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ICI Associate in Exhibition
ICI Associate Lothar Schmitz will be featured in COLA 20 at Los Angeles Municipal Gallery (LAMAG), “Celebrating the first twenty years of the City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship Program.”
APRIL 27, 2017 THROUGH JULY 2, 2017
OPENING RECEPTION: APRIL 23 FROM 2 TO 5PM
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AIDS Chronicles 2001
Status: COMPLETED
Cover artist and binder: Martin Gantman
This edition is comprised of a single reliquary which houses all articles that mention HIV or AIDS along with the charred remains of the rest of the 2001 edition.
Exhibition history:
2016—Original pages were burnt during a public event at the ICI on December 1st, World AIDS Day
A Forger’s Life at the ICI
Adolfo Kaminsky, A Forger’s Life (DoppelHouse Press) is the gripping true story of the author’s father deemed “worthy of the best spy novels” (TED.com) and featured in the short documentary The Forger produced by The New York Times. The book traces Adolfo Kaminsky’s perilous double-life as a teenage forger for the French Resistance in World War II and, afterward, for numerous clandestine organizations. Adolfo Kaminsky helped save lives of people persecuted for their race, religion or beliefs for over 30 years, making documents to protect revolutionaries in Latin America, anti-colonial activists in Algeria and protesters in the May ’68 student rebellion. Because Adolfo Kaminsky worked professionally as a photographer, he was able to hide his forgery practice, and the book includes photos of his labs as well as artistic images from ‘40s–‘50s Paris.
On December 9, 2016 in the ICI Library, Sarah Kaminsky will read from the book and discuss art and forgery in a conversation led by Antoinette LaFarge and Lise Patt. The event begins at 6 pm with the conversation starting promptly at 6:30 pm. A book signing will immediately follow the discussion.
Please rsvp to the Institute at info@culturalinquiry.org.
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life is published by Doppelhouse Press. Please join us and show your support for this exciting new publisher based in Los Angeles, a city traditionally rich with talented writers and woefully poor when it comes to publishing houses.
OVERVIEW: Completed AIDS Chronicles
| Completed AIDS Chronicles Editions | |
| 1995 | Four portfolios which hold Chronicle pages hand-sewn together in an accordion fashion. Cover artist and binder: Esteban Chavez S. |
| 1997 | Four volumes with hand-painted covers that correspond to the four seasons. Cover artist and binder: Gary H. Brown (artist) and John Balkwill/Lumino Press (Binder) |
| 1998 | Twelve volumes bound and displayed as a newspaper rack. Cover artist and binder: Deborah Cullen-Morales (artist) and Karl Peterson (binder) |
| 2000 | Three volumes with hand painted covers that reference a DNA double helix. Cover artist and binder: Deborah Paulsen |
| 2001 | Single reliquary containing the intact articles and ash-based remains of the year. Cover artist and binder: Martin Gantman |
| 2003 | 2 reliquaries created by the artist to house loose painted pages . Cover artist and binder: Christel Dillbohner |
| 2010 | 3 coffin-like boxes with pages carry the added burden of reporting on the Haitian earthquake of 2010. Cover artist and binder: Vladimir Cybil Charlier |
| 2013 | Three digital volumes published online. Cover artist and binder: Sue-Na Gay |
AIDS Chronicles 1997
Status: COMPLETED
Cover artist and binder: Gary H. Brown (artist) and John Balkwill/Lumino Press (Binder)
This edition is comprised of 4 volumes with hand-painted covers that correspond to the four seasons. California artist Brown took the four seasons as the theme for this Chronicle, each volume of which contains three months of pages. For example, Brown’s “winter” cover features a gold leaf outline drawing of the Archer constellation against the deep blue of a midnight sky. A professor of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Brown dedicated his cover project to his friend and fellow artist John Bommer Murphy II, who died from AIDS complications in 1986 at the age of 29.
Pertinent changes to NYT: As one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography, the New York Times printed its first color photograph on the front page on October 16, 1997.
Exhibition history:
1998—These volumes were shown on December 1, at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry
2003—Displayed at the Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, CA as part of a retrospective exhibit of the AIDS Chronicles.
AIDS Chronicles 1995
Status: COMPLETED
Cover artist and binder: Esteban Chavez S.
This edition comprises four portfolios each of which holds Chronicle pages that have been hand-sewn together in an accordion fashion. New York-based Chavez S. used a photogravure process to create the cover images of his four-volume set. Visually emphasizing the artistic heritages of East and West, the portfolio-style covers were printed on both the inside and outside. The Chronicle’s pages were hand-sewn to create 12 accordion-fold books, each containing one month of pages. Each volumes includes specially printed “name sheets” between the months that include all those listed in New York Times obituary pages as having died of HIV/AIDS during that year. The portfolios were printed at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop in NYC.
Exhibition History:
1995—New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York on December 1 of that year, the sixth Day Without Art. The Chronicle was displayed in the lobby and visitors to the museum turned its pages at a rate determined by the number of AIDS deaths that year with each turn of the page representing a person that had died. This interactive display was positioned to occupy the Museum’s street-level display window, thereby bringing its message to the thousands of people who passed by the window on a daily basis.
2003—Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, CA as part of a retrospective exhibit of the AIDS Chronicles.
OVERVIEW – AIDS Chronicles in Production
| AIDS Chronicles Editions in Currently in Process | |
| 2014 | In addition to any articles mentioning AIDS or HIV, this year will also feature Ebola ‘ghost articles’ to emphasize this year’s extensive coverage of the Ebola health crisis relative to AIDS despite the statistically much higher rate of AIDS-related deaths each day.
Artist: Lise Patt |
| 2013 | The first digital edition of the AIDS Chronicles was released online for viewing and download on December 1, 2015; a limited edition printed box set of these volumes is currently in production.
Artist: Sue-Na Gay |
| 2006 | A large, sculptural ‘ball’ edition formed from the pages that comprise the full Chronicle year.
Artist: Institute of Cultural Inquiry |
| 2004 | A digitally painted and manipulated edition.
Artist: Antoinette LaFarge |
| 1996 | The pages for this year have been made into ‘yarn’ and are being knitted into a large, unwieldy quilt to bring emphasis to that other memorial of AIDS that was shown in its entirety on the Washington, D.C. Mall for the last time in the same year as this AIDS Chronicle.
Artist: The ICI family of Associates, Interns, and Volunteers |