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NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery Announces Its Autumn 2017 And Spring 2018 Exhibitions











The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery today announced its upcoming autumn 2017 and spring 2018 exhibitions. In the autumn, 'Inventing Downtown New York: Artist-Run Galleries, 1952–1965' will open to the public on October 4th, bringing to Abu Dhabi a major collection of historical artworks organised by the Grey Art Gallery, New York University’s fine art museum in New York City. Then in the spring of 2018, a landmark, mid-career retrospective of art world duo Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, will feature artworks and site-specific installations not only in the Art Gallery, but also around the NYUAD campus on Saadiyat Island, on February 24th.

Inventing Downtown New York examines the New York art scene between the peak of Abstract Expressionism in the early 1950s and the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism in the early 1960s. During this time, artists helped expand the definition of what constituted downtown Manhattan. Establishing co-operative and artist-run galleries that triggered new aesthetic directions, they also extended eastward the parameters of what was considered "downtown," toward the tenements and industrial buildings of Lower Manhattan. These spaces would help shape the artworks they created and exhibited.

Organised by the Grey Art Gallery, Inventing Downtown is the first major museum exhibition to survey these vital years from the vantage point of fourteen key artist-run galleries. Featuring over 200 paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, and films, the show reveals a scene that was much more diverse than has previously been acknowledged, and will include works by over 50 artists who pursued abstraction and figuration alongside those who ventured into installation and performance art.

Opening on October 4th, the exhibition is curated by Melissa Rachleff, a clinical associate professor in the Department of Art and Art Professions at NYU’s Steinhardt School.

Opening on February 24th, the first exhibition of 2018 will be a mid-career retrospective of the renowned, award-winning artist duo Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. Co-directors of DAAR, an architectural office and artistic residency programme that combines conceptual speculations and architectural interventions, their theory and practice moves between art, architecture and education.

Petti and Hilal’s body of work explores how our experience is shaped by our understanding of "permanence" or "impermanence" in our environment. Their installations bridge architecture and art, examine the social, economic and political consequence of exile and displacement, and delve into public and private impermanent spaces. Visitors can look forward to large-scale installations both outdoors on the NYU Abu Dhabi campus, as well as works of different mediums displayed in the Art Gallery itself.

The exhibition is guest-curated by NYUAD Associate Professor Salwa Mikdadi, who is among the foremost historians of modern art from the Arab world. It is co-curated by Bana Kattan, NYUAD Art Gallery Curator, who recently co-curated 'Invisible Threads'.

Maya Allison, Founding Director and Chief Curator of the NYUAD Art Gallery, said, "Our coming year’s exhibitions reinforce our focus these inaugural years, on the themes that shape our understanding of where we are, culture, environment, and history, as they relate specifically to the UAE and Saadiyat Island."

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