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From November
8, 2013 through March 23, 2014, The Jewish Museum will present Art
Spiegelman's Co-Mix: A Retrospective celebrating the career of one of the
most influential living comics artists and showing the full range of five
decades of relentless experimentation. Best known for Maus,
his Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel about his parents' survival of the
Holocaust, Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) has produced a diverse body of work that has
blurred the boundaries between "high" and "low" art. This first U.S.
retrospective spans Spiegelman's career: from his early days in underground
comix to the thirteen-year genesis of Maus,
to more recent work including provocative covers for The
New Yorker, and artistic collaborations in new and unexpected media. The
exhibition highlights Spiegelman's painstaking creative process, and includes
over three hundred preparatory sketches, preliminary and final drawings, as well
as prints and other ephemeral and documentary material.
Spiegelman first made a name
for himself as a cartoonist and editor in underground comix, the graphic
expression of the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. As he matured as an
artist, Spiegelman diverged from the sex and drug ethos of his peers and, in a
postmodern fashion, increasingly challenged the narrative, visual, and
structural possibilities of comics. He also began exploring themes that dominate
his work to this day: intimate personal expression, memory, and
history. In the 1980s Spiegelman
reinvigorated underground comics by co-founding the avant-garde magazine RAW with
his wife Françoise Mouly. RAW showcased
the most groundbreaking graphic artists of the time, and serially published
chapters of the then work-in-progressMaus. Maus recounted his parents' life in
Nazi-occupied Poland and later at Auschwitz, as well as Spiegelman's own complex
relationship with his father, Vladek. Eventually published in two volumes (in
1986 and 1991 respectively) by Pantheon,Maus was the first of its kind in
content and format: the unique structure of the comics medium allowed the artist
to navigate time and memory beyond the limitations of prose, creating a rich
narrative that exploded the boundaries of comics and
nonfiction. Refusing to be defined by the
overwhelming attention brought by this singular work, Spiegelman largely turned
away from autobiography in the 1990s, instead writing and drawing for The
New Yorker and other publications, and creating children's
books.But after witnessing firsthand the
collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11, he returned to personal narrative with his
autobiographical account In
the Shadow of No Towers(2004). This lifelong concern with
memory and personal experience has continued
in his short comic strip memoir Portrait
of the Artist as a Young %@*&! (2008), and inMetamaus (2011),
a meditation on his creative process and
career. A self-proclaimed "stylistic
switch-hitter," Spiegelman's versatility and encyclopedic knowledge of comics
history has allowed him to adapt his visual language to many contexts and
audiences. For those most familiar with Maus,
this retrospective exhibition will be revelatory, exploring his early formal
experiments, honest self-exposés, as well as provocative illustrations and comic
essays. Museum
visitors will gain an intimate look at an artist who continuously pushes himself
and his art to the edge. The exhibition will also
include recent projects in unexpected media, such as a collaboration with the dance troupe
Pilobolus. Art
Spiegelman's Co-Mix: A Retrospective was organized by Rina
Zavagli-Mattotti for the 2012 Festival International de la Bande Desinée in
Angoulême, France - where
Art Spiegelman was honored with the Grand Prix for lifetime achievement in
illustration - and
is coordinated for The Jewish Museum in New York by Emily Casden, Curatorial
Assistant. The exhibition has traveled to the Library of the Centre Pompidou,
Paris; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the Vancouver Art Gallery. The Jewish
Museum is the only U.S. venue. | |
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