October 8 - 10
Chinati Weekend

Highlights of the weekend event, to be held October 8-10 in Marfa, Texas, include a special exhibition by Carl Andre, a benefit dinner in honor of retiring Chinati Director Marianne Stockebrand, musical and spoken word performances, and the publication of a comprehensive new history and catalogue of the museum's permanent collection.

Carl Andre
A pioneering and influential sculptor and poet for more than forty years, Carl Andre has been exhibiting his work internationally since the mid-1960s and introduced a new vocabulary for sculpture by making works with industrially manufactured raw materials, in units, placed flat on the floor. For his exhibition at Chinati, Andre has created a sculpture specifically for the courtyard of the U-shaped temporary gallery. Inside the gallery will be works by the artist dating from the 1960s and 1980s.

On Saturday, October 9 at 3:00 PM at the Crowley Theatre, two guest speakers will discuss Carl Andre's work: Eva Meyer-Hermann, independent curator, former curator of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and organizer of the 1996 retrospective exhibition Carl Andre in Krefeld and Wolfsburg, Germany; and James Meyer, Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University, curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, author of Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties and editor of Minimalism and Cuts: Texts 1959-2004, an anthology of writings by Carl Andre.

Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd
This long-anticipated, richly illustrated volume provides a detailed history of the museum and a comprehensive catalogue of the permanent collection. The main text is by Marianne Stockebrand, Chinati's Director, with additional essays by Rudi Fuchs, Thomas Kellein, Richard Shiff, Nicholas Serota, and Rob Weiner. The book is co-published by Yale University Press and Chinati. A reception in the Arena on Saturday morning, October 9 at 11:00 AM will celebrate the book, with Marianne Stockebrand and other authors present.

Benefit dinner in honor of Marianne Stockebrand
Marianne Stockebrand has been Chinati's Director since 1994. During her tenure at Chinati she has worked to implement Donald Judd's plans and has overseen the expansion of the collection to include Carl Andre's poems, Dan Flavin's untitled (Marfa project) and the John Wesley Gallery. Stockebrand has organized numerous symposia and special exhibitions for Chinati and written and lectured extensively about the museum and the artists represented in the collection. To honor her achievements, Chinati is hosting a dinner to benefit the museum on Friday, October 8. The evening will begin with a preview of the Carl Andre exhibition at 6:00 PM, and the dinner (7:00 PM) will be accompanied by live opera music.

Tickets are $500 per person and seating is limited. For on-line reservations, please click here or call the Chinati Foundation office at 432 729 4362.

Other Events

John Kelly in Paved Paradise
On Saturday evening, October 9, the performance and visual artist John Kelly will perform his celebrated Joni Mitchell tribute, Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell, at the Crowley Theatre. Originally trained as a dancer, Kelly has been creating performance works for the past twenty-five years, "staging" the lives and works of artists such as Egon Schiele, Caravaggio, Antonin Artaud, and Jean Cocteau. He first performed his Joni Mitchell tribute in 1987; since then, he has developed the piece and toured it around the world. In 2003, in an article about Mitchell, New York Times music critic John Rockwell wrote: "Right now, the best live Joni Mitchell is the countertenor-falsettist-drag artist John Kelly in his periodic revivals of his Joni Mitchell act ... If you want to see [Joni Mitchell] in person, catch John Kelly."

There will be two performances of Paved Paradise at the Crowley Theatre on Saturday evening: one at 7:00 PM and one at 10:00. The performances are free, but as seating is limited, reservations are strongly advised.

To make a reservation, click here or call the museum office at 432 729-4362.

Zoe Leonard Reading
On Sunday morning, October 10, at 11:00 AM, Zoe Leonard will perform a new spoken-word piece at the Crowley Theatre. Leonard is an artist who has been exhibiting internationally since 1990. The work to be presented at the Crowley, This is where I was, is Leonard's first spoken-word performance and a companion piece to her exhibition You see I am here after all currently on view at Dia:Beacon in New York. That exhibition consists of several thousand vintage postcards of Niagara Falls, dating from the early 1900s to the 1950s, arranged, image side out, in varying grid patterns. For the work she will perform in Marfa, Leonard is using the reverse, "written" side of the postcards, constructing a kind of poetic, stream-of-consciousness narrative from the myriad texts.

Artist-in-Residence Exhibition
Chinati Artist in Residence Marc Ganzglass will exhibit new work in the Ice Plant. Ganzglass is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in sculpture, film and video, and other media. He is interested in science and technology and his work sometimes uses materials drawn from both, "reframed" in an art context. In Marfa Ganzglass will exhibit a work specially conceived for the Ice Plant. The work will be open to the public from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM on Saturday, October 8 and Sunday, October 9.

Permanent Collection
Works by Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and John Chamberlain, as well as by Carl Andre, Ingólfur Arnarsson, Roni Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Richard Long, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, David Rabinowitch, and John Wesley will be open free to the public on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00AM until 3:00PM.

General information
All Chinati Foundation permanent installations and special exhibitions will be open for public viewing free of charge on Saturday, October 9 and Sunday, October 10 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The John Kelly and Zoe Leonard performances, and the talks on Saturday afternoon, will also be free and open to the public.

For further information about the Carl Andre exhibition, the John Kelly and Zoe Leonard performances, the Benefit Dinner, or the Chinati Foundation in general, please contact:

Ann Marie Nafziger
Education and Public Programs Coordinator
The Chinati Foundation
T: 432 729 4362
E: amnafziger@chinati.org