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Jac Leirner at Galerie Lelong. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
Art in America; Jul 1, 1994; ; 700+ Words ...Povera, the Brazilian artist Jac Leirners casually assembled...perhaps at times simplistic. Leirner is probably best known for her...ironic (albeit obvious) twist. Leirner's recent works focus on the...is a magical invention. When Leirner gets it right, the results...
Jac Leirner: Centro cultural banco do Brasil. (Rio de Janeiro).(Brief Article)
Artforum International; Jan 1, 2002; ; 526 Words ...Since the beginning of her career, in the mid-'80s, Jac Leirner's works have stood as monuments of loss and memorials...charting the slow process of giving up smoking. If at times Leirner veers dangerously close to the driest form of institutionalized...
Jac Leirner. (Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Artforum International; Jan 1, 1994; ; 700+ Words GALERIA CAMARGO VILACA Jac Leirner's work has frequently been discussed...fulfill the goals of this manifesto. Leirner's work can be understood as the mark...the imaginary space of the body. In Leirner this operation appears emptied of the...
NEW YORK: Jac Leirner at the Bohen Foundation.(New York, New York)(review of exhibitions)(Review)
Art in America; Jun 1, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...Mondrian's homage to boogie-woogie, Jac Leirner installed a circuitous montage of...side at eye level. It expresses Leirner's interest in the nature of circuits...progress on the far side, where Leirner repeats the color and approximate...
Brazilian's Brashness
The Washington Post; Dec 25, 1992; ; 559 Words JAC LEIRNER collects objects of no apparent value...talented hands it still would be trash. But Leirner has transformed it, sharing with us the...artists worth all the trouble. DIRECTIONS: JAC LEIRNER - Through March 21 at the Hirshhorn Museum...
All Americans: Exhibit Reflects Diversity, Displacement
Chicago Sun-Times; Mar 12, 1995; ; 700+ Words ...Guillermo Kuitca, Argentina), a tangle of pilfered airline forks, knives and spoons dangling on a polyurethane cord (Jac Leirner, Brazil) and an installation of light bulbs, extension cords and rubber light sockets (Felix Gonzales-Torres...
A SEASON'S- WORTH OF ART.(Showtime)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); Nov 8, 1992; 700+ Words ...Also: "Joseph Kosuth Works" through Jan. 25; "Eva Hesse: A Retrospective" through Jan. 10; "Directions - Jac Leirner" Dec. 17-March 14. National Portrait Gallery: "Noble Heritage: Five Centuries of Portraits From the Hosokawa...
Moma's Show of Shows.(New York Museum of Modern Art's new exhibition, 'Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect')(Brief Article)
Newsweek International; Apr 5, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...to admit that "maybe it's the shopping" that's got people more interested in museums these days. He includes Jac Leirner's collection of bags from museum shops around the world, as well as Hans Haacke's "Cowboy With Cigarette," a...
The "empty" biennial: initial plans for an artwork-free 28th Sao Paulo Bienal unleashed a storm of controversy. Compromise ensued.(BRAZIL REPORT)
Art in America; Mar 1, 2009; ; 700+ Words ...described his dismay in an article published in Frieze online, and he quoted internationally known Brazilian artist Jac Leirner saying that the proposal was the equivalent of "a punch in the stomach." (2) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FACING THE...
MIAMI ART FAIR DRAWS MORE GALLERIES, CROWDS
United Press International; Jan 25, 2001; 650 Words ...and Pablo Soria, from Argentina; Alirio Palacios, Miguel Meza and Elvis Rosendo from Venezuela; Fernanda Gomes and Jac Leirner from Brazil; and Carolina Edwards, Benjamn Lira and Jorge Tacla from Chile, among many others. Towards the final...
Inside job
The Village Voice; May 18, 1999; ; 700+ Words ...feel like you're eavesdropping on history. But there's something suspicious in this section of the show. Look at Jac Leirner's predictable wall work made of museum shopping bags, or Baumgarten's hypocritical slide show of museum displays...
Paradoxes and transfigurations. (various artists and galleries) (Report From Brazil)
Art in America; Jul 1, 1994; ; 700+ Words ...now becoming clear that it was also a decade of objects and installations. The works of the socio-conceptual artist Jac Leirner are based upon accumulation. Frida Baranek incorporates industrial throwaways to make overwhelmingly large sculptures...
Arte objeto e instalaciones en el CCAC. (crítica de la exposición de arte objeto en el Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo; México)(TT: Installations and art objects in the CCAC) (TA: critique of the object art exhibition in the Contemporary Art Cultural Center; Mexico)
Proceso; Aug 17, 1997; ; 700+ Words ...Galera El Museo de Santaf de Bogot. A Alfredo Jaar, chileno radicado en Nueva York, y a los brasileos Cildo Meireles y Jac Leirner los present la neoyorkina Galera Lelong, y Meireles tambin estuvo en el puesto de la Joel Edelstein Arte Contemporanea...
"Etnografia: Modo De Empleo"; Museo De Bellas Artes. (Reviews: Caracas).(Ethnography: a user's guide--archaeology, fine arts, ethnography and varieties)
Artforum International; Feb 1, 2003; ; 700+ Words ...with that of Latin Americans Juan Araujo, Colectivo Cambalache, Juan Downey, Daniel Guzman and Luis Felipe Ortega, Jac Leirner, Roberto Obregon, and Alfred Wenemoser, among others. At the center of the exhibition was the late Claudio Perna...
Obituaries.(Obituary)
Art in America; Mar 1, 2000; 700+ Words ...gallery represented many of Brazil's most prominent younger artists, including Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Jac Leirner and Adriana Varejao. The gallery both contributed to and benefited from the increased international awareness of contemporary...
Britannia's Biennial.(Liverpool Biennial)
Art in America; Jul 1, 2000; ; 700+ Words ...Perhaps the most splashy of these was "Art Lovers," which engaged an international group of art couples (among them Jac Leirner and Jose Resende, Tom Borgese and Jack Pierson, Tracey Emin and Mat Collishaw) in the creation of collaborative works...
BrasilConnects Brings Brazilian Arts and Culture to New York.
Business Wire; Oct 16, 2001; 700+ Words ...Gallery Openings in October (please contact BrasilConnects for a full list of exhibitions in New York) Jose Bechara Jac Leirner Henrique Faria Fine Art Gallery Brent Sikkema Gallery 805 Madison Avenue, 3B 530 West 22nd Street 212-517-4609...
Rivane Neuenschwander: Stephen Friedman Gallery. (Reviews: London).(Brief Article)
Artforum International; Apr 1, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...awareness of quotidian materials characteristic of Brazilian Neoconcretism and the work of its contemporary heirs like Jac Leirner or Ernesto Neto. But Neuenschwander's work has an engaging lightness that seems unburdened by historical precedent...
ARTISTS SPAN TWO CONTINENTS
Post-Tribune (IN); Apr 7, 1995; 601 Words ...that focus on the relationships between humans and nature - the city and the country. The nomadic life is reflected in Jac Leirner's floating sculptures of purloined airline paraphernalia, as well as in Andrea Zittel's high-tech portable living...
Venetian bind
The Village Voice; Jul 15, 1997; ; 700+ Words ...Rachel Whiteread's solid castings in Britain's pavilion, Zofia Kulik's photo tapestry of nudes in Poland's, Jac Leirner's strung-out calling cards in Brazil's, Katharina Sieverding's looming photoworks in Germany's, Steina Vasulka...
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