ABAD & MoMA and me...

[Marie Kazalia]

ABAD & MoMA
My art is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and it came to be there is a round-about way, via the Book About Death exhibition at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York CIty. The exhibition organizers there confirmed that MoMA collected all 480 artist cards from the show, mine included. MoMA plans to do a re-exhibition.

Other museums and galleries also collected the artist’s cards from the Book About Death exhibition, to re-exhibit the show internationally– including:

Mobius Artists Group
exhibited A Book About Death
at the South End Open Studios,
725 Harrison Avenue,
Boston, Massachusetts, on September 19 – 20, 2009.
The exhibition set up by artist Jane Wang (#414) -Mobius Artists Group, which she collected at A Book About Death’s Opening Night at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York City.

Link to the A Book About Death exhibition archive:
http://abookaboutdeatharchive.blogspot.com/

My artwork is on the project blog, at http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
and on the gallery website along with all the other artist images, at:http://abookaboutdeath.net
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A BOOK ABOUT DEATH : EHF Gallery, NYC

A Book About Death, a project launched in March, opened on September 10, 2009 at The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, 537 Broadway, NYC, NY 10012. 

http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/ 

More than 1000 people attend the exhibition opening night, with a 500-person line waiting an hour to get in; a live web cast showed the happenings in the gallery to a worldwide audience of about 2000 from Beijing to Boston. Why the interest? Because the exhibition and the 500 or so works that comprise A Book About Death is free. It's the only exhibition that you can take with you... for free.

Some of the well known artists who participated: Yoko Ono, Eric Andersen, Caterina Verde, Peter Schuyff, Sol Kjøl, Geoffrey Hendricks and 480 others. Visitors collect the cards from the boxes on the floor and walk out with the entire exhibition. 

All information along with the downloadable Press Release and the posters (also free for download) is on the blog/site: http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com

Several museums have made collections; artists and curators will re-exhibit the show in other countries and use the blog and site as a support structure. The edition is limited to 500, so there are not many around. Installation shots are on the blog and the FaceBook site. 

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH exhibition September 2009

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH takes its inspiration from the late, underground American artist Ray Johnson (1927 - 1995). Ray Johnson’s unbound “book” of the same title was mailed to his New York Correspondence School “students” and included pages in his idiosyncratic style that were funny, sad and ironic “one-page essays” on death. With the A BOOK ABOUT DEATH project, artists are invited to plunge into subject in creating their own pages that score the dramatic final dance of death, contribute by producing an artwork about death then printing it on 500 postcards that will all be in the gallery for visitors to pick up and make their own Book About Death to take away with them.

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH
Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery
537 Broadway
New York City, New York 10012

My artwork is on the project blog, at http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/
and on the gallery website along with all the other artist images, at: http://abookaboutdeath.net