Rä di Martino, No More Stars (Star Wars) 33°59’39 N 7°50’34 E Chot El-Gharsa, Tunisia 03 September 2010.

2010 101 Curatorial Fellow Sharon Lerner has co-curated an exhibition with Flavia Frigeri that will be on view at the Tate Modern this Spring. The exhibition entitled, Ruins in Reverse, is part of a curatorial collaboration between Tate Modern and the Museo de Arte de Lima - MALI, where Lerner is Curator of Contemporary Art. 

Ruins in Reverse, on view as part of the Project Space series, “questions the distinction between historical monuments and abandoned urban ruins.” The exhibition will feature works by Rä di Martino, Pablo Hare, José Carlos Martinat, Haroon Mirza, Eliana Otta and Amalia Pica. The show opens on March 1 and will be on view through June 24

For a look back at Sharon Lerner’s 101 Route 2: Undisclosed Destination at the Wattis, click here and here. 

Hans-Peter Feldmann, Teapot with shadow.

We are excited for the opening of Cinematic Moments curated by Kadist Curatorial Fellow, A. Will Brown on Friday, March 1, at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco. It is the first exhibition in an annual exhibition series titled The Order of Things, which draws from the Kadist Collection. 

Cinematic Moments aims to break down the structure and production of cinema—specifically film, an important facet of California culture—into stages that are normally obscured. The exhibition will feature works by Mauricio Ancalmo, Erick Beltrán, David Berezin, Yoan Capote, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Nathaniel Dorsky, Haris Epaminonda, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Charles Gaines, Ryan Gander, Loris Gréaud, Jiří Kovanda, Benoît Maire, Koki Tanaka, Ian Wallace, and Haegue Yang.

The exhibition will be on view through March 30.

San Francisco will soon have two concurrent exhibitions by Claire Fontaine. First, Queens Nails in the Mission will host Sell Your Debt, opening on Saturday, January 19. 

On Tuesday, January 22 the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts will host Redemptions. The exhibition follow Fontaine’s residency at Capp Street Project and will help inaugurate new galleries on Kansas Street.  

Tim Lee, Untitled (Buster Keaton, 1897), 2010

Artists Tim Lee and Nina Beier in conversation with curator Jens Hoffmann on the exhibition, When Attitudes Become Form Become Attitudes, currently on view at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.

Tim Lee: I just watched The Bourne Legacy, a movie that is neither a remake nor a full sequel, nor can it be aptly qualified as a franchise reboot. The film is confounding in the way it can’t be neatly categorized—it both follows and diverts from its predecessors and merely makes conscious a knowledge of the former in order to tell a completely different story.

I can see “When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes” as falling in a somewhat similar and ambiguous category. Both the film and the exhibition inscribe their primary references in their titles as a way to both measure the historical impact of the original and as a starting point from which its standards and achievements can be potentially renewed. 

Here is a set of photographs from the K exhibition at the Wattis on the website of assistant curator Dane Jensen. K was curated by Kadist Curatorial Resident Juan A. Gaitán.

In case you missed it, here’s a post from Dodie Bellamy’s blog describing visiting the Wattis exhibition K, curated by Kadist curatorial resident Juan A. Gaitán. The show is up through June 30th. Dodie Bellamy was included in the recent In Protest project, as was Kevin Killian, featured in a lovely photo in the post above.