Maren Hassinger to receive the biggest review of next year

The Berkeley Art Gallery in California and the Pacific Film Archives will open next June interdisciplinary artist Maren Hassinger.

“One motivation is based on the need and desire to amplify through the museum platform, an artist who needs more recognition, such as Maren, will influence changes in art history,” Margot Norton, chief curator of Bampfa and collaborator of the exhibition, told Bampfa Artnews In a telephone interview. “But I also thought about what emerging artists are doing and how many artists work in a way I feel they need to understand Mullen’s work. I think her work resonates a lot in the moment.”

The exhibition is regarded as her most comprehensive review to date and will bring together work from her five decades of career, including her early 1970s work. Later on, large-scale works, some of which are being recreated for exhibitions; and performances and workshops, some of which will be staged at Bampfa, while others are represented by photographs and video documents.

“To introduce what Maren did, we wanted to illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of practice and the various forms she created,” Norton said. The purpose of the exhibition was to showcase “this dual nature of Maren as a performer and sculptor, and she talked about how her movement work affected her work in sculpture and vice versa.”

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Norton said her interest in Hassinger’s work dates back to 20 years, after which she met Hassinger’s artwork on major shows such as “Dig Now!” in 2011. At the Hammer Museum and 2022’s “Above Midtown: 1974-now” at the Museum of Modern Art. “I was shocked by how they kept the space,” she said. “Through the manipulation of these materials, she was able to inject space into this obvious energy, [and] How do they affect my body as I navigate through them. These encounters made me realize more about Mullen. ”

Norton said the exhibition’s title, “Life Growing,” reflects Hassinger’s interdisciplinary approach to art production, “her performance and movement practices are at the same time as her sculptural practices.” “We also consider that exhibitions reflect this idea. Mullen’s works often take ready-to-use objects and think through them to change them so that they look natural, or live, sport and grow.”

The exhibition will be based on works from certain specific locations (e.g. like (2008), composed of loving exaggerated plastic bags, interrupting chronology. Norton said that because Hassinger’s early massive work “was destroyed in the past, which was largely due to storage issues,” the exhibition would also be an opportunity to see works that no longer exist. Norton said. Other works that involve branches and recreate for each demonstration will be conducted in partnership with the University of California Botanical Garden, which will help procure organic materials.

The retrospective will also include workshops and performances throughout the run. One of them will be a reimagined version Women’s work (2006), involving participants working with artists knotting and twisting newspapers. This work prompted Hassinger to continue to host these seminars informally for nearly 20 years thereafter. Norton recently participated in a version of the Columbus Museum of Art with her long-time collaborator Senga Nengudi. Norton said in Bampfa that she plans to hold several workshops that will be done, which itself will develop over a six-month period.

Norton said Hassinger’s approach to art production “she doesn’t have to think about the finished product because the process is so important,” Norton said, adding that the show will create for her “the sense of impermanence and the ability to maintain and maintain each other and the ability to care for each other and the simplicity of the world and the world. These are all essential topics.

She added: “It’s incredible how she was able to take everyday things from her surroundings and then instill them with qualities that make them feel intimate and tremendous at the same time.”