Exotic Ghost Stories for Adults | Hermes Payrhuber, Geoffrey Hendricks, Sur Rodney | An Artist Dialogue Series Event

FREE - The Corner Room doors open at 6:00 p.m. 

Geoffrey Hendricks and Sur Rodney (Sur) join Hermes Payrhuber to discuss his Art in the Corner and Art in the Windows site-specific exhibitions, To the People of New York: Catalogue Raisonné, Exotic Ghost Stories for Adults and Hither Thither (From One Place or Situation to Another), dedicated to art historian and cultural theorist Abby Warburg who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (Library for Cultural Studies). The Library is currently housed at The Warburg Institute in London.

This exhibition is the third part of a trilogy beginning with Staccato dedicated to Daniel Schreber and held at the Austrian General Consulate, followed by Intropoltabrement: the Prophecy of the Lake dedicated to Antonin Artaud and held at BFP Projectspace Gallery.

Hermes Payrhuber is an Austrian born artist, living and working in Bushwick, Brooklyn. His reputation of being an artist's artist has been proven repeatedly over the last years through the acquisition of his work for many critically honored public and private collections.

Payrhuber's work has been part of many exhibitions at museums and galleries in Europe and the United States including the Museum of Contemporary Art/21er Haus Belvedere Museum, Vienna; Sue Scott Gallery, New York; Dallas Museum of Art; Kioskshop Gallery, Berlin; and James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe. He was awarded a grant by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2008. The Museum of Modern Art, PS1 Museum invited Payrhuber to present his book THINGUMMY,  with a hosted book signing by Printed Matter in 2013.

Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks (b.1931) and Sur Rodney (Sur) enigmatically recognized as an animateur in the field of contemporary art (b.1954) planned and staged their Wedding Event (1995) as part of an Al Hansen Happening that included elements adapted from Hansen’s scores for Hi Ho Bibbe (Memorial Variation), Parisol for Marisol, and Silver City for Andy Warhol, together with Horn Piece a score Hansen composed with Allan Kaprow that premiered as part of the celebration at Judson Memorial Church, well known as a place where artists could have the freedom to experiment in their work without fear of censorship.  Hendricks and Sur are involved with archiving , Geoff with his own artworks and his collection of Fluxus objects and related materials, and Sur with his collection of photography, artworks and related materials collected during his renown as codirector of the Gracie Mansion Gallery from 1982-88. As collaborators they were invited to participate in the creation of a Homo Museum, a project launched by EXIT Art (2005), wherein they built a timber framed structure titled A Faggot Monument to Homosexuals Burned in the Middle Ages, with bundles of kindling tagged with the names of homosexuals living and dead, provided by visitors, stacked on it’s roof. At the invitation of AA Bronson they presented and archived the complete catalog of artists books created by Money For Food Press, co-founded by Geoff Hendricks with his late partner Brian Buczak, for Printed Matter (2006) 

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni in 2004, Artist Dialogues Series provide an open forum for understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, gallerists, writers or other artists to converse about art and the potential of exploring new ideas.

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The installation of Hermes Payrhuber exhibitions is made possible through generous support of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and The Federal Chancellery of Austria.