Documentary videos by Vin Grabill at the Gugenheim Museum

Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:56:14 -0500
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Three documentary videos produced by Visual Arts Department Chair Vin Grabill will be screened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of the "Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s Film Program".

Grabill's videos "Otto Piene's Sky Art", "Otto Piene's Sky Art Neon Rainbow", and "Sky Kiss at Desert Sun/Desert Moon" will be presented by the museum. These artist documentaries provide an expanded look at the ZERO network and the processes that the artists employed.

Otto Piene was one of the founding members of Group Zero, "an international network of artists that shared the group's aspiration to redefine and transform art in the aftermath of World War II." Otto became the director of the Center For Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at MIT and served in that capacity till 1994, and UMBC bestowed an honorary degree on Otto Piene in 1995.