat way.
\nI mean they actually are screening MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI’S famous film ‘BLOWUP’ (1966)
\nas part of the program – with apanel discussion title, get this – “Rupture in FILM’ featuring U of I faculty members.
\nbut, we also note GERHARD RICHTER & THOMAS RUFF are in the show – so that’s a possibility for some thematic and possibly political – as well as purely plastic explosions.
\nMaybe they have that great computer generated series of photographs by THOMAS RUFF – on the WORLD TRADE CENTER disaster\/explosion ? This drop-dead amazing series of photographs were shown in March 2001 at DAVID ZWIRNER, in a THOMAS RUFF exhibit simply titled: ‘New Work’.
\nI think, (that’s I think<\/em>) – they were priced at $80,000 a piece, in a very limited edition, even at that time.
\nhere’s one from our archives:
\n\"Blown
\nTHOMAS RUFF, from his SPRING 2005 show: ‘New Work’, at DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY.
\nPHOTO: NANCY SMITH\/artloversnewyork. MARCH 11, 2005
\nsee a few more pix from that show: here !! – 3rd row down<\/a><\/p>\n

KRANNERT ART MUSEUM<\/a>
\nnote: no images\/or content on this show at all – as of post time.
\n(JAN 24, 2008)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BLOWN AWAY – CURATED BY GINGER GREGG DUGGAN & JUDITH HOOS FOX opening reception was: THURS JAN 24, 2008 6-8 the show runs: JANUARY 25 – MARCH 30, 2008 KRANNERT ART MUSEUM and KINHEAD PAVILION COLLEGE OF FINE and APPLIED ARTS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 500 EAST PEABODY DRIVE – CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS www.kam.uiuc.edu HOURS: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}