Dave Muller: Connections - Softcover

Muller, Dave; Cruz, Amada; Higgs, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931493103 ISBN 13: 9781931493109

Publisher: Cente for Curatorial Studies, 2003

Synopsis

Inspired by amateur flyers created by fans of indie rock bands, Dave Muller began producing watercolors based on the actual exhibition announcements of artists he admired. Acts of homage, they have never been mere copies. Muller transforms them, always retaining factual information, but subverting and reinterpreting it with wry humor. Simultaneously, Muller has been hosting his much beloved Three Day Weekends--"artist-run, nomadic projects" in which Muller invites artists he likes to exhibit in any space he can find, providing an opening party and refreshments and working collaboratively with each artist to choose pieces for the show. Originally held in his own studio, the TDW has moved around the world with Muller, with events in such cities as London, Tokyo, Athens, and San Francisco, in places as diverse as a freight elevator and a standard gallery. Although they take different forms, Muller's parallel art activities--his drawings and the TDW--are related in terms of the issues they raise: what Muller has referred to as "amorphous authorship," and the identity of artists and how their personas are presented by art world mechanisms and structures.

About this title

About the Author:

Dave Muller was born in San Francisco in 1964. He began exhibiting other artists' work when he was a student at Cal Arts; the first official Three Day Weekend took place in 1995 at his loft in downtown Los Angeles. His work has been shown most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and in galleries in New York and California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cente for Curatorial Studies
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1931493103
• ISBN 13: 9781931493109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78