Im Rahmen der Ausstellung «Cathy Josefowitz. Release» haben ZHdK Fine Arts Studierende Performances in der Galerie Hauser & Wirth in Zürich aufgeführt.
Die ZHdK Fine Arts Studierenden Nikita Purpu, David Dragan, Ice Wong Kei Suet, Oana Popa sowie Arttu Palmio, Unterrichtsassistent im Departement Fine Arts, wurden von einer Jury ausgewählt und haben am Samstag, 23. März 2024, in der Galerie Hauser & Wirth in Zürich ihre Performances aufgeführt. Diese nahmen Bezug auf Werke der Künstlerin Cathy Josefowitz, welche in der aktuellen Ausstellung «Cathy Josefotwitz. Release» zu sehen sind.
Die Jury bestand aus Bettina Moriceau Maillard, Direktorin des Cathy Josefowitz Estate, Swetlana Heger, Leitung des Departements Fine Arts (ZHdK), und Hauser & Wirth.
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The evening will start with an introduction to the exhibition, followed by the performance program and a drinks reception.
As part of the 2024 Open Day at Löwenbräukunst, this event is free and open to all. No registration necessary.
About the exhibition ‘Cathy Josefowitz. Release’
Developing a deeply personal visual language in her quest to represent the body as an expressive vehicle of individual experience, New York-born, Swiss-raised artist Cathy Josefowitz (1956 – 2014) created a wide-ranging oeuvre spanning drawing and painting, performance and dance. The breadth of her creative output is on view in a solo exhibition—Josefowitz’s first in Zurich—focusing on her compelling progression of the figure across four decades, from the 1970s to her later shift towards abstraction, with many works shown for the first time. The presentation takes its title from Josefowitz’s choreographic piece ‘Release’ (1988), a performance replete with fluid movements that is projected on the wall of the gallery. Drawing on the Anatomical Release technique pioneered by dance teacher and choreographer Mary Fulkerson, Josefowitz falls, twists and rolls in order to let go of tension and cultivate creativity, liberating her body and mind.