• September 15, 2008
"Warhol at the Wexner"
An exclusive Andy Warhol show. An exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art. Faculty work on display Downtown. On campus and across the city, Ohio State offers a full slate of fall arts events.
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Sherri Geldin: I saw the exhibition originally in Amsterdam, where it opened last fall, and thought it would be just a brilliant presentation for the Wexner Center on so many levels--partially because we're a multidisciplinary institution and we have a strong program here in film and video as well as in the visual arts. I also just knew that as quirky as our building is, this show was made for it, because the show was designed along the concept of a landscape, so you move from the filmscape to the TV-scape and then running throughout is the section called Cosmos, which is the entire universe of Warhol's world, and I just had a sense that it would look magnificent here--and I have to say, I think it does.
Detlef Weitz: I think we got a really relation to the building, we really liked it from the first moment, because I think it's not a classical exhibition space, it is a landscape already. You know, with its different rows and it's all open and floating. It was, on the other hand, totally difficult to do multimedia show in this space, which was all these glass walls and open structures. And that's one of the reasons that we build it as this super structure. It's worked great in the building. It was really transforming it and work with an exhibition grid and then created to put all the art in, try to find a design which is also possible to realize. For me it's still a wonder what Sherri Geldin and her team did here.
Eva Meyer-Hermann: It's a kind of a scholarly thing, so you can study the world here and people can relate to the things that they know--whether it's students in the fashion industry, interested in media like film, or interested in painting or in politics, so they will find the different departments in this show and I hope that the students will take the opportunity and really study the things here, study Warhol's world. This is the University of Warhol.
Karen Bell: We're incredibly lucky to have Andy Warhol, "Other Voices, Other Rooms," here at The Ohio State University. It’s the only U.S. stop for this particular show, this fresh look at the work of Warhol. And then downtown we have the Columbus Museum of Art: "Objects of Wonder: Treasures from The Ohio State University Archives." There are 120 years worth of memorabilia, so from costumes to cartoons, and athletic memorabilia to artistic works. And The Ohio State University’s Urban Art Space where we will be showing the work of Sid Chavetz, and the work of all of the Department of Art faculty. The more that we work together in our town and on campus the richer the arts environment becomes. We’re all reaching out towards each other and reaching into our institutions to share our work.
The Andy Warhol exhibition that just opened at the Wexner Center has a mark of distinction: The Wexner Center is the only place in the U.S. for Warhol fans to see "Other Voices, Other Rooms."
"I saw the exhibition originally in Amsterdam, where it opened last fall, and thought it would be just a brilliant presentation for the Wexner Center," says Sherri Geldin, director of the Wexner Center.
The multimedia show--which features film, paintings, drawings, prints, audio recording, installations, and archival materials--is the centerpiece of a full slate of Ohio State arts events this fall.
"The more that we work together in our town and on campus, the richer the arts environment becomes," says Karen Bell, associate vice president for arts outreach at Ohio State. "We’re all reaching out towards each other and reaching into our institutions to share our work."
Among the events:
- "Objects of Wonder," a Columbus Museum of Art exhibition that includes Ohio State archival materials such as John Glenn's flight manual, a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite, Woody Hayes' coaching whistle, and a wedding dress made of a World War II-era parachute.
- A faculty exhibition at the OSU Urban Arts Space. The exhibition, which opens Oct. 21, marks the first time since 1990 that Ohio State has been able to present the entire faculty show in one space, at one time.
- A theatre season that begins Oct. 30 with the critically acclaimed play Noises Off.
- The world premier of Necessary Beauty, a production choreographed by Ohio State alumna Bebe Miller. (Oct. 1 - 5 at the Wexner Center.)