ATOMICA

Esso gallery and Lombard-Freid Fine Arts are pleased to present a collaborative show entitled ATOMICA: Making the Invisible Visible, based on a project by Ombretta Agro'Andruff.

The exhibition will be on view from June 7th to July 29th, 2005 at Esso Gallery and Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, 531 West 26th Street, 2nd Floor.

The opening reception will be on June 22nd from 6 to 8 PM.

On July 25th, 1945 the President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. On August 6th, 1945, the rest of the world learned of the specter of nuclear apocalypse: a new and unimaginable force had been unleashed and the threat that all life could come to a sudden and horrific end became a reality.

On the sixtieth anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ATOMICA pays homage to the power of art and its continuing relevance to engage the public in a dialogue about war and peace.

ATOMICA brings together a group of international artists of different backgrounds and generations in an interactive dialog on the subject of nuclear threat, which is as much of a presence today as it was sixty years ago. The exhibition, comprised of 35 artists, is an awareness platform from which the audience can, in response to a past catastrophic event, understand and react to a present and future danger.

Participating artists include: Shiva Ahmadi, Jesse Bransford, Chris Burden, Davide Cantoni, Sarah Ciraci', Julian Dashper, Heide Fasnacht, Tony Feher, Carlos Garaicoa, Joy Garnett, Leon Golub, Ingo Gunther, Mark Handelmann, Keith Haring, Alfredo Jaar, Marguerite Kahrl, Peter Kennard, Komar + Melamid, Seitaro Kuroda + Hironobu Yamabe, Molly Larkey, Cristobal Lehyt, Ellen K. Levy, Robert Longo, Dominic McGill, Curtis Mitchell, Nobuho Nagasawa, Taras Polataiko, Robert Polidori, Michael Rakowitz, Lisi Raskin, Wilhelm Sasnal, Francesco Simeti, Nancy Spero, Hiroshi Sunairi and John Timberlake.

In conjunction with the ATOMICA exhibition, a continuous program of film and video screenings will feature rarely seen documentaries and films by: Stefano Cagol, Oleg Chorny and Gena Khmaruck, Andreas Samland, Motohashi Seiichi, Stephen Sotor and Trace Gaynor, Mark Waller, Kathleen Sullivan, Robert Richter, Stan Warnow, and Muratbek Jumaliev & Gulnara Kasmalieva.

The organizers would like to thank all of the artists who participated in the exhibition and Feature Gallery, Galerie Lelong, Anton Kern Gallery, Kent Gallery, Derek Eller Gallery, Metro Pictures, D'Amelio Terras, Ronald Feldman Fine Art and Kirk Radke for their precious help.

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ATOMICA: Making the Invisible Visible
from a project by Ombretta Agro Andruff

mit Shiva Amadi, Jesse Bransford, Chris Burden, Davide Cantoni, Sarah Ciraci, Julian Dashper, Heide Fasnacht, Tony Feher, Carlos Garaicoa, Joy Garnett, Leon Golub, Ingo Günther, Keith Haring, Mark Handelmann, Marguerite Karl, Peter Kennard, Komar & Melamid, Seitaro Kuroda & Yamabe, Alfredo Jaar, Molly Larkey, Cristobal Lehyt, Ellen K. Levy, Robert Longo, Dominic McGill, Curtis Mitchell, Robert Morris, Taras Polataiko, Michael Rakowits, Lisi Raskin, Wilhelm Sasnal, Francesco Simeti, Nancy Spero, Hiroshi Sunairi, John Timberlake

ATOMICA Parallelausstellungen:
06.06.05 - 30.07.05 Esso Gallery, New York
07.07.05 - 29.07.05 Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York