Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat, 10am – 6pm T: (212) 744-7400 Press Information: Stacy Bolton Communications T: radioactive contamination of the area is being measured in milliroentgens/hour (one thousandth of a roentgen) and roentgens/hour. An opening reception will be held at Mitchell-Innes & Nash Chelsea: Thursday, March 30, 6pm-8pm Mitchell-Innes & Nash Chelsea is located at 534 West 26th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. Built during the 1950s, Star City was seen as the futuristic emblem of Russia’s race-to-space and the promise of Communism at the height of the Cold War.
For Jane and Louise Wilson’s 2000 project, “Star City,” the sisters were granted unprecedented access to a high-security Russian cosmonaut training facility located just north of Moscow. Julia Scher, whose work explores monitoring and security in cyberspace, will contribute a work about surveillance. For the large scale photograph “Nacht,” the artist used night-vision technology to produce ominous, militaristic images of contemporary Dusseldorf at night. Thomas Ruff’s photographic manipulations bridge appropriation and reportage and challenge the viewer to distrust the source. Martha Rosler will contribute a work on one of the most notorious events of the Cold War era: the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The show will include a new conceptual work by British artist Adam McEwen, whose work changes the power of propaganda by mixing it with a pop sensibility. Roy Lichtenstein made paintings of an atom bomb filtered through the Pop master’s signature Ben-day dot style, portraying the dark side of the Cold War era. German-born Jana Gunstheimer’s intricate watercolors depict the sinister inner workings of a fictionalized corporation where employees are constantly monitored. The work of Öyvind Fahlstrom frequently commented on the anti-War movement and commercialism in a variety of offbeat ways. As with his recent work on monuments, Durant aims to subvert the meaning of the patriotic symbol. Fallout will include a new Sam Durant piece based on an 8-by-15-foot American flag. Artists in the exhibition are Sam Durant, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Jana Gunstheimer, Roy Lichtenstein, Adam McEwen, Martha Rosler, Thomas Ruff, Julia Scher, and Jane and Louise Wilson. Fallout explores the subtle manifestations of the power struggles inherent to the Cold War: surveillance, propaganda, eavesdropping, intimidation and rumor. This group exhibition includes emerging and established artists whose work addresses issues, images, and themes related to the Cold War and its cultural impact. Mitchell-Innes & Nash will present Fallout: Cold War Culture in its Chelsea space in April 2006.
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