"Art is a means to acquiring an investigative activity. I don't know if you can necessarily change things in a broad sense. You can make yourself aware of the possibilities; It is important to do that."
Bruce Nauman

Ian Wilson

In 1968, the American conceptual artist Ian Wilson decided to translate his ideas about visible abstraction in art into the invisible abstraction of language. In this dematerialisation of art, he went further than such other artists of the time as Laurence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Barry or Art & Language. He presented oral communication as the actual object, and in doing this freed art from a fixed location.
"I present oral communication as an object, … all art is information and communication. I've chosen to speak rather than sculpt. I've freed art from a specific place. It's now possible for everyone. I'm diametrically opposed to the precious object. My art is not visual, but visualized." Ian Wilson

Robert Mapplethorpe "Patti Smith", 1976

Charles Darwin

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin

Darren Almond at Site Santa Fe

In his films, photographs, live broadcasts, and kinetic sculptures, Darren Almond explores changing conceptions of time and space as experienced by people in today’s technological age. Delving into both personal and historical memory, Almond often inverts and collapses the normal divisions between space and time, making us question our ability to demarcate them into measurable entities. SITE Santa Fe is presenting four video works by Almond, including his train films and his poignant multi-screen installation If I Had You (2003) that was shown at K21 Düsseldorf in 2005, and later that year was selected for Tate Britain’s Turner Prize. Attempting to capture the memories of his grandmother, Nan, on film, Almond uses both video and sound to conjure the incessant and inevitable passage of time. SITE is also premiering Almond’s new film, In the Between (2006), which was recently shot on the newly built railway that runs between China and Tibet.

SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
February 10 - May 13 2007

Chris Wool, Untitled, 1990

Richard Prince – Canaries in the Coal Mine

20 January – 29 April 2007
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

Richard Prince, Can't Read, Can't Write, Can't Swim, 1989
Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 75 x 58 inches, Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo