Curated by Pamela Kort and Robert Storr

January 23–March 21, 2004
Goldie Paley Gallery

Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 22, 5:30–7:30pm
Moore Atrium
Admission Free

Symposium:
Jörg Immendorff:
Arguments with the Present—Conversations with the Past
Friday January 23, 2:00–5:00 pm
Moore Auditorium
Reservations required: click here for ticket information

Featured panelists:
Arthur C. Danto—critic, New York
Steven Ellis—artist and art historian, New York
Pamela Kort—curator and art historian, New York
Isabelle Moffat—art historian, Hamburg
Rober Storr (moderator)—artist, critic, curator, and the
Rosalee Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute
of Fine Arts, New York

Walk-through/closing party:
Local artists and international brews: artist-led discussions and a bierkeller-style party to mark the closing of the exhibition
Tuesday, March 16, 5:30–8:30pm

Exhibition catalog:
Jörg Immendorff: I Wanted to Become an Artist; three new essays; 75 color reproductions; 100 pages; Walther Köenig Publishers Exhibition:
Jörg Immendorff: I Wanted to Become an Artist is the first solo museum exhibition of this fifty-eight-year-old German artist's work in the United States. Curated by Robert Storr and Pamela Kort, the exhibition comprises 100 works: a survey of Immendorff's disparate bodies of drawings, a key group of monumental paintings, selected performance objects and documents, and (screened on video in the gallery) the Salzburg Summer Festival production of the opera The Rake's Progress, for which Immendorff designed the sets and costumes.

The exhibition and accompanying catalog and international symposium tracks Immendorff's prolific, complex, and little-understood practice across his four-decade career. While critics in the 1980s often included Immendorff among the neo-expressionists, this exhibition posits that, on the one hand, Immendorff's primary concern with social, political, and aesthetic ideas makes him, in some ways, closer in spirit to conceptualism, while, on the other, the frequently playful and sharp caricatural bite of his images distinguishes his work from the grand manner of Anselm Kiefer and the cool virtuosity of Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter.

Curators Kort and Storr have selected key examples of Immendorff's early installation and performance works, his agitprop paintings and drawings, his bright, broad brushed tableaux, and his recent, often overtly theatrical works dealing with the contested history and contemporary impact of ideas. Jörg Immendorff: I Wanted to Become an Artist introduces and examines the work of an artist who is underrecognized in the United States. Most important, it provides a vehicle for the assessment of his lasting significance.

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General admission ticket—$20.00
Friends of the Galleries at Moore and members of the Moore community with photo ID—$10.00

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