The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (UK)
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Zeno at the Edge of the Known World: Joseph Kosuth in conversation with Katalin Keserü
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Thursday, 6 February 2014 16pm
In 1993, Katalin Keserü curated Joseph Kosuth's installation, Zeno At The Edge Of The Known World for the Hungarian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, one of the first times a ‘non-native' artist was asked to work in a national pavilion. His installation was based, she explains, on a ‘Freudian but ironic' book, Zeno's consciousness by Italo Svevo, born in Trieste during the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and a friend and pupil of James Joyce.
Joseph Kosuth is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art; his Art after Philosophy, 1969, was circulated, often in samizdat translations all over the world. Chosen by Marcel Duchamp to receive a Cassandra Foundation Grant in 1968, he has continued to receive awards and honours: he moved recently to London where he holds the Millard Chair at Goldsmith's College, continuing an international teaching career. From One and Three Chairs, 1965, to the Rosetta Stone installation in Figeac, 1991 or his current major project for France's Bibliothèque Nationale, writing and the poetics of text are centra to his site specific projects.
Katalin Keserü is Professor Emerita at the Art History Institute, University Lóránd Eötvös, Budapest (ELTE) where she has taught since 1975. She has curated major exhbitions and edited books on Hungarian art and culture since that time. She was director of the Budapest Kunsthalle (1992-1995) and director of the Ernst Museum from 2000 to 2006. Research programmes she has recently directed include ‘Art of the 1980s in Hungary'; ‘Ornaments and Modernism'; ‘Written sources of the Turn of the Century Art'; ‘Architecture and Applied Art in Central Europe'; ‘Art Nouveau ornaments in Budapest architecture'. She has lectured as guest professor and at different universities from Romania to Canada. She is member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
Thursday, 6 February 2014
16.00-18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Joseph Kosuth and Katalin Keserü
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission (no booking necessary). Limited space available on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 3:30pm.
Organised by: Professor Sarah Wilson
