Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance at Guggenheim- Bilbao

With the objective of showcasing the unique power of engraving techniques and, at the same time, convey the obsession to visit the past-individually and collectively-the Guggenheim Bilbao presents Hunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, from November 6, 2010, to March 13, 2011. Including more than one hundred works by sixty artists, the exhibition analyses the many ways photographic iconography has been incorporated to art. The exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao shows some recent acquisitions by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation by artists like Marina Abramovi¿, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Roni Horn, Christian Marclay, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Jeff Wall. Likewise, it include works created during the 1960s and 1970s by artists like Andy Warhol, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joan Jonas, Robert Rauschenberg, Martha Rosler and Robert Smithson. Artists responsible for the incorporation of large scale photographs in contemporary art; works that will serve to contextualize the more recent works. Likewise, an important part of the exhibit centers on works created from 2001 and on, by young artists like Walead Beshty, Anne Collier, Rachel Harrison, and Idris Khan; and other artists not present in the New York exhibition, like U.S. artists Slater Bradley, Lucinda Devlin, Lia Halloran, Matt Keegan, Ryan McGinley, Lisa Oppenheim, Aida Ruilova, and Lorna Simpson; Cuban Carlos Garaicoa; Italian Diego Perrone; Australian Tracey Moffatt; or Libanese Walid Raad. Among the artists who will expand their presence to the Bilbao exhibition is: Cuban-American Ana Mendieta, a prominent performance, body art, and land Art artist who died tragically in New York at the age of 36-there will be 6 works representative of her trajectory never before exhibited at the Guggenheim Bilbao. Additionally, Bilbao will also receive a pair of relevant video installations by prominent artists Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno: Sleeptalking (with Sleep by Andy Warhol and the voice of John Giorno), 1998/2010 by Huyghe; and The Dream of a Thing, 2001, by Parreno, will be presented for the first time in a Guggenheim Museum. Hunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance occupies the second level of the Museum. It is divided into five formal and conceptual categories that reflect the different ways in which the participating artists choose to understand and address the past: Appropriation and the Archive; Death, Publicity and Politics; Documentation and Reiteration; Landscape, Architecture and the Passage of Time; and Trauma and the Uncanny. Additionally, a catalog was published on the occasion of this presentation, with texts by exhibition curators Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, and essays by Peggy Phelan, Lisa Saltzman, and Nancy Spector, covers the different ways in which photography has been incorporated into recent art practices and deals with topics such as the passage of time and images, the effect of photography, or memory and commemoration. The exhibition will remain open until March 13, 2011.