The Seduction of Duchamp, the traveling exhibition that began its tour at the Duchamp Winery's Slaughterhouse Space in Healdsburgh, CA October 2009 will open at The Art Museum of Los Gatos on September 10, 2010 and run through October 29th, 2010.
http://www.museumsoflosgatos.org/Art.html
In commemoration of the event, The Museum has received on loan, two original Marcel Duchamp drawings from The Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson. They are also providing the funds to underwrite a Catalog for the exhibition.
Also, in commemoration, Mr. Lubliner has produced two posters that will be available at the Art Museums gift store. Please see attached:
The Seduction of Duchamp at the Los Gatos Museum
THE GARDEN OF ARBITRARY VOLITION
SF Chronicle/96 Hours review by Nirmala Nataraj:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/21/NS2J1BJUM3.DTL
The Slaughterhouse Space which is a wonderful, ex-industrial exhibition space in Healdsburg. CA. and part of the Lenz family's Duchamp Winery, will host a major exhibition and auction commemorating Marcel Duchamp. The show titled: SEDUCTION OF DUCHAMP Bay Area Artists' Response, runs from October 3, 2009 - November 7, 2009.
Mr. Lubliner created two works specifically for the exhibition; a photo montage based on Duchamp's T um' called Duchamp, Pret-A-Porter and a push-broom and Lucite sculpture called The Broom Ensnared In His Pristine Haven. A parody of The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even.
Also both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have taken note of the current Duchamp revival with an article about his permanent exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum:
http://www.slaughterhousespace.com/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346641329487698.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/arts/design/28duchamp.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
LaFayette Library purchases Seaborg Portrait
September 30th 2009. The Lafayette Library and Learning Center in Lafayette, California has just agreed to purchase Mr. Lubliner's 1986 portrait of Nobel Prize winner Glenn Seaborg.
The Lafayette Library and Learning Center represents a community-driven effort to build a regional resource and national model for the library of the future. Hailed as a “national model” for libraries, the Lafayette Library and Learning Center will also be home to the Glenn Seaborg Learning Consortium, an innovative partnership of the region’s leading arts, culture, and educational institutions.
Informative Links:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1951/seaborg-bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_T._Seaborg
National Portrait Gallery
This month, May 2009, The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC purchased a vintage print of one of Mr. Lubliner's portraits of sculptor Richard Serra. The photograph was taken in 1969 as part of Mr. Lubliner's coverage of the famed Art & Technology Program created by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Crocker Acquisition
December 2008, The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento California has agreed to acquire a print of Mr. Lubliner's photograph "Benicia Park 2001". The majority of Mr. Lubliner's urban landscape images are large, archival pigment prints approximately, 22X28 inches. The portfolio can be viewed at:
http://www.cityvisions.com/fa/fa-sp.shtml
Banned and Recovered
Malcolm Lubliner is one of sixty artists participating in a major exhibition on the subject of banned books organized by curator Hanna Regev. http://www.sfcb.org/html/2008banned.html
Phase one of the exhibition opened on August 15th, 2008 in San Francisco at The Center for the Book and Phase two, the one in which Mr Lubliner's work will appear, opens on September 5th, 2008 at the African American Museum and Library in Oakland. Mr. Lubliner's book selection is All Quiet on the Western Front, the powerful anti-war novel by Erich Remarque published in 1928 and banned by Hitler in 1933 calling it "anti-German and anti-patriotic".
Mr. Lubliner's piece is a four by six foot image containing interpretive drawing and reproductions of WW1 photographs of dead and dismembered soldiers who suffered the agonies of trench warfare.
This is the artist's statement about the work:
“All Quiet on the Western Front”
The montage composed of photographs of dead and dismembered soldiers is a pivotal part of the image. It is intended to give viewers a taste of conditions on the front lines during World War One. They came from a Brussels based archive, The Great War in a Different Light, which contains hundreds of similar photographs taken by photojournalists who had seemingly few editorial restrictions, although some of these were also banned.
The Gothic German text is an abstracted version of the original title taken from the book’s first edition dust jacket. Translated the title reads, “In The West Nothing New”, which was apparently Erich Remarque’s sardonic commentary on how little concern or sympathy the military leadership had for the men in the trenches where life was consistently and pervasively miserable.
The soldier in the drawing has volunteered for service under great social pressure and against his instincts. He is a missionary for his government’s interests although he will not profit from them. He is both perpetrator and victim, ringmaster and clown. He is neither alive nor dead and no longer has control over the flames of his volition. A ghost of what might have been a rich life; he is now a scrap of currency in an international gamble.
The woman in the drawing, wise and skeptical of military motives is silenced by cultural tradition. Burdened by the absurdity of war and the imperatives of home, her memories, real and invented, mingle with dreams and demons. She reads the news of battles and stares at the street now barren of young men except for those who paid for their loyalty with severed limbs or broken minds, although even that was often no excuse for absence from duty.
